On 2013-07-04 05:02, Dave Angel wrote: [snip an excellent list of things to look for in an editor]
Also, - the ability to perform changes in bulk, especially across files. Often, this is done with the ability to record/playback macros, though some editors have multiple insertion/edit cursors; others allow for performing a bulk-change command across the entire file or list of files. - folding (the ability to collapse multiple lines of text down to one line). Especially if there are various ways to do it (manual folding, language-block folding, folding by indentation) - multiple clipboard buffers/registers - multiple bookmarks - the ability to interact with external programs (piping a portion of a file through an external utility) - a good community around it in case you have questions - easy navigation to "important" things in your file (where "important" may vary based on file-type, but may include function definitions, paragraph boundaries, matching paren/bracket/brace/tag, etc) Other nice-to-haves include - split window editing - tabbed windows - Unicode support (including various encodings) - vimgolf.com ;-) > Candidates? > emacs - standard on most OS's, available for Windows from And I'll put in a plug for Vim. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
