Unicode markup editor
Posted May 06, 2004 in Markup.
I have always used ISO-8859-1, out of ignorance rather than choice. After reading some of the interesting stuff that Sam Ruby has to say about character encoding, I feel woefully ill-informed.
I'd like to experiment with Unicode, but I lack a markup editor that supports it (with the exception of Dreamweaver MX 2004, which I dislike). Can anyone recommend a basic markup editor that properly respects Unicode? It would need to have the following features:
- Windows platform
- Color syntax highlighting (markup languages, CSS, and PHP)
- Find and replace
- Multiple undo
- Multiple documents (perhaps with tabs)
- Some sort of file tree would be nice
What I certainly don't need is any kind of WYSIWYG crap. I like to hand code everything, all sorts of time-saving features will just get in the way. Any recommendations?
Comments
My personal favorite is Code-Genie, www.code-genie.com, but a free Notepad2 also works well, from what I hear.
Posted by Basil Crow on May 06, 2004.
Thank you for that suggestion, Basil. I've downloaded it and at first glance, it looks pretty good.
Keep the suggestions coming!
Posted by Simon Jessey on May 07, 2004.
I've been playing around with Notepad 2 as well. It is exactly the kind of thing I need, except that (like Windows Notepad) it is a single document interface. If it allowed multiple documents, with some sort of tabbed access, it would be perfect.
Posted by Simon Jessey on May 07, 2004.
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html
Scintilla Text Editor (SciTE) is a very nice small-footprint source code editor.
http://www.sharemation.com/8alex8/pub/pic/scite.png
Posted by @leX on May 07, 2004.
SciTE. continue
For default UTF8 add to X:\Documents and Settings\USER-NAME\SciTEUser.properties file line
code.page=65001.
More Links:
Why SciTE? http://www.314bits.com/index.php?sec=software&subsec=texteditor
SciTE for Windows Scripters http://dev.remotenetworktechnology.com/SciTE/
PHP Documentation - Extended CHM Format for SciTE http://il.php.net/docs-echm.php
http://www.burgaud.com/index.php/US/SciTE
SciTE: Scintilla Text Editor with Extensions http://gisdeveloper.tripod.com/scite.html
Context Menu Extension for SciTE http://www.spaceblue.com/codedetail.php?CodeID=9
SciTE Documentation http://www.scintilla.org/SciTEDoc.html
SciTE Lua Scripting Extension http://www.scintilla.org/SciTELua.html
Posted by @leX on May 08, 2004.