I work most of the time on UNIX machines through terminals. We use putty as our terminal client and when we want to edit any files we just copy the file name from putty into Editplus and open it.

When I moved to ubuntu I couldn’t find a replacement for Editplus which allows me to easily edit my files. There are many editors that I found in ubuntu which has FTP and SFTP support but they all open a file tree and they require us to navigate through the file tree to open the files. We used to navigate through various directory structure using putty and edit files from different locations, It is a lot of pain to navigate through different directories in those editors. This is very bad when the FTP connection becomes slow at peak hours.

I was actually looking at the comparison of various text editors and my quest for a Editplus replacement came to an end when I found jedit. It is a wonderful text editor with a host of options and features. It is open source and It is extensible by using various plugins. The plugin which provides support for FTP and SFTP is the FTP plugin. It can be installed by using the “Plugin Manger -> Install” tab. Once the installation is complete it can be found under “Plugins -> FTP”. Select the options “Open from FTP server…” or “Open from secure FTP server” fill in the server details along with user name and password and hit the connect button. Once the connection is established the FTP directory becomes a part of the jEdit VFS and all actions that are valid for a normal file can be performed on the FTP files.

To quickly open files for which the path is known we can use the open file macro found under “Macros -> Files -> Open Path”. We have to prefix the FTP file names with “ftp://user@server:21/path/to/file“.
Example – to open a file .profile use “ftp://user@server:21/~/.profile”

We can even write our own macro to ease this process. Macros are stored under the macros directory under installation directory or settings directory. We can write a simple macro to open a file automatically from a FTP server just by giving the path. This macro releaves us by typing “ftp://user@server:21/” whenever we need to open files from the server. Open a new file in jEdit and type in the following lines

void openPath()
{
String path = Macros.input(view,"Path name:");
if(null==path||path.length()==0){
return;
}
String prefix="ftp://user@server:21";
path=prefix+path;
if(path != null)
jEdit.openFile(view,path);
}

and save it under the macros directory as Quick_FTP.bsh.
Now reload the macros list by selecting “Macros -> Rescan Macros” and our “Quick FTP” macro can be found. Select our macro and it asks for the path name . just give the path name to open it from FTP server. This is just a small how to on writing a Macro and demonstrating the robust features of jEdit. You can find lot of Plugins and Macros at the Community and Plugin site.

JEdit is a simple and cool looking editor designed using Java . The interface is pretty much the same in both Windows and Ubuntu. I would consider it as an alternative for kate in Windows .

To install JEdit in Windows , just download this executable.( 2.6MB)

Installing it Ubuntu is equally simpler .
You can download the .deb package here . (3.4 MB )

If you are a geek ,who prefers to install it thru’ command line, then follow the steps below :

• Append  these two lines to sources.list file found in /etc/apt/

deb   http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jedit ./
deb-src   http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/jedit ./

• Run the following line in Terminal
  sudo apt-get install update
• Now run the following line to install JEdit
  sudo apt-get install jedit
  

As an alternative to all the above said packages , you are also provided with a platform independent JEdit installer .Its in .jar format.
You can get it here.

Additional Links :

Mac OS X package (  6.5 MB)

Slackware package ( 3.4 MB )

Source code (  1.9 MB    )

Screenshots :

The installation process for Jedit(*) on Ubuntu is pretty well documented – as long as you follow option 2 from the jedit download instructions. It’s well worth going for the latest release – as a lot of the plugins don’t work on earlier versions.

But the edit area font looked very uninviting, even with aliasing configured

The fabulous new Inconsolata font looked like the solution. You can install it (or at least the .otf version) as per usual.

But Jedit leans on Java and Java (apparently) requires ttf files, not otf files.

Here’s my workaround which, although a bit hacky, works for me.

1. Install FontForge
2. Download the FontForge sources
3. Open the FontForge source in FontForge
4. Export it as inconsolata.ttf (ignore any warnings)
5. Copy it to the ttf-inconsolata font directory that was created as part of the installation of the ubuntu package, e.g: sudo cp inconsolata.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-inconsolata
6. Now edit fontconfig.properties.src in /etc/java-6-openjdk and add the following four lines

filename.Inconsolata-Regular=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-inconsolata/inconsolata.ttf
filename.Inconsolata-Bold=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-inconsolata/inconsolata.ttf
filename.Inconsolata-Oblique=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-inconsolata/inconsolata.ttf
filename.Inconsolata-BoldOblique=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-inconsolata/inconsolata.ttf

There you are, now you can use Inconsolata in your Jedit.

