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  1. Re:JavaScript by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work?

    Wordpad? I'll admit I haven't fired it up since I moved to 7, but really?

    Programmer's Notepad has a portable version.

  2. Re:My first question would be... by chrish · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Open Sources .NET Micro Framework

    Rumour has it that other text editors run on Windows.

    I generally use Programmer's Notepad 2, but there's also EMACS and various other things.

    MonoDevelop, SharpDevelop or VisualStudio Express would probably be better choices for free (as-in-price) C# hacking on Windows though.

  3. Programmers Notepad 2 by korbin_dallas · · Score: 1 · on What Free IDE Do You Use?

    for windows:

    Programmers Notepad 2
    http://www.pnotepad.org/

    and MinGw
    http://www.mingw.org/

    PN2 has tons of features, add your own code clips, tools, etc. It seems to be actively developed. Supports all languages with code completes and syntax highlighting. Its very nice.

    Its also included in winARM toolkit as well if you want to dev arm7/9 embedded systems.

  4. Re:I know nobody wants to admit it... by Trelane · · Score: 1 · on Mobile Carriers Cry "Less Operating Systems"

    What produces Windows applications that are as small as WTL/SDK, and don't "look like Ass" to quote another poster?
    Good question, given that "look like ass" is highly variable from person to person. I think Windows apps look like ass. YMMV.

    Mono is like a third rate knock off of .Net, which seems pointless to me since the original produces bloated applications.
    "Third rate knock off" ignorance aside, it's a cross-platform development framework. Just one more example. I can't vouch for how bloated or not the applications it produces are.

    XUL seems to be some Mozilla internal XML handwaving used by Firefox, and not be much to do with developing small GUI applications.
    For your reading pleasure, a book on programming with XUL. If you know XAML, XUL is what Microsoft was ripping off to create XAML.

    If portable GUI class libraries didn't suck so much, people would use them instead of the non portable Microsoft solutions
    But, if Microsoft didn't have a stranglehold on the market, there'd be even better cross-platform solutions than there are now! You're taking current market conditions and extrapolating out from there which isn't a valid assumption (even if existing cross-platform tookits actually did suck!)

    Looking more at WTL (links here), I am so very glad I'm learning gtkmm instead of it.

  5. Re:Notepad++ by mysticgoat · · Score: 1 · on ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python

    Are there other editors that can put comments in a different font?

    UltraEdit lets you put comments in italics (as well as choice of color, etc-- all the usual syntax highlighting). Not sure if that is what you mean though. It is a text editor, so the actual font can't be controlled from within the file.

    Still, anyone who's thinking about checking out Notepad++ should think about taking a look at UltraEdit. It's got a nice set of tools and is reasonably extensible (macros and templates). I began using it about 10 years ago, and have done quite a bit of web development and a few Perl based projects with it.

    Another one that I've been looking at lately is Programmer's Notepad. It is not as strong as UE in some ways (more limited in regular expression replacements, for instance), but it is FOSS, which would be more compatible with a teaching project I'm thinking about. (The Portland FOSSL: a Free and Open Source Software Laboratory. Intent is to start developing an office workforce that is competent in OOo, Firebird, Tbird, etc... and also provide local businesses with an opportunity to explore the feasibility of going to FOSS products.)

    UltraEdit
    Programmer's Notepad
    Notepad++

  6. Re:Handy alternative to Notepad by Kick+the+Donkey · · Score: 1 · on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web?
    I don't think CE is oss. Free? Wes. Opensource? No.

    I used to use CE all the time, but I grew tired of it throwing up on large files. I switched to Programmers Notepad about a year ago, and never looked back.

  7. Re:A list by Deslack · · Score: 0 · on First Ten Programs on New Install?

    I suggest you try Programmer's Notepad. Especially the 2.0 ones. Bloody fast and very good syntax highlighting.

  8. Re:overengineering the solution by ATMAvatar · · Score: 1 · on The Little Coder's Predicament

    Once they are comfortable with Javascript you can move them on to writing full-feldged Java applets (of course all of this coding can be done in notepad (or your favorite syntax-highlighting text editor))

    For Java, I like to use Programmer's Notepad if I just want a notepad-esqe interface with basic highlighting. However, BlueJ is a decent, albeit quite limited, IDE if you prefer that instead. For any real heavy GUI work, though... you'd want to spring some money for a full-blown IDE.

  9. Programmer's Notepad by CiceroLove · · Score: 1 · on Recommended Text Editors for Win32?

    ...is by far the best and most customizabel editor. I use it everyday. It has syntax coloration and allows yout o store oft used text snippets. I dont' think I have typed a mySQL connect statement in 6 months. Programmer's Notepad