I was in the same position as you. At the time (6-9 months ago) I emailed the authors of UltraEdit and TextPad to ask about porting to linux. Both of them said that it is a possibility they are considering. However nothing's happened yet.
I've tried Nedit several times in the last two years and every time I end up with a bug where the Ctrl-?? hotkeys cease to function and start dropping odd xml type tags into the document. It does this intermittently but always eventually. Killed it for me.
Now I use xemacs - I just wish it would colour highlight more languages (jsp, xml, xslt in particular).
J2EE is nice - certainly an improvement over traditional languages. I'm still nervous about the overhead of the jvm, but I haven't found anywhere where it's been a real problem.
Regarding portability, we once had a piece of middleware that was a bit of a resource hog and it needed to be moved around a lot. We moved it at various stages between NT, 2k, Solaris and Linux with no changes required or problems whatsoever. Very impressive.
FWIW I'm liking the XML/XSLT more and more. JSP is sooo '99;-).
Rich Black: I think it's one of those things where our corporate rule is that we do not open up our code, and we do not have open code, and we will not do that.
Well that's it for me - Nvidia will not be getting another cent out of me. I'll go with a company with a bit of foresight and respect for their customers.
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I was in the same position as you. At the time (6-9 months ago) I emailed the authors of UltraEdit and TextPad to ask about porting to linux. Both of them said that it is a possibility they are considering. However nothing's happened yet.
I've tried Nedit several times in the last two years and every time I end up with a bug where the Ctrl-?? hotkeys cease to function and start dropping odd xml type tags into the document. It does this intermittently but always eventually. Killed it for me.
Now I use xemacs - I just wish it would colour highlight more languages (jsp, xml, xslt in particular).
J2EE is nice - certainly an improvement over traditional languages. I'm still nervous about the overhead of the jvm, but I haven't found anywhere where it's been a real problem.
Regarding portability, we once had a piece of middleware that was a bit of a resource hog and it needed to be moved around a lot. We moved it at various stages between NT, 2k, Solaris and Linux with no changes required or problems whatsoever. Very impressive.
FWIW I'm liking the XML/XSLT more and more. JSP is sooo '99 ;-).
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Received an email from Eric @ Butter Dish Studios and he indicated that Real, MPEG & Quicktime versions may be available on Monday.
Well that's it for me - Nvidia will not be getting another cent out of me. I'll go with a company with a bit of foresight and respect for their customers.