Was it worth it? For me – being used to Windows and Mac it has made my Ubuntu dev environment much more friendly than it was before. YMMV: screenshots of different fonts on my machine are below.

Bitstream Vera Sans 12

Courier New 12

Deja Vu Mono 12

Inconsolata 12

(*) FWIW – I do my RoR hacking on Textmate on the Mac and recently moved from Aptana to Jedit on Windows (I didn’t need the full-on IDE features). On Ubuntu I was looking for an alternative to Eclipse. I started with Gedit for a while but syntax highlighting was pretty poor and I spent too long chasing down all the different advice available on the interwebs and still not getting anywhere. IMHO Jedit is an altogether simpler option for RoR as it needs only a few tweaks as documented by the likes of Eadz and Xiabozz to get you moving in the right direction.

One of the common requirement I face often when posting text to blog/forum/Wiki etc. is character conversion:

I developed a small JEdit Macro for doing this. This macro can be executed from JEdit menu Macros > Run Other Macro..., or can be installed by copying to: ${user.home}/.jedit/macros/ (later executed from the menu Macros). This macro operates on selected text.

شاید شما هم مثل من برای نوشتن کدهای PHP از ادیتورهای کد مثل Notepad++ یا jEdit استفاده می کنید. شاید هم از نرم افزارهای دیگری همچون Rapid PHP یا Zend Studio استفاده می کنید. همانطور که می دانید رقیب قدرتمند PHP یعنی ASP.NET دارای IDE بسیار قدرتمندی به نام Visual Studio است که تمام نیازهای یک برنامه نویسی حرفه ای را برطرف می کند. برنامه نویسان ASP.NET از این نظر نسبت به برنامه نویسان PHP برتری محسوسی داشتند. تا اینکه شرکت معظم Sun Microsystems چند ماه پیش محیط توسعه نرم افزار خود یعنی NetBeans را به صورت آزمایشی ارائه کرد، در حالی که در نسخه جدید از PHP و Ruby on rails نیز پشتیبانی می کرد. این خبر بسیار خوبی برای برنامه نویسان PHP بود. هم اکنون که NetBeans 6.5 به صورت کامل ارائه شده، می تواند انتخاب مناسبی برای محیط توسعه شما باشد.

NetBeans یک محیط قدرتمند مجتمع توسعه نرم افزار (IDE) کدباز و رایگان است که از طرف شرکت Sun برای توسعه برنامه های جاوا ارائه شده بود که هم اکنون برای توسعه دهندگان PHP نیز مناسب می باشد. با NetBeans می توانید پروژه ی خود را مدیریت کنید، از قابلیت های Code completion، Code refactoring و دیباگر استفاده کنید و پروژه های خود را سریعتر و بهینه تر از قبل توسعه دهید. قالبیت auto complete در NetBeans تنها توابع از پیش تعریف شده در php را پشتیبانی نمی کنید، بلکه توابعی که شما در سرتاسر پروژه تان تعریف کرده اید را نیز شامل می شود.

PHP Code Completion example

NetBeans امکانات بسیار زیادی برای هرچه سریعتر نوشتن کدهای php در اختیار شما قرار می دهد، به طور مثال وقتی می خواهید یک تابع را صدا بزنید، NetBeans در مقداردهی پارامترها به شما بسیار کمک خواهد کرد. یا مثلاً کافیست تایپ کنید func و کلید tab را فشار دهید تا NetBeans قالب پیش فرض بلاک یک تابع را برای شما بسازد. همچنین NetBeans توضیحات تمام توابع داخلی php را از phpdoc به شما نشان می دهد تا مشکلی در استفاده از توابع نداشته باشد. (تقریباً مانند کاری که ویژوال استادیو انجام می دهد)

یکی از نیازهای بسیار حیاتی برنامه نویسان php که در NetBeans برطرف شده Variable Refactoring نام دارد. شاید شما هم قبلاً چنین مشکلی داشتید که از یک متغیر خیلی زیاد در یک فایل استفاده کرده اید و حالا میخواهید نام آن را تغییر بدهید. یا به صورت دستی و یا با استفاده از قابلیت Replace ایدتورهای مختلف مشکل خود را حل کردید. حالا NetBeans به صورت اتوماتیک این کار را برای شما انجام می دهد.

