On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:11:48PM -0400, Sally C. Barry wrote: > Hi All - > > I have a question about what editors can be used with Gimp docs. > > My main system is Windows ME. Since none of the MS editors (Notepad, > Wordpad, MW Word) are suitable for our files, Julien suggested that > I download the freeware program, Notepad++. It does the job, but it > doesn't really work well with Windows ME. I have to keep re-booting > the system, Windows Explorer keeps dying, etc. > > Does anyone else use something different that works better? > > I run GIMP from a Live Linux CD (Knoppix), although that's not the system > I normally have running on my PC. > > My preferred editor on Linux is vi (vim). Does anyone know if this > works on our XML files? Are there any things to watch out for? Any > tips? > > Thanks again for your help! > > Sally > Sorry, I do not want to start a vi-emacs war but I use emacs (particulary emacs-snapshot) with the nxml-mode package under Linux (but there are working versions for Windoze, working perfectly under win9x) and I find it GREAT to work with xml files. It do a validation process _during_ text tiping and it is able to mark syntax errors with red underlines in real time. I know of a great GPL java editor: jedit. Full featured but perhaps a bit heavy... Or scite: a wonderful lightweight python programmers editor (no xml validation) -- Marco Ciampa +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ Gimp-docs mailing list Gimp-docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs
