My Favorite Text Editor
I like vim, I really do, but its not the text editor I use when I'm writing html/css or LaTeX or php... The editor I generally go to when I'm getting down to business is TEA. It is very fast, has great syntax highlighting, templates, and a built in image viewer. I love this editor. :)
Features from the Site:
Small size
Built-in MC-like file manager
Spellchecker (using the aspell or/and Hunspell)
Tabbed layout engine
Syntax highlighting for C, C++, Bash script, BASIC, C#, D, Fortran, Java, LilyPond, Lout, Lua, NASM, NSIS, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PO (gettext), Seed7, TeX/LaTeX, Vala, Verilog, XML, HTML, XHTML.
Multiply encodings support
In-text labels (markers) support
Code snippets and templates support
Scripts (Python, Perl, Ruby, Bash script, QtScript)
Hotkeys customizations
"Open at cursor"-function for HTML-files and images
Misc HTML tools
Wikipedia, Docbook, LaTeX, Lout editing support
Preview in external browsers
String-handling functions such as sorting, reverse, format killing, trimming, filtering, conversions etc.
Bookmarks
Morse code translator
Calendar/organizer
Drag'n'drop support (with text files and pictures)
Built-in image viewer (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WBMP, BMP, SVG, TIFF, TGA, etc.)
Built-in image converter and resizer
Built-in ZIP packer/unpacker with file names charset selector
RMS calculation for 16 bit PCM WAV's
Tea runs on Linux and Windows. It has a GTK and QT branch. And its fast, featureful and nice to use. Check it out here:
http://tea-editor.sourceforge.net/
My favorite thing about tea is the input field on the bottom. Its sorta like a terminal for the editor. :)