همانطور که گفتم NetBeans از مستندسازی phpdoc پشتیبانی می کند و این امکان، کدنویسی php را برای شما خیلی آسان می کند. NetBeans حتی به شما اجازه می دهد تا مستندسازی های خودتان را داشته باشید (همانند ویژوال استادیو). نشانگر را بالای تابعی که می خواهید مستند کنید قرار دهید و /** را تایپ کنید و کلید Enter را فشار دهید تا NetBeans به صورت اتوماتیک توضیحات را به سبک phpdoc برای شما ایجاد کند.

NetBeans 6.5 پشتیبانی کاملی از خطایابی سمت سرور با استفاده از افزونه XDebug دارد. همچنین در این محیط به جز کدهای php می توانید کدهای CSS, HTML و جاوا اسکریپت نیز به خوبی بنویسید. NetBeans 6.5 محیط توسعه قدرتمندی است که دارای امکانات پیشرفته دیگری نیز هست که ما قصد نداریم در این مقاله به آن ها بپردازیم.

اگر در حال حاضر پروژه های بزرگ PHP انجام می دهید و محیط توسعه ای همچون NetBeans در اختیار ندارید، پیشنهاد می کنم حتماً آن را امتحان کنید. برای کدنویسی های ساده و کوچک NetBeans توصیه نمی شود.

اطلاعات بیشتر در مورد پشتیبانی PHP در NetBeans

متاسفانه دانلود مستقیم NetBeans برای ایرانی های داخل کشور مقدور نیست، دوست خوبم سالار خلیل زاده نحوه دریافت NetBeans 6.5 را برای ایرانی ها در اینجا توضیح داده است.

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JEdit is my favorite text editor. And today I was pleased to find some powerful scripting capability in its search and replace functionality. Basically I wanted to enclose a RegularExpression pattern with:

<a href="">PATTERN</a>

The Search and Replace dialog provided an option Return value of a BeanShell snippet. So whatever RegularExpression pattern grouping I provided, I was able to access them using the BeanShell variable _1 to _9. So my final replace statement became:

"<a href\"\">" + _1 + "</a>"

Cool solution to a simple problem.

Oggi vi voglio presentare alcune semplici tecniche per l’estrazione di stringhe da un testo, attività molto utilizzata nell’ambito dell’information retrieval, ovvero l’estrazione e la classificazione automatica di grosse moli di testo.

Per le prove utilizzeremo il sempre ottimo JEdit; in linea di principio gli stessi concetti si possono applicare [...]

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Όσοι από εσάς χρησιμοποιούν το jEdit στο Leopard, ίσως διαπίστωσαν ότι μετά την τελευταία αναβάθμιση της Java (Java Update 2) από την Apple, το jEdit αποτυγχάνει να εκκινήσει.

Το πρόβλημα αυτό διορθώνεται με τις εξής ενέργειες:

1. Εντοπίζουμε στο Finder το jEdit.app
2. Κάνουμε δεξί κλικ στο εικονίδιο του jEdit και επιλέγουμε τη λειτουργία ‘Show Package Contents’
3. Στο φάκελο που εμφανίζεται, ανοίγουμε με κάποιον editor το αρχείο ‘Contents/Info.plist’
4. Εντοπίζουμε τη γραμμή με την επιλογή JVMVersion, αντικαθιστούμε την τιμή ‘1.5+’ με την τιμή ‘1.6+’ και σώζουμε την αλλαγή.
5. Τέλος, σβήνουμε το αρχείο ‘Contents/Resources/Java/jars/MacOS.jar’

Hello everyone,

It seemed appropriate to start off this blog with a hello world post. So… hello… world. I am a PHP programmer / Web Designer / Server Maintainer / indentured servant at the Wonderful Acadiana Educational Endowment. We are a nonprofit group supporting education throughout the U.S. by hosting a nonprofit bookstore, http://booksxyz.com. We also serve the Acadiana area (where we are located) with http://cajunfun.com and http://ultoday.com.

I was encouraged to start this blog in an effort to record my issues with various platforms on the web so I won’t forget and so others find them. I work in straight PHP 5, the Zend Framework, and ezPublish for the sites I work on, and I hope that in reading this, you resolve whatever issues I might be able to help with.

