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Scite is not a bad editor, but the version I have (1.72) crashes on largish ruby files (there's one file that's 65KB it consistently barfs on). Are newer versions any better?
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Scite is not a bad editor, but the version I have (1.72) crashes on largish ruby files (there's one file that's 65KB it consistently barfs on). Are newer versions any better?
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1.72 is approaching 3 years old, since then there have been numerous speed and stability updates to SciTE. So yes, new versions are better. Do they crash less often? In general I would say so, but I never really had any great problem with SciTE crashing.
@pavium's suggestion of using a different editor isn't a bad one; if you live in your text editor having something powerful, extensible and readily available is very nice. Both vim
and emacs
fit that bill and are a nice way to go for cross-platform, being available on nearly every *nix install. Plus they have huge user bases and you can pick a side and start trolling in the great holy war that is emacs
vs vi
.
If you just want to hack out text and don't care to learn emacs
or vim
, there are a bunch of options Textmate is a joy on the mac, with E-Text editor acting similar on Windows. Also for Windows there's Notepad++, Notepad 2 (both being Scintilla based text editors) and Sublime Text. Sublime Text is a promising newcomer. There are others (hundreds of others), but those are my picks.
On Windows, between SciTE, Notepad++ and Notepad2 I prefer Notepad++ but Sublime Text is finding its way into my arsenal. I tend to use vim
/gvim where available on *nix boxes (it just isn't snappy enough on Windows for me).
I just installed version 2.01 on Windows XP, and it's currently able to handle the file that the old version barfed on. I might look at E-Text editor some day, but they're hoping for you to ... pay money for it!1! – Andrew Grimm – 2009-12-08T23:26:36.320
1An editor which chokes on a 65kB file is not a good editor, either. Of course, there may be another explanation. You should consider using a different editor. – pavium – 2009-12-08T06:28:24.317