In this lesson we were asked to evaluate several text editors. Â I was a little biased going into it as one of the options was the program I used to use when I coded back in college.
In the lesson I took a look at the following 3 text editors.
After spending a little time playing and researching I came to understand–and confirm my bias–that notepad++ was the far superior player. Â First it seems that “ConText” is no longer being actively developed. Â The last stable version is almost 5 years old. “E Text Editor” on the other hand has some interesting features, but is not as open source as I would like from an editor.
There are a few things I really like about Notepad++. Â First is there open source policy. Â Notepad++ operates under a “GNU General Public License” making their software truly open and free. Â Second I like how light weight the app is. Â It is small simple and gets the job done. Third are the features. Â While there are too many to list here I really dug the tabbed documents, and the way it sorts and organizes html files.
November 17, 2013 at 2:17 pm
I have tried notepad++ but have not been able to get the annotations that are shown in your screen shots.
I have plain text, without any of the html groupings that are shown.
Whilst I give that a plain text editor would be good, I am erring towards eclipse with a small number of plugins that are readily available
November 17, 2013 at 9:02 pm
Try saving your document as a .html file. The annotations should show up then.