For a long time I have used PFE , soon it became outdated but I still kept it. That was a year ago , now I have come back to it to admire its beaty. So I decided to create a new editor from scratch , I know , a load of people are gonna say that thats easy :/ . But really in a project like this the most important thing is - the design , so its full of juicy stuff , but not so full that it breaks and just goes all crazy. Does anyone have any ideas of what I should have in it? Thanks.

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That's not an easy project at all, and if you come up with a great, free editor, we'll all be in your debt!

- taubz

I know , its not the programming , its the ideas ! So do you have any ?

I am basing it on my Wap Notepad , ok I am thinking of synatx plug-ins for different lnguages , would that be too much ?

That's a good idea.

ok

There are already some very good programming editors (albeit not free ones) available. EditPlus is one of my personal favourites, followed closely by UltraEdit.

TRied PFE ?

Why not just use emacs...if you don't like the way emacs does something then just change
it with some emacs-lisp. That would be a much more worthwhile project.
Emacs already does the hard stuff like providing buffers and
a syntax highlighting framework (among many other things).
All you would have to do is write a few functions and hook
them into the editor in your .emacs to customize it the way
you want.

I'm not a fan of emacs in the least. I find it incredibly complicated, when all I need is something (for Windows) that does hilighting and indentation... Buffers are weird.

Anyway, I think that self-degrading usernames shouldn't be allowed. aspiring_dude would be better, I think. :-P

- taubz