Looking for a free windows text editor, for c#

[Guest]

Although I mostly use the Visual Studio IDE, and recommend it, from time to
time I prefer to knock out a small app with just the command line, and a text
editor.

Until recently I've used VIM in a unix terminal, for c++, but that is no
longer available to me, and, AFIK, doesn't support c#.

I would like a notepad-like editor, with c# indenting support, or VIM, from
DOS.

Any recommendations?

I've tried - Notepad: the indentation is aweful; Crimson Editor: Very nice,
but it's not my ideal lightweight code editor; vi, in MSys (the Linux
terminal emulator): no c#, and it's going to take a bit of work to put c#
compiler support into the environment.

 

[Guest]

If I don't use Visual Studio I like to use SharpDevelop
(www.sharpdevelop.com). Although it is not as leightweight as you are
looking for it is quick to load and use, or if you just want to test code
snippets then SnippetCompiler is pretty good too
http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler/

Mark R Dawson

 

[John Sun]

How about this,

http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/

JW

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the responses.

I realised that what I want most of all is a vim or emacs, in a linux shell,
and discovered that vim is already there in MSys, and supports c style
indenting.

This certainly isn't for everyone, but if you like the command line, and
vim, then you can do .Net development in windows, with free tools...

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How it's done....

MSys - a Linux like Bash shell, which executes Win32 exes, in a terminal
which is much superior to DOS, or CYGWIN,..www.mingw.org/msys.shtml
(installation is a breeze)

vim - just runs from the MSys command line, standard

Put /c/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/..version../ into the PATH

and then edit & compile!!!

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Here's a "screenshot"....

Gerry@warthog /c/Tmp
$ vi helloworld.cs

Gerry@warthog /c/Tmp
$ cat helloworld.cs
class HelloWorld
{
static void Main()
{
System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World ");
}
}


Gerry@warthog /c/Tmp
$ csc helloworld.cs
Microsoft (R) Visual C# .NET Compiler version 7.10.6001.4
for Microsoft (R) .NET Framework version 1.1.4322
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 2001-2002. All rights reserved.


Gerry@warthog /c/Tmp
$ helloworld.exe
Hello World

 

[ian]

http://www.textpad.com/ is pretty good.