I use gedit myself.
But I believe it’s linux only.
It isn’t very advanced either…
I think about the only times I’ve used Vim have been when I’ve needed to edit my xorg.conf file (can you guess why? Simple, easy to fix problem which can cause X to not work).
But then…
That’s pretty much me. I haven’t failed at learning any languages recently though, I’ve mostly just been typing up schoolwork and stuff (for some things I’ll switch to OpenOffice, but plain text is often enough and has advantages). And I’m pretty sure gedit is linux only. I believe you need some gnome stuff for it, too (hence the ‘g’ at the start of the name).
I have used Emacs a little, too.
I use gedit myself.
But I believe it’s linux only.
Gnome only. Kate and Kwrite are for KDE, and there will be others for other window managers but I don’t know them.
I use notepad++ in windows, and kate in linux. I also use the IDLE editor a lot because I mainly play in python.
Ian
actually… didn’t anyone mention blenders internal text editor? it’s already installed on your system too 
syntax highlighting and all!
.b
One big problem is it doesn’t have access to the system copy/paste buffer so that’s why I would never use it. Plus I’d need multi-line commenting and indenting.
I personally use Textwrangler on OS X, which is like a free BBedit lite:
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
There’s also TextMate and subEthaEdit:
On Windows, UltraEdit seems to have a lot of features:
- Search and replace ?
And then this other “feature” … that either doesn’t bother anyone else … or else (as they just type with one hand … the other always on the mouse 
) … or their using an external text editor instead?
Mike
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Actually it does, use SHIFT-CTR-c/v to copy paste from external apps.
- Multi line commenting, use the standard python “three quotes”
'''
A multi line
comment here
started with 3 single quotes
'''
def junk:
print 'foobar'
"""
Or you can use double quotes if you
prefer to comment that
way instead
"""
Mike
Does “external” apps include the browser? It doesn’t work for me, I’m on linux.
I thought ctrl-c/v is a “windows” thing. (On 'doze, it’s only SHIFT(ctr-v/c) within Blender, there’s no SHIFT required in the external apps.
I have used Linux occasionally and I seem to remember that there really wasn’t any system wide cut/paste keys that all apps used ???
Does ctr-/c/v work within your browser ? (Firefox ?? … other?)
Mike
CTRL-c/v works fine for me within firefox (my browser) and pretty much every other application on my system.
Same as in windows.
CTRL-SHIFT-v does not import any text captured from browser with CTRL-c or CTRL-SHIFT-c into blender.
Anyone know how to make this work on Linux, I would really like to have this capability.
It’s not free or open source, but for Windows I like Text Pad. You can get plugins that will do syntax highlighting for most programming languages, including the Renderman Interface Bitstream (.rib) and Renderman Shader Language (.sl).