Which Script Editor to use?
by Simon Foster · in Torque Game Engine · 09/27/2006 (1:39 am) · 44 replies
I was just wondering if people have any preferences/comments about what they use to edit scripts. Torsion and Torquedev seem capable, and Ultra Edit could be good with the keywords supported. Are there any others? Any thoughts anyone?
#3
09/27/2006 (3:09 am)
I hadn't heard of ConTEXT so thanks for that. It occurs to me that an important thing for me would be how the debugging process would go. I'm assuming that with notepad or wordpad you're not going to get any indication of where your code bug is. Any editors out there that are more capable in this regard?
#4
09/27/2006 (3:18 am)
Torsion and CodeWeaver are both extremely capable IDE's that I'd recommend.
#5
09/27/2006 (7:36 am)
I use the crimson editor. although I'm planning to try out torsion one of these days.
#6
09/27/2006 (7:43 am)
Never heard of crimson either so thanks for the name. I tried out Torsion & a notice said that it would expire after sometime in Novermber it would expire. Given it's an Alpha I don't know if Sickhead are planning to continue supporting it so I thought it might be risky.
#8
09/27/2006 (8:51 am)
CodeWeaver 
#11
altho i keep planning to move to Torsion to get debugging.
my favorite thing about Crimson is the lightweight macro recording.
09/27/2006 (9:57 am)
I use CrimsonEditor also,altho i keep planning to move to Torsion to get debugging.
my favorite thing about Crimson is the lightweight macro recording.
#12
09/27/2006 (10:03 am)
Torsion! 
#14
For Linux, I use a home-grown. Do any of the others mentioned in this thread have Linux versions? (Torsion does not)
09/27/2006 (12:54 pm)
I use Torsion, too. The only problem is that I have to keep downloading new versions, and there's nowhere I can send money to remove that restriction.For Linux, I use a home-grown. Do any of the others mentioned in this thread have Linux versions? (Torsion does not)
#15
09/27/2006 (1:23 pm)
I use CodeWeaver, I have been meaning to give Torsion another look since last year though. I still use Tribal as well for when I want to make a quick edit and don't have CodeWeaver open already.
#16
09/27/2006 (1:25 pm)
I'm with Peter Simard, I love UltraEdit. UEStudio looks pretty nice too. 
#17
@ J \"hplus\" W: Torsion is still alpha, i.e. it's not done yet! I'm sure Tom will happily take your money when he finishes it. =)
09/27/2006 (1:26 pm)
Textpad -- flexible and powerful regular expressions and custom syntax highlighting. I use Torsion for debugging (when it works). Codeweaver is also very good, but it's also in something of an alpha state and has some issues and "features" that I'm not a big fan of. I'll likely stick with Torsion when it's done.@ J \"hplus\" W: Torsion is still alpha, i.e. it's not done yet! I'm sure Tom will happily take your money when he finishes it. =)
#18
Isn't Codeweaver written in .NET? That might be portable to Mono and voila : a Linux IDE.
09/27/2006 (1:50 pm)
@J \"hplus\" W : Good question. Given that my development is taking place more and more on Linux (80% at least), it would be nice to be able to keep working in your os of choice for script editing also. Isn't Codeweaver written in .NET? That might be portable to Mono and voila : a Linux IDE.
#19
09/27/2006 (1:59 pm)
Unfortunately, the most significant part of an IDE is it's user interface, and as I understand it, the mono implementation of Windows.Forms is NOT ready for prime time. 
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