Text editor for algorithms

[Sworkhard]

In you opinion what is a good piece of software that is ideal for algorithms and possibly flowcharts. I should have an autoindent and a search feature as a bear minimum. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Sworkhard

If this belongs in general programming, please let me know.

[ERP]

OK I'm not sure I understand what your looking for..

My favorite text editior is Codewright, but that has more to do with the quality of it's brief emulation than anything else (old habits die hard).

I know a lot of people who love SlickEdit.

[Briareus]

LaTeX is good for writing papers, but it is not for the weekend writer. :?

[Sworkhard]

Like...Emacs - get it now?

[rendezvous]

LaTeX is good for writing papers, but it is not for the weekend writer. :?

I wouldn't call LaTeX a text editor.

[Frank]

For plain programming on Windows, not much beats UltraEdit.

[nutball]

For plain programming on Windows, not much beats UltraEdit.

or Emacs :)

[Frank]

For plain programming on Windows, not much beats UltraEdit.

or Emacs :)

Well, the first thing I do when working on a Linux machine is installing jed. It is a useable editor. It uses Wordstar keybindings. It has menu's. It works, for someone who grew up with DOS and Windows.

When I have to work with Emacs, especially through an MS-telnet, I have to leave the building within an hour, just to prevent me from demolishing the irritating computer out of frustration.

[3dcgi]

For plain programming on Windows, not much beats UltraEdit.
Agreed. It's not free, but it was worth purchasing. I considered Visual SlickEdit, but decided on UltraEdit instead. SlickEdit was a nice program however. A lot of people I know like Vim and Emacs, but I never liked either.

[Althornin]

For plain programming on Windows, not much beats UltraEdit.
Agreed. It's not free, but it was worth purchasing. I considered Visual SlickEdit, but decided on UltraEdit instead. SlickEdit was a nice program however. A lot of people I know like Vim and Emacs, but I never liked either.
Give Omnipad a try.
Its free, and quite nice, imo.
http://godfather.arsware.org/OmniPad/OmniPadSetup.exe

And of course, for all your serious editing work, there is vi

[Sworkhard]

Thanks for your responses, I'll try them all and see which one I like best.

[Simon F]

or Emacs :)

Well, the first thing I do when working on a Linux machine is installing jed. It is a useable editor. It uses Wordstar keybindings. It has menu's. It works, for someone who grew up with DOS and Windows.

When I have to work with Emacs, especially through an MS-telnet, I have to leave the building within an hour, just to prevent me from demolishing the irritating computer out of frustration.

I have Emacs configured to behave like "brief". Now that was a great editor.

[Captain Chickenpants]

Emacs has the benefit that it is available for a variety of systems, so if you tend to swap between multiple OS's frequently it is probably the one to go for.
I however stick to PC's running some flavour of windows and my editor of choices is Codewright.

On a related subject my favorite programming related tool has to be Araxis Merge, it is absolutley fab.

CC

[davefb]

HOW MUCH !! £87 for standard and £148 for professional !

never got into emacs, i must admit if i could set it up for brief i'd be v-happy. though i'd admit that recently i've got used to the 'visual-studio' button presses , so i know miss those when using brief emulation :( .

mind you , it's all better than edlin :)

-dave-

i've trialled something called visual-assist.. that's pretty cool as well imho. but i cant justify the price-tag :(

[nutball]

For plain programming on Windows, not much beats UltraEdit.

or Emacs :)

Well, the first thing I do when working on a Linux machine is installing jed.

jed reminds me too much of EDT/TPU, and by implication VMS, which just plain sends shivvvvvers down me spine. :D

[Simon F]

and by implication VMS, which just plain sends shivvvvvers down me spine. :D

AXE THE VAX.

[Frank]

or Emacs :)

Well, the first thing I do when working on a Linux machine is installing jed. It is a useable editor. It uses Wordstar keybindings. It has menu's. It works, for someone who grew up with DOS and Windows.

When I have to work with Emacs, especially through an MS-telnet, I have to leave the building within an hour, just to prevent me from demolishing the irritating computer out of frustration.

I have Emacs configured to behave like "brief". Now that was a great editor.

Agreed. Althoug I probably spent more time programming Brief then writing my programs when I used it. :D

Such things are nice, when you can always use the same setup. As I do remote management for lots of sites, using Windows as well as Linux, it is not very feasible to do that. So I just use UltraEdit/jed now.