Michael Lam wrote:
> 
> There are many programmer's editors for Windows, however the only free ones are
> those that's already available under unix - the VI clan and the Emacs gang.
> 

I just recently downloaded a binary for emacs on Windows.

ftp://ftp.mozart-oz.org/pub/mozart/extras/emacs-20.4.1.exe

(I'm not an emacs person, but 'mozart' apparently requires it)

> I have tried several excellent shareware text editors for Windows and they are
> all excellent and quite cheap.
> 
> GWD Text Editor, UltraEdit, EditPlus 2 are the outstanding choices.
>

Also excellent is the award-winning Note Tab (not Notepad) editor.
They have a lite version for free (still very good) at

http://www.notetab.com

 
> For something free but not as powerful as these three, search for CodePad and
> JediEdit.
> 
> Anyone interested in producing a cross-platform GUI editor using Ruby and
> wxWindows?  If wxPython is such a success, I cannot imagine why we can't make a
> better wxRuby, which I don't see it exist yet...

I have used wxPython a little, and it is pretty neat, although still not
fully stable. But certainly nicer than Tcl/Tk on windows.

I also thought about wxRuby before, but I would not be a good candidate to
actually make it ;-)

I will help out, though, by sponsoring the domain and hosting a website for whoever 
wishes to work on making a wxRuby. Let me know if anyone else is interested.

I am also interested in seeing a version of ruby that does not need helper
programs such as cygwin etc.  What are the chances of that happening?


Guy N. Hurst


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