good free code editor?

James

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Aug 5, 2008, 6:18:06 PM8/5/08

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Hi,
I'm looking for a good, free, code editor to help me get through a project
that involves looking at and figuring out whats going on with a dozen or so
wsh vbscripts, some of which are very long. I'm really minimally looking for
the following 2 features: color coding for syntax and the ability to
expand/collapse sections of code (like subs, functions, classes, or even
do/while loops etc..). Intellisense would be great but not required as I'm
mostly reading existing scripts and doing only a little bit of actual code
mods.

any recommendations? google results show many many options so I'm hoping a
few recommendations can save me a bunch of time!

thanks!

mayayana

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Aug 5, 2008, 9:34:23 PM8/5/08

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Good. Free. Hardcore, but "intellisense"
not required.... Sounds like a job for
open source. Maybe Emacs? There's a
Windows version of that. I don't think
you'll find anything else that's "good and free",
other than open source.

Michael Harris

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Aug 5, 2008, 9:45:41 PM8/5/08

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www.pspad.com

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G. Schnitzelberger

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Aug 6, 2008, 4:53:49 AM8/6/08

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Notepad++, the best ANSI Editor ever:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/de/site.htm

It does also Intellisense with Add-Ons for common languages.

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G. Schnitzelberger

Jason

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Aug 6, 2008, 3:10:02 PM8/6/08

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Personally, I'm partial to SciTE
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

Andrew Mishechkin

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Aug 11, 2008, 8:19:13 AM8/11/08

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> Notepad++, the best ANSI Editor ever:
> http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/de/site.htm

I used Notepad++, but pspad IMHO is better. Now I write my scripts in pspad.
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TDM

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Aug 11, 2008, 10:36:57 PM8/11/08

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"James" <no...@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:eY5yjk09...@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

My vote, likely not shared by many others, goes
to VIM(www.vim.org). It's a love hate relationship based
on VI. No intellisense, but there is no better way to
get more done in a shorter time.

TDM

Tim Munro

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Aug 12, 2008, 8:28:25 AM8/12/08

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I find Textpad and excellent editor. Does syntax colouring as well. You can
get extract file fomr the web (Kixtart Powershell etc.)

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LJB

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Aug 12, 2008, 2:37:41 PM8/12/08

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"Tim Munro" <Exce...@Liamtoh.moc> wrote in message
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I too use TextPad but its not free yet it is inexpensive. Is TextPad from
http://www.textpad.com/ the same as one from Kixtart?

Another option is to use the VBA editor from Excel. Here is a link to a
script that adds that ability to Explorer's right-click menu
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript/msg/47eae3bddee0f47e.
I've used it for years and almost always use it to get the proper case on
all my keywords and to format the vbs nicely.

James

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Sep 3, 2008, 5:41:09 PM9/3/08

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Hello all,
just thought I would post this back here as I just recently came accross it.
I've been using notepad++ without any intellisense add-on and its been good.
However I just downloaded this:

http://www.vbsedit.com/default.asp

and although I have not really used it yet, at first glance of the gui and
features this thing looks truly awesome for wsh vbscript writting/editing.
There is a free and a pay version. It has intellisense built in, an object
browser, debugging features, etc... most of the stuff I remember really
needing when messing around with Visual Studio on some VB.Net stuff.... but
for vbscript in this case of course.

the project I'm working on has grown, since my last post, into me doing more
writting than I first thought so intellisense moved from 'would be nice' to
required.

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James

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Sep 3, 2008, 6:18:23 PM9/3/08

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quick correction: there is an evaluation version and a pay version, not a
'free' version. Not sure what is missing from the evaluation version at the
moment, maybe nothing. The pay version is $50 for single user which I think
is very reasonable for the features. I'm evaluating it now, so far,
impressed.

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Reventlov

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Sep 5, 2008, 12:21:38 PM9/5/08

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Il giorno Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:41:09 -0400, "James" <no...@nowhere.com> ha scritto:
>the project I'm working on has grown, since my last post, into me doing more
>writting than I first thought so intellisense moved from 'would be nice' to
>required.

MSE or MSE7 shipped with ms office has intellisense and object browser.
But vbsedit is better as when you createobject it automagically adds the object in the
browser.
I have a free vbs editor which is good but lacks a button to launch the script.
Most of the other editors have only syntax checking as they are only advanced notepads.
Giovanni.

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bobwilliams

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Nov 15, 2009, 3:15:59 PM11/15/09

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not a fan of pspad, can't launch wsh or vbscripts from application.

Michael Harris wrote:

Re: good free code editor?
05-Aug-08

James wrote: