I just killed my laptop and had to continue the work on
my pegg. I realized that i've never been able to find a
decent text editor. Until now i have settled with morhed
and cygnus ed, but since i've only used these editors
for simpler tasks during the last year and a half,
productivity is poor. Franky, they also lack features
supported in even the most compact editors for other
operating systems.

My questions to all of you are which editors you use?
Does there exist any good half-decent editor for morphos
(I wouldn't put morphed in this category)?

I've grown very found of the editor Scite - a simple
editor based on the text engine scintilla wich is built
with gtk1. Due recent advances in gtk related
development (gtk wrapper and webcore) i would like to
urge developer to glance at this simple but most powerful
editor. It would make a nice addition to the growing
collection of application for MorphOS. Perhaps worth
starting a bounty?

I agree. I'm using CED for programming/editing texts, but that's a lot less than needed nowadays. (I never liked MorphEd, IMO it doesn't work the way a text editor should work.) But i'd prefer a MUI based, syntax-highlighting text editor, written from scratch for MOS. It's not that hard. I eved had plans to do such one for myself, but as usual, lack of time and lazyness prevented me to do so.

So such a bounty would be most welcomed!

Well, GoldED or even MorphED do their job great. They have everything I need for a text editor.

I use BlacksEditor in MorphOS. My favorite for coding.

Didn't somebody port VIM to MorphOS? I'm pretty sure. So why not use VIM? There's no better editor than VIM. I used a lot of editors, and still occasionally try some, but I end up with VIM each and every time.

Try also eNote from Aminet..

I'm using pEditor (from Aminet).

Does BlackEditor support syntax-highlighting ?

Leo.

@Leo

Nope.

There are a few suggested editors I've never heard
of. I'll try them out.

As for VIM, i don't rely know if i should comment on
that ;) VIM are made by programmers who think
"the more complex the better". VIM is good if you
have used VI since the beginning of time. Otherwise
it's a pain in the ass. I my self have been forced to
use VI (and sometimes VIM) quite a regularly since i
work a lot with unix environment witch lack other
editors.

BTW -- I painted a set of toolbar images for pEditor

If anyone is interested, I'll upload them tonight when I get home.

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Huh, that was a serious suggestion. After all, you weren't asking for a easy-to-learn editor but a productive one. VIM is the most productive editor I've ever used. I do agree that you can't appreciate it until you have learned a dozen or two keystrokes, but I find them very intuitive.

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You're mixing this up with Emacs ;)

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Certainly not, the first time I used VI I was glad to be back at an editor where the keys I typed actually appeared on the screen. I wouldn't have dreamed that some years later I wouldn't want to type without it.

But editor preferences are very subjective anyway ...

@ Klesterjr

I also use pEditorfor daily simple tasks and like it,only annoying
thing was this toolbar ... i.e. please upload your toolbar
it.

The problem I have with MorphEd, and most text eds, is that they don't do scroll wrap on sentences, as most are designed for programming- do any of the eds people have mentioned to wrapping?

- Ants

There is nothing better than vi(m). You can't be faster ;). And it's always nice to see others looking at your fingers, if you are a vi wizard. I even use all my unix shells in vi mode and my irc client, too ;).

Bad thing is, that there is no vi plugin for outlook and
I have to use outlook here at work.

And btw, vim is an amiga application ported to unix/windows, so you shoukd like it ;).

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HERE it is!

-Ken