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I have yet to find an editor which suits my needs and is simple to use.
Features I want from it:
Auto indent,
Smart indent ( adding an extra tab inside if brackets etc),
auto complete - does not matter.
preferabely with addons and easy to add extra languages,
If possible: Intel syntax for assembly highlighting.
I know of vim and Emacs, but I find both of them horrible when trying to look trough alot of code.
I do not ask what you think is the best. But which would fit my demands best.
How exactly are they horrible in this respect?Quote:
Originally Posted by Troubled
You might also want to list out the other editors that you have tried but which you have rejected.
I don't like the way it works, and you can consider them fitting under the 'rejected' category.
Other than that we have pspad and notepad ++ in that category.
Have you looked into eclipse? It's not an editor per se but an IDE to be precise. It has most of the features you want i think.
Have used it for php some time ago.
It does the trick but is to heavy weight, takes long to start etc.
EDIT: Found one, Scite is it called. Perfect.
Can be closed.
I find it strange that you would say vi is a horrible editor when looking through a lot of code. I find it just the opposite.
At any rate, you can try NetBeans. It is another IDE (like Eclipse) which seems to have a lot of functionality.
I don't think you'll find an editor that has all those features, isn't heavy-weight, and already comes with lots of extensions other than vim and emacs. Notepad++ has a mechanism for autocomplete, but again - you'll need to spend considerable time getting things to work just the way you want - you might as well just learn to push tab yourself after a curly brace.
edit: CodeBlocks and NetBeans may be lighter-weight than Eclipse, but I would still consider think heavy-weight if you just want text-editing features.