Other options for a Rebol editor|IDE?

Question

I currently use Programmer's Notepad with the Rebol syntax scheme. It's not bad--does any insightful person have another suggestion?

Answer 1

For Windows, there is Crimson Editor or E with the REBOL bundle.

For Mac, there is TextMate.

Emacs, I believe has a REBOL syntax too.

Answer 2

I use UltraEdit.

with its advanced project, syntax highlighting, macro, command-line control and total keyboard shortcut configuration, per language and project, you can program the editor to do just about all of what you need at a single click of the mouse, or keyboard.

my setup starts rebol on any file, and assigns a launch "default project script " to a shortcut, so wherever I am in the files, I still launch the project's relevant script. change project, it will run that new project's scripts. another key for unit tests, another key for "find in all opened files, etc, etc..

also, the actual text-exiting, when combined with a few macros which create functions, objects, and more using the clipboard and "currently highlighted" text makes it much faster than any Visual IDE including MSVC.

ultra edit itself has thousands of other advanced features, and they all work... really they do.

I've tried other editors and they always fall short when I start to push them.

yeah, you have to buy it... but its cheap (like one or two hours of your life salary ;-)

so considering you might use it for several months or years... its a cheap investment.

also, ultra edit is now released on linux and the mac port is just around the corner.

Answer 3

Sublime Text is a really nice Windows editor (commercial, but reasonably priced) that supports TextMate configurations (well, at least for syntax and snippets) so if you manage to get a REBOL bundle from somewhere, you can use it with this.

SciTE also has REBOL syntax coloring support because the Scintilla editor component it's based on includes this.

Notepad++ should also support REBOL syntax coloring, being Scintilla based, but as it is currently distributed, the support is not compiled in. If you're so inclined, you could probably compile it yourself and add the support back in. It might be worth it because Notepad++ is quite a good editor too.

I can't include proper links because I don't have enough rep, but this should do: www.sublimetext.com www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html www.scintilla.org/index.html notepad-plus-plus.org

Answer 4

I use JEdit which not only has REBOL syntax highlighting but also auto-indenting. It has most of the features you'd expect from a text editor (e.g. block selection, configurable keyboard shortcuts).

There are versions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux so if you choose to work cross-platform you won't need to learn a new editor. The web page is Jedit.org1

Answer 5

http://rebol.wik.is/index.php?title=Notepad%2b%2b

which is a REBOL plugin for Notepad++