Reputation: 11662

Fast, Simple Programmer's Editor

Do any of you have any good links that you could share with me? I am looking for a FAST programmers editor that can open a file containing over 100, 000 lines of code really fast? i'm currently using notepad atm and its taking a good 8 seconds to open a file that is 29000 lines long :(

i would prefer something that is just like notepad.

and yes, i have tried everything that i've found on google and they all either have splash screens, or they are just too slow. i don't want to wait 8 seconds just to add a line or two. or just to check what number the last array is etc...

Upvotes: 14

Answers (12)

Lotus Notes

Reputation: 6363

Notepad++ has code coloring for almost every language.

Dreamweaver is great to use purely as a text editor/FTP tool if you're doing web stuff.

Upvotes: 0

AceMark

Reputation: 729

I am wondering why no one hasn't mentioned SciTE yet... its one of the best code editors, with source code coloring support (don't know if that's the correct term for it), and lots other features...

you can also try Notepad2, such as good replacement for notepad itself, extending it to be good enough as a code/simple programmer's editor...

Upvotes: 1

jussij

Reputation: 10580

I just ran a test of the Zeus programmer's editor and it loaded a 100,000 line C/C++ file in less than a second.

Upvotes: 4

Perpetualcoder

Reputation: 13591

In the linux world GEdit and Kate fits most needs.

Upvotes: 0

Joonas Pulakka

Reputation: 36577

Cream. It's Vim, but with sane keyboard bindings.

Upvotes: 2

David Robles

Reputation: 9617

TextMate if you use Mac

Upvotes: 1

Peter

Reputation: 49008

Nobody mentioned Emacs yet?

I use it on the PC i'm on now without trouble (and the beast has 256Megs of RAM..)

Upvotes: 0

Kamal

Reputation: 2522

check out

Programmer's notepad

Upvotes: 10

PurplePilot

Reputation: 6612

You could always try vi / vim

Upvotes: 9

Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1504092

Have you tried Sublime Text? I just tried it with 100,000 line file where each line contained 'x' * 80, and it only took about a second.

Personally I use jed, which is a lightweight emacs clone, but it's probably not to everyone's taste. (In particular, it doesn't really feel like a Windows application - it doesn't have the normal keyboard shortcuts etc. Once you're used to it, it's very quick though...)

Upvotes: 7