Being that this is a hello world post… I’ll start by making some short notes on my recent activities as a programmer.
ezPublish: All in all, and no offense to it’s developers, but I do not like ezP. To be fair, I had little experience with the underlying framework, ezComponents, going in. However, the documentation is poor, and the templating engine is… in a word… bad. It also creates an enormous database (this is not directly an issue, lots of software needs a big database, but in this case… it is difficult to find what you are looking for in that thing).

Zend FrameWork: I started working with ZF about two weeks ago. I love it.  I have been working in PHP about two years, and I still don’t know the deep internals of the language, but this was no limitation with ZF. The documentation is superb, and, most importantly, updated regularly. It has a fluid API and just generally makes sense.

Jedit: Last thing I want to comment on is Jedit. Again, I am in love. Up until I started work with the zend framework, I used putty+vim to do all the editing on the site. A good friend of mine recommended Jedit when he found out I was working in ZF, so i thought I’d give it a shot.
My plugins are as follows: FTP, ssh console, CSSeditor, Editor Scheme Selector(just for ease on the eyes), and PHPParser Plugin. Using the setup I have, jEdit is essentially an IDE allowing me to work remotely on the server with multiple files without all the annoyance of xMing tunneling (which I have found to be unreliable).
It has code folding, a full featured file browser (which supports remote directory listing), and a really effecient docking system. Plugins are easy to install and integrate… it just generally rocks.

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UPDATE: Hoje eu ja voltei a utilizar o Gedit, Se você usa linux não deixe de conferir meus posts sobre o gedit:

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Eu adorei utilizar o Gedit como meu editor de texto favorito durante o ultimo ano, ele foi realmente muito útil, inclusive eu estava mantendo um plugin muito útil para uso com ele. Porém alguma força maior fez com que meu pequenino plugin parasse de funcionar, ainda não sei a causa real mas parece ser relacionado aos url-handlers, eu não consegui mais fazê-los funcionar assim como funcionavam na versão anterior do Ubuntu e Firefox. Algumas cabeçadas depois e sem muito tempo para tentar resolver o problema, resolvi dar uma pequena busca por outro editor de texto para Programadores…. em 99% das buscas as respostas são : TextMate, Vim, Emacs.

Bem, como eu ainda não sou um “Feliz proprietário” de um computador Mac, não tenho a possibilidade de utilizar o “Número 1″, restando os dois últimos, que para os felizardos usuários do Mac também estão disponíveis como opção para eles . Eles são realmente ótimos editores de texto, eu uso o Vim com certa tranquilidade para editar arquivos de configuração, e já domei muitas de suas funcionalidades, por outro lado o Emacs eu dei apenas algumas testadas algum tempo atráz, editor muito bom, com features de code completion assim como o Vim você consegue habilitar tanto para Python quanto para Ruby, que são as duas linguagens que eu tenho trabalhado ultimamente.

Tudo ótimo tudo muito bonito, uma gama bastante grande de plugins disponíveis para ambos, e a personalização do Vim é incontestável. (uma dica para os que estão começando em se arrepiam ao terem que entrar no vi/vim/gvim… existe uma configuração chamada Cream que facilita 100% o uso do editor para novatos, sem perder a flexibilidade). Porém o Vim e o Emacs não são os Editores que eu procurava. eu queria algo que fosse poderoso e ao mesmo tempo simples assim como o Gedit.

Coincidência ou não acabei encontrando o jEdit. Não , não é erro de grafia, é jEdit mesmo, em português a pronúncia é a mesma do Gedit, mas na verdade o jEdit trata-se de um editor para programadores que foi escrito em Java, portanto ele é totalmente multiplataforma, testado por mim mesmo em um computador com Windows e no meu computador com o Ubuntu (Hardy).

Feitos alguns testes e… o melhor editor que eu já usei até hoje!

Algumas Features:

• Multiplataforma
• Filebrowser
• Personalizável por linguagem
• Fácil adição de suporte a novas linguages
• Vasta quantidade de plugins disponíveis
• Macros
• Console integrado [plugin]
• Integração com softwares de Versionamento (SVN, CVS, etc) [plugin]
• Busca por expressões regulares
• Code Complete [plugin]
• Text Autocomplete [plugin]
• Diff [plugin]
• Task List (TODO List similar ao plugin mantido por mim do Gedit) [plugin]
• SuperAbbrevs (Code Snippets) [plugin]
• Tabbed Documents(e outros modos inteligentes de alternar arquivos) [plugin]
• Code Folding
• Sintax Highlight bastante completo e personalizável
• e muito mais

Realmente vale a pena você instalar e testar em seu computador… afinal não custa nada, é OpenSource.

