repost: Looking for good text editor

[Andrew McLellan]

I posted this question in the "Getting Started" group but did not get a response
so I thought I would try "General". I'm new to Java coming from a Microsoft
background. I like using a text editor to write java code, like TextPad,
but I miss Microsoft's Intellisense. I like being able to see all the methods
an properties while typing I think it's a great learning aid. I know all
the IDE's have this but is there any stripped down text editor with this
functionality. I though I remembered reading about one somewhere? Thanks
in advance.
Andrew

[Mark]

Andrew,
SlickEdit may provide this. If an editor has this I wouldn't consider
it stripped down. So why are you only using a text editor? You can download
pretty good IDEs for free.

Mark

"Andrew McLellan" <mclellana@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>I posted this question in the "Getting Started" group but did not get a
response
>so I thought I would try "General". I'm new to Java coming from a Microsoft
>background. I like using a text editor to write java code, like TextPad,
>but I miss Microsoft's Intellisense. I like being able to see all the methods
>an properties while typing I think it's a great learning aid. I know all
>the IDE's have this but is there any stripped down text editor with this
>functionality. I though I remembered reading about one somewhere? Thanks
>in advance.
>Andrew

[Mike]

Just get JBuilder from Borland. It's free and has a look and feel quite like
MS products. It has intellisence and good debugging features.

"Andrew McLellan" <mclellana@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> I posted this question in the "Getting Started" group but did not get a
response
> so I thought I would try "General". I'm new to Java coming from a
Microsoft
> background. I like using a text editor to write java code, like TextPad,
> but I miss Microsoft's Intellisense. I like being able to see all the
methods
> an properties while typing I think it's a great learning aid. I know all
> the IDE's have this but is there any stripped down text editor with this
> functionality. I though I remembered reading about one somewhere? Thanks
> in advance.
> Andrew

[Mike Hewitt]

Andrew,
If you want to do text editing with "code completion", try one of the
following:

jEdit is an open-source text editor which has plug-ins for code completion.
http://www.jedit.org

TogetherSoft provides a "whiteboard edition" of their tool which has a fair
editor that also does code completion.
http://www.togethersoft.com/downloads/index.html

Both are java-based and work nicely on Windows and Linux.

Hope this helps,
- Mike

Mike Hewitt
Senior Consultant
Integrated Enterprise Solutions, Inc.
mikehewitt@ies-fl.com




"Andrew McLellan" <mclellana@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>I posted this question in the "Getting Started" group but did not get a
response
>so I thought I would try "General". I'm new to Java coming from a Microsoft
>background. I like using a text editor to write java code, like TextPad,
>but I miss Microsoft's Intellisense. I like being able to see all the methods
>an properties while typing I think it's a great learning aid. I know all
>the IDE's have this but is there any stripped down text editor with this
>functionality. I though I remembered reading about one somewhere? Thanks
>in advance.
>Andrew

[Patrick Lacson]

My favorite text editor is emacs, both for win32 and *Nix. It's free,
fast, and rock solid. However it doesn't have code-completion.. If you
want something that's portable try JBuilder from Borland or ForteCE by
Sun -- both have code completion.

-P

Andrew McLellan wrote:
>
> I posted this question in the "Getting Started" group but did not get a response
> so I thought I would try "General". I'm new to Java coming from a Microsoft
> background. I like using a text editor to write java code, like TextPad,
> but I miss Microsoft's Intellisense. I like being able to see all the methods
> an properties while typing I think it's a great learning aid. I know all
> the IDE's have this but is there any stripped down text editor with this
> functionality. I though I remembered reading about one somewhere? Thanks
> in advance.
> Andrew

[scott7379]

Forte, Forte, Forte!! http://www.sun.com/forte/ffj/

It's free, free, free and highly rated. It takes about an hour or two to
figure out the interface, but click around on all of the modules, etc and
you'll get it. Or check out the online docs. Also - you may want to get
the book Introduction to Java Programming with JBUILDER3 (see Barnes and
Noble or Amazon). It's a good book for students that are new to Java. It's
written for the new college student, by a Purdue professor, Mr. Daniel Liang.
Best of all it comes with JBUILDER3- Student Edition for free. I'd highly
reccommend it to the beginner as TextPad is not the most informative editor,
debugger, etc. JB3-SE and Forte helps you focus on the JAVA, not the DOS
commands and TextPad issues.
Good luck and have fun!!

Scott

Patrick Lacson <patrick@lacson.net> wrote:
>My favorite text editor is emacs, both for win32 and *Nix. It's free,
>fast, and rock solid. However it doesn't have code-completion.. If you
>want something that's portable try JBuilder from Borland or ForteCE by
>Sun -- both have code completion.
>
>-P
>
>Andrew McLellan wrote:
>>
>> I posted this question in the "Getting Started" group but did not get
a response
>> so I thought I would try "General". I'm new to Java coming from a Microsoft
>> background. I like using a text editor to write java code, like TextPad,
>> but I miss Microsoft's Intellisense. I like being able to see all the
methods
>> an properties while typing I think it's a great learning aid. I know
all
>> the IDE's have this but is there any stripped down text editor with this
>> functionality. I though I remembered reading about one somewhere? Thanks
>> in advance.
>> Andrew