Easy Windoze Text Editor with Parens Matching?

[lisp...@gmail.com]

Hi, I have some non-programmers who need to create some sexpressions.
I can't justify forcing them to learn emacs for this, but they need
rudimentary parens matching or they'll suffer needlessly...

Anyone know of any crude notepad-like editor that runs on windows and
has parens matching? I couldn't find a good candidate after some
Google hunting.

Thanks for your help!

[lisp...@gmail.com]

never mind- I found what I needed: Notepad++

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Thanks Everyone!

[Ken Tilton]

Bah! Have them install the ACL free trial. They can use the project
manager to keep their source straight, and they get full-blown
parens-aware editing such as double-clicking to select a balanced chunk
of code. Two modes on the keychords: Windows and Emacs.

Have those projects load a little subproject with the beef of your app
and they can even test (and probably violate the free trial license,
scratch that). :)

kenny

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[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

lisp...@gmail.com writes:

Well, I don't know about MS-Windows specific programs, but you could
still let your non-programmer use an editor you would develop, using
emacs.

Basically, you'd just disable most bindings. Just keep the basic C-
bindings, and a few C-x C- bindings (find-file, save-buffer, if you
need them; you could also put a hook to save the buffer when exiting
emacs, so they wouldn't have to deal with files), and add
paredit-mode.

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[Jason]

You can also try gVim easy. It's vim without the toggle edit mode. It
has a setting to match parens.

[John Thingstad]

One not mentioned is ECL with a ECL Lisp shell.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecls/

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John Thingstad