Pequeninos screenshots:

Muito em breve estarei postando mais a respeito deste fantástico editor e algumas de suas features, espero que todos apreciem.

Tenho certeza que não sou o único desenvolvedor PHP que vive com esta pergunta no fundo da alma.

Abaixo vou colocar uma lista com algumas das IDEs que já testei, outras que baixei mas não usei ainda, e alguns editores, agradeço se vocês comentarem dizendo quais IDEs usam e seus motivos (pontos fortes e fracos)

Zend Studio – ótima interface, PHPDoc embutido, hide/expand os métodos, mas o FTP é bem ruim…

HTML-Kit – Editor muito leve, FTP ótimo, muitas opções de configurações e plugins, não te deixa na mão, mas peca na interface. Adicionando vários plugins ele fica bem legal, e bem pesado também.

jEdit – Simples demais, passei uns 10 minutos usando, mas achei que faltava muita coisa, me parecia estar usando a calculadora básica do windows, mas sem o botão de “scientific mode”.

Aptana Studio – visual cool, apesar da minha primeira experiência com ele foi de cara uma tela de erro do windows com relação ao Java, é muito interessante, com recursos similares ao Zend Studio. Uma feature legal é um grid com as tarefas que você pode adicionar e depois validando como realizada ou não. Isso evita você ficar perdido no projeto.

PHPed – usei há muito tempo atrás, teve várias mudanças, será que alguém é a favor?

Não mencionei aqui IDE nem editores pra MAC, I´m sorry.

Conto com a participação de vocês para dizer quais IDEs usam e porquê.

No se si por la tarjeta gráfica o por mi monitor, pero ninguna distribución de Linux me pilla la resolución adecuada, y configura el monitor a 800×600, lo que no hace, precisamente, cómodo el trabajo.

Como no tengo tiempo (ni tampoco ganas) de ponerme a arreglarlo en este momento, me he instalado una Windows XP (aunque no se qué es mas incómodo, la verdad) para pasar estos días entre que lo intento arreglar y no.

Lo primero que hice después de pegarme cuarenta minutos larguísimos de instalación, fue meterle unas cuantas aplicaciones para hacerme la convivencia con Windows menos tediosa. Se me ha ocurrido hacer una lista con todas las aplicaciones que uso a diario, y una alternativa. No se si es un meme o no, pero puede resultar útil a quién como yo, se vea obligado por una razón u otra a usar Windows. Menos mal que me queda mi fiel portátil, que si no…

• Mozilla Firefox (¿hay alguna alternativa ?)
• Pidgin: Cliente de messenger multiprotocolo bastante conocido, bonito y estable. Antes se llama Gaim.
• IntelliJ Idea: Entorno de desarrollo de Java. Me enamoré de él nada mas usarlo. También se puede usar Eclipse, de código abierto, y también muy, muy potente.
• Vim. ¿Qué puedo decir del que en mi opinión es el mejor editor de texto que hay?. Lo uso para tomar apuntes en Java, editar código PHP, Ruby on Rails, e incluso LaTEX, ganando una barbaridad de tiempo gracias a sus macros y scripts, con lo que me evito repetir siempre las mismas acciones. Se puede hacer todo y mas, y además lo complemento con los siguientes scripts:
  • NERDTree: Un explorador de textos muy simple de usar, que permite abrir los archivos en pestañas, y muchas cosas mas.
  • NERDCommenter: mediante unos simples comandos, permite comentar y descomentar bloques de código en una infinidad de lenguajes.
  • Vim-Latex: Entorno de desarrollo en LaTEX.
  • VJDE: Entorno de desarrollo en Java.
  • SnippetsEmu: El plugin que mas me gusta de todos los que tengo. Arma nuestro Vim con unos Snippets muy similares a los de Textmate o E Text Editor. hace, por ejemplo, que si ponemos en un archivo de código java, “main” y pulsamos la tecla de tabulador, obtendremos automáticamente:
public static void main (String args [])
{
}
    Ya os imaginaréis la cantidad de tiempo que nos ahorra este pequeño plugin.

  ¿Alternativas a Vim? JEdit es una buena aplicación: potente, extensible, eficiente, multiplataforma…Pero está hecho en Java, y la Máquina Virtual consume bastantes recursos, así que si tenéis una máquina antigua, no es una buena idea. SciTE también es multiplataforma y se puede extender bastante, pero es mas limitado que los dos anteriores. Otra posibilidad sería Editra, un editor, también multiplataforma bastante reciente y que está bastante verde, pero tiene muy buena pinta. Espero que sigan desarrollándolo.

• VLC: de lo mejorcito para reproducir archivos multimedia. Libre y multiplataforma.
• OpenOffice.org: Suite ofimática compatible con los archivos de Microsoft Office. Libre,
  multiplataforma y potentísimo. Me encanta.
• Audacity: El famosísimo editor de audio opensource y multiplataforma que tanta gente utiliza para grabar y editar podcasts. ¡¡Ostras mi podcast!! Qué cabeza la mía…debería ponerlo al día.

Bueno, pues así son las cosas y así se las hemos contado. Espero aumentar mi ritmo de actualización en estos próximos días

Por muitos adorado, o TextMate pode não ser para todos. Há alternativas gratuitas que podem muito bem fazer o mesmo trabalho e que podem muito bem ser inspiradoras:

• Smultron – O editor com o melhor ícone do MacOSX, para além disso está recheado de funcionalidades. Desta lista é aquele parece mais familiar para quem migrar do Textmate.
• Vim – Um must para todos os geeks do unix. Se acha o rato a pior invenção do século XX, então este é o editor de eleição. É um verdadeiro canivete Suíço.
• TextWrangler – Esta é a versão pobre do BBedit (pago) que é tão louvado por tantos utilizadores. Apesar disso é muito completo e integra-se muito bem com outras aplicações como por exemplo o Cyberduck(FTP).
• jEdit – Escrito em Java tem muitas funcionalidades interessantes, como os painéis simultâneos. Para quem quiser manter-se num mesmo ambiente entre Linux, OSX, Win, (e não está para aprender a trabalhar com o Vim) esta é escolha lógica. Contudo, ser em Java, fá-lo parecer um pouco lento e pesado.

For months I’ve been on the windows-based text-editor trail. To no avail I’ve finally run into a great product. While this product is commercial, its very much in beta. Welcome to E. I never thought I’d ever see an editor like this hit the streets.

E is a collaborative text editor taylored for the windows platform. While there are plans for *nix versions, windows is the only platform it runs on.

If you want to get your hands on this editor, just simply head over to www.e-texteditor.com.

An Intergrated Development Environment Gets in the Way

I’ve been developing websites for quite some time. In that time I have grown accustomed to the likes of Dreamweaver and Golive for designing and publishing my web projects. While these IDE’s are great for what they accomplish, I always felt frustrated and hindered.

Overtime I began to cut back on the features required to get the job done. I realized that a boat load of features didn’t really help improve anything. As of late I’m back to the basics, a simple text editor. Its interesting as your career progresses you end up needing less to accomplish the same tasks.

Welcome to E

When I heard about this apparent Textmate port to windows, I was ecstatic yet skeptical. There were a lot of things that I’ve come to expect especially in the breath of comparisons to textmate. Needless to say my expectations were somewhat met.

Using E

The user interface is simply elegant and this alone lets you get straight to coding. While I’ve grown use to having 20+ toolbar icons staring at me daily, I certainly don’t miss them.

Using E was fairly effortless. However, the beta at the time was lacking and very buggy. Syntax coloring was a bit skiddish. Overall this editor was destined to be great with rough edges. Aside from all the problems, I still got things done.

E touts a strong adherence to collaboration and sharing code. In E you can set milestones and see updates by other developers as they happen. Code and syntax coloring is a joy to modify as well. Having been a user of jEdit (yet another text editor) I found E’s ability color my syntax refreshingly flexible.

Project management is dead simple. Open a directory as a project and go to it. The whole idea of E is to bring a light weight effective editor to table. Sure their is a liscense requirement to continue using it but don’t fret. The developers of E have made it free until its out of beta.

In part two of this series I will be touching on bundles and code snippets/abbreviations.