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I know this is not the place for this but most of you-I guess- use med text editor for os development. I use it for a few years and think that it is the best programming editor I used. But I want more... I mean I want to implement some plugins for med but I need some interface for writing a plug-in for it. (Indeed I havent written a plug-in for any program but whenever I examin its built-in plug-ins, they are nothing but a dll file)

Those are what I want to implement:
- Collapsable and expandable functions.(Like some editors, such as wscite and some visual languages editors)
- A window showing clibboard contents

Any ideas about writing plug-in for med will be appreciated. And also Ill be glad if you write what you want from a programming! editor -especially for os development- that med doesnt have...

Behave yourself well...

I don't know Med at all, but you might want to take a look at UltraEdit, jEdit, Scite, and Kate (Linux) for inspiration. They are pretty decent. (And while lots of people will tell you otherwise, I tell you not to look at vi(m) or Emacs. )

May I add Crimson Editor and Notepad++ to Solars suggestions?

They're pretty decent editors for windows.

@Solar: But nothing beats vim if you want to edit just some small textfile in /etc - something like fstab or hosts. vim loads quick and is rather easy to deal with once one has mastered its commands.

beyond infinity wrote: @Solar: But nothing beats vim if you want to edit just some small textfile in /etc - something like fstab or hosts. vim loads quick and is rather easy to deal with once one has mastered its commands.

I would oppose this, but I think that'd raise another flamewar between the VI lovers and the people that don't use it, and since I'm (sort of) forced to have those each day with somebody I know, I'd rather not.

You can just as well use scite, kate, kedit, gedit, jedit, pico, nano or any of the other hundreds of simple text editors that exist. In theory you could also use notepad but that kind of uses Windows or Wine, which gives it quite a lot of overhead.

beyond infinity wrote: But nothing beats vim if you want to edit just some small textfile in /etc - something like fstab or hosts. vim loads quick and is rather easy to deal with once one has mastered its commands.

Yes... isn't it a shame that they haven't come up with a standard editor that is quick-loading and easy to deal with without having to "master" it first?

(Gentoo Linux defaults to nano, which is a much more sensible thing for the quick-edits you mentioned yet still not what I would recommend to my mother.)

While we're at alternatives, GoldED is a very good product (in fact the best GUI editor I ever used), but only available for AmigaOS.