Friday, December 07, 2007

Awesome Text Editor for Linux and Windoze

Hey all,

Back again, to bring you news of an awesome program I found. (Okay, someone on Ubuntu Forums technically found it, but whatever...)
I've been looking for a good lightweight programming editor lately, but was unable to find anything good. I posted on the aforementioned forums, and (as I should have expected) a VI(M)/Emacs war nearly started right away. I averted it, and followed up on the third link, and it was exactly what I was looking for. ("lightweight, but more Dreamweaver than Nano")

Anyhow, the program is called Geany, and although I haven't really used it yet, I am quite impressed with its features. It has syntax highlighting for a fair few languages, compiler integration, built-in terminal, program member recognition with jump-to (updated on save), etc. It's also pluggable, although most of the plugins that have been created already ship with it, and there aren't too many.

If you're looking for a program with an IDE's features, but a text editor's feel, I would strongly recommend Geany. Check the link above for screenshots.

~ The Geek
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