Text Editors for PP
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To do PP, you need a good text editor. There are a lot of choices. For this article, I'm going to limit it to those that are possible to PP with and are free. There are others that have a cost that will work really nicely, but I'm on a budget, so I assume everyone else is too.
OS Compatibility
| Windows | Mac | Linux | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluefish | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gedit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GNU Emacs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GuiGuts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Notepad++ | Yes | No | No |
| TextWrangler | No | Yes | No |
Feature Comparison Chart
| Bluefish | Gedit | GNU Emacs | GuiGuts | Notepad++ | TextWrangler | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bi-direction Support | Yes | Yes | No | No | ||
| "bin" file | No | No | No | Yes | No | No |
| Code Highlighting | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| External Program Integration | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Regular Expressions | Yes | yes [1] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Snippets | Yes | yes [1] | No | |||
| Spellcheck | Yes | yes [1][2] | Yes | Yes | ||
| Unicode Support | Yes | Yes | Partial |
[Footnote 1: Need to install a plugin]
[Footnote 2: I can't get it to work in Windows]