Forum OpenACS Development: Re: OpenACS Editors

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Posted by Steve Manning on
I used to use Eclipse with a TCL highlighting plugin. Worked OK but you couldn't help but notice its Java pedigree. I use Komodo at home and since version 3 its been very good. Can still be a bit sluggish at times but the TCL syntax prompting is useful - I like tabbed editors.

I've never really got on with Emacs. Too much like hard work trying to learn all those idiosyncracies. I want to be able to point at a file and open it to edit not wade through loads of panels trying to find things. As for Vi - reminds me too much of the DOS edlin command - whats wrong with just being able to edit things.

If you want a lightweight TCL syntax highlighting editor then FTE http://sourceforge.net/projects/fte/ is quite useful. I use it across our ssh connections when I need to work on a server.

- Steve