Notepad++ for CF

[Jay]

hey everybody,

I've been looking for this for a while so I figured I'll post it here in case others are looking.

I know that Mac users have Textmate bundles for CF, but as a Windows user I've been looking for a while for a lightweight text editor for CF.

Ben Bluemel has created a plugin for Notepad++ which is now at a stage where it is very functional and quite useful.  the plugin can be downloaded from

https://bitbucket.org/bbluemel/nppcoldfusion/downloads

Jay

[Andrew Myers]

Hi Jay,

Thanks for sharing. I've just installed it. I generally use
CFEclipse but it's great to be able to quickly open a file without
needing a full blown IDE.

Regards,
Andrew.

[Sean Corfield]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Jay <d...@21solutions.net> wrote:
> I know that Mac users have Textmate bundles for CF, but as a Windows user
> I've been looking for a while for a lightweight text editor for CF.

I believe there's a version of TextMate for Windows, called E, but I
don't know how compatible it is with the (Mac) TextMate bundles.
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[Andrew Myers]

Redcar (redcareditor.com) is another one - it's open source and
written in JRuby. But it was still very alpha when I last tried it.

[Jay]

yes, e-TextEditor (http://www.e-texteditor.com/) supports Textmate bundles.  it's free (and apparently open source) for Linux but the Windows version costs $47.

Notepad++ is open source being updated on a regular basis.

also, Ben Bluemel is actively updating the CF plugin and in the current version you get autocomplete for cf tags with the available attributes and other nice features.

[Sean Corfield]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Jay <d...@21solutions.net> wrote:
> yes, e-TextEditor (http://www.e-texteditor.com/) supports Textmate bundles.
>  it's free (and apparently open source) for Linux but the Windows version
> costs $47.

The Mac version costs money too :)

Disclaimer: I use ColdFusion Builder for all my CFML editing so I'm
already using a $299 editor!

[Jay]

oh.  for some reason I thought that Textmate came with Mac OS.

actually now that I think of it -- I originally found out about the Textmate bundle for CF on your blog. 

[Gerald Guido]

>>Ben Bluemel has created a plugin for Notepad++

+1

Very handy. I have been using Notepad++ for some years now. It is a very nice text/code editor in it's own right.  For those that are interested check out the plugin manager for some other nifty tools.

Plugins --> Plugin manager --> Show Plugin manager

G!

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[Jay]

yea, the plugin manager is cool, but I think that the current download for the CF plugin is not supported by the plugin manager and needs to be manually installed.

it features cool autocomplete with the cf tags, attributes, and functions so it's totally worth going through the process of the manual install.

[Andrew Myers]

I mistakenly copied the sqlite dll into the plugins dir but once I read the instructions correctly it was quite easy :)

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[Tom Lenz]

What's interesting about e is that, at least if I remember right, Rob Rohan, the cfeclipse Rob Rohan, was involved
http://robrohan.com/2008/11/29/cftextmate-30-beta-released/.

The plugin for cfml has templates for cf tags.

I tried it for a while, but the thing is, cfeclipse triple rocks. Mylyn, subversion, unit tests, denstar, etc..

Notepad++ is a good program. I use it for non-development stuff. In other words, I just replace windows` notepad.exe
with notepad++.