(Free) Text editor on Windows with a folder view?

Question

I have to stay away from my MacBook and will use Windows for a while. I missed Textmate's folder view when editing my rails projects. Is there an editor on Windows with the folder view? I know there is the E text editor. But I'll save a few bucks if there is a free (cheaper) alternative, as I won't stay in Windows for long ...

Answer 1

Have a look at Komodo Edit. Some people are already using it for Rails development.

Answer 2

Go with gVim, and when editing a file you can type :edit. to pull up the working directory, and navigate from there. Also you get geek cred for rolling VI!

Answer 3

emacs has speedbar, diredit mode, other option.

This is speedbar:

Answer 4

Netbeans is full scale open-source ruby/rails-editor with a folder-view. Programmer's Notepad is a very lightweigt open source text-editor, it has a "project"-view (but you have to define the project yourself).