Re: Consider Replacing SciTE with Geany in Windows Package

[Gabi Davar]

True, SciTe compares poorly vs other Scintilla derivatives. Geany would not be my first choice when compared with Notepad++.

I'll put it on the wish list ...

-gabi

On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 7:42:19 PM UTC+2, Redoubts wrote:

I think Python (x,y) should consider replacing SciTE with a Scintilla derivative instead. Geany is in active development, and is in the same family as SciTE, but seems more user friendly and easily extensible. SciTE on its own is nice and light, but customization is annoying and frustrating at times. In particular, syntax highlighting rarely/never inherits from the common style settings, but is individually hard coded for almost every language supported.

[Pierre Raybaut]

I can't remember exactly why I chose to replace Notepad++ by SciTE, 4 years ago:
https://groups.google.com/group/pythonxy/tree/browse_frm/month/2009-01

I think some of the reasons were the following:
1. SciTE is light weight
2. SciTE supports better the "Run" command for various languages (if I
remember correctly...)
3. SciTE supports code completion (but it's not the most helpful code
completion feature I've seen though...)

-Pierre

2013/3/15 Gabi Davar <grizz...@gmail.com>:

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[Gabi Davar]

It feels to me like the Notepad++ has improved a lot since while SciTe remained pretty much the same.

How would you compare Notepad++ vs SciTe today? 

-gabi

[Pierre Raybaut]

I agree. I even found myself replacing SciTE by a portable Notepad++
on my USB key recently. Since then I'm quite happy with Notepad++: a
lot of nice features (for example, I appreciate to split screen or
create a new instance of the application with a simple drag&drop of
file's tab) and it's better looking (SciTE colors and design are quite
depressing...).

So I guess I would vote to replace SciTE by Notepad++.

-Pierre

2013/3/16 Gabi Davar <grizz...@gmail.com>: