On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:11:48PM -0400, Sally C. Barry wrote:

Hi All -

I have a question about what editors can be used with Gimp docs.

My main system is Windows ME. Since none of the MS editors (Notepad, Wordpad, MW Word) are suitable for our files, Julien suggested that I download the freeware program, Notepad++. It does the job, but it doesn't really work well with Windows ME. I have to keep re-booting the system, Windows Explorer keeps dying, etc.

Does anyone else use something different that works better?

I run GIMP from a Live Linux CD (Knoppix), although that's not the system I normally have running on my PC.

My preferred editor on Linux is vi (vim). Does anyone know if this works on our XML files? Are there any things to watch out for? Any tips?

Thanks again for your help!

Sally

Sorry, I do not want to start a vi-emacs war but I use emacs (particulary emacs-snapshot) with the nxml-mode package under Linux (but there are working versions for Windoze, working perfectly under win9x) and I find it GREAT to work with xml files. It do a validation process _during_ text tiping and it is able to mark syntax errors with red underlines in real time.

I know of a great GPL java editor: jedit. Full featured but perhaps a bit heavy...

Or scite: a wonderful lightweight python programmers editor (no xml validation)

On 13.09.2006, at 18:11, Sally C. Barry wrote:

Does anyone else use something different that works better?

My preferred editor on Linux is vi (vim). Does anyone know if this works on our XML files? Are there any things to watch out for? Any tips?

Actually there's a very nice vim implementation for Windows.

Get it here: ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim70.exe

Servus, Daniel

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I suggest you to change your OS -_-; as my experience, you can install the Windows XP on Pentium 3 600Mhz machine.(but, of course it needs some tunings. and enough memory, above 196MB)
As the tuning, not much need. just kill some services.

BTW, I used Ultraedit for about 10 years in Windows 98 and XP. but now I use PSPad. 'cause it's free software and has powerful functions. but I can't be sure PSPad can support Windows ME.

and I don't suggest you to try learn other editor on Linux, if you don't know linux well.
I don't know about Linux, but I want to work on Linux, so I installed VMware and Ubuntu in it.
and I tried to learn vi, vim, emacs, gedit, etc.. But those are too difficult. Is it worth that spending time to learn editor's using? I don't think so.

anyway good luck ^^