[thelist] Text editor recommendations

Austin Harris austin at dotmail.co.uk
Tue Feb 20 14:53:55 CST 2007


Can I add a request for OSX as well? (Doesn't have to be both.)

Mac Rabbit looks good but it looks like it only does the autocomplete on css stuff, close but no cigar.

Austin

----- "Paul Bennett" <Paul.Bennett at wcc.govt.nz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for a text editor (Win32 - free or paid) that will do the
> following:
> * autocomplete text *without* a keyboard shortcut (I'm talking all
> text in any file, not just a set of predefined functions or elements,
> or only in some file types - Jedit does this via the textcomplete
> plug-in, but the support for it is buggy (sometimes it fires,
> sometimes it doesn't - mostly it doesn't))
> * support recording, editing, and running macro's
> * have some kind of good snippet support
> * has a good load of configurable keyboard shortcuts (I use the
> keyboard as much as possible and don't really use 'drag & drop')
> * supports xhtml, css, js and php natively
> * has multi-line search & replace
> * supports searching across directories and subdirectories (not just
> within open files)



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