good awk editor

Hello,
Working on W2000, I use notepad to write my awk scripts.
Could perhaps somebody recommend a better editor for awk ?
... or do you consider notepad good enough ?
Thank you for any advice/pointer.

In article <d3dvbq$f4q$1@domitilla.aioe.org>,
news_user  <news.user@tld.invalid> wrote:
>Hello,
>Working on W2000, I use notepad to write my awk scripts.
>Could perhaps somebody recommend a better editor for awk ?
>... or do you consider notepad good enough ?
>Thank you for any advice/pointer.

Obviously, we can't talk about it here.

But we can suggest that you check out, oh, say, a newsgroup called
comp.editors.

news_user wrote:
> Hello,
> Working on W2000, I use notepad to write my awk scripts.
> Could perhaps somebody recommend a better editor for awk ?
> ... or do you consider notepad good enough ?
> Thank you for any advice/pointer.

I am using gvim for that purpose; it gives me syntax highlighting, and
that's all I need for editing awk programs besides gvim's powerful editing
capabilities. I suppose emacs will be comparable in this respect. Though
given that you use "notepad" as an editor it might turn out that you will
have to spend quite some time learning to use a real editor.

Thinking about it; since you use notepad, you may take _almost any_ editor
you find and be better off.

Janis

news_user <news.user@tld.invalid> wrote on Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:50:51 +0200:
> Hello,
> Working on W2000, I use notepad to write my awk scripts.
> Could perhaps somebody recommend a better editor for awk ?

Well, Emacs of course!  What else?  Emacs has even got a special mode for
AWK, which does syntax highlighting, indents your code automatically, and
has all the other Emacs goodies.  It doesn't wash your dishes for you,
though.

[Fair warning:  this isn't an unbiassed objective viewpoint. ;-]

> ... or do you consider notepad good enough ?

Is notepad good enough for anything?

> Thank you for any advice/pointer.

--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Email: aacm@muuc.dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
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Lately my favourite lightweight editor have become Crimson Editor (
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ ). It starts almost as fast as Notepad,
but have more features than I'll probably ever use, including syntax
highlighting (which I do use ;)). Of course, if you like to be able to
play Tetris from within your editor there's not much beating (X)Emacs.
You could also have a look here:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/editors.shtml

Donatzsky a écrit :

> Lately my favourite lightweight editor have become Crimson Editor (
> http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ ). It starts almost as fast as Notepad,
> but have more features than I'll probably ever use, including syntax
> highlighting (which I do use ;)). Of course, if you like to be able to
> play Tetris from within your editor there's not much beating (X)Emacs.
> You could also have a look here:
> http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/editors.shtml

Thank you for the link.
I tried crimson and it is indeed very comfortable.
Thanks.