[thelist] Plain text editors

[Tony Crockford]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:47:55 -0500, Walter S. Hemingway 
<walt at medianetwork.ws> wrote:

> Does anyone know of a JavaScript editor that is available? I saw one a
> couple of months ago in a book, but the site was in a foreign language
> and I could never get it to download.
>
> Also is there another simple editor like notepad, but with multi-color
> code highlighting? Other than a program like homesite I mean.


My favorite stripped down text editor that has very nice syntax 
highlighting for a range of languages (including Javascript) is Scite:

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Initially I discovered it as an alternative source code viewer for Opera, 
but it sounds like you might like it.

hth

Tony