E TextEditor Using Tips

e-texteditor is really a awesome text editor for programmers on windows platform, especially for dynamic languages. As it is designed to be a alternative option for textmate on win platform, it can incorporate almost all powerful bundles designed for textmate.

• I use e-texteditor for almost my jobs, including:

• html+css, using the ZenCoding bundle

• php, using the built-in bundle

• ror, it has perfect built-in bundle for ruby on rails

• cucumber, uses bmabey’s cucumber-tmbundle

• TODO bundle, implementing common todo in comment function

After install all the bundles I needed, I played around for some time, looking for some features I must use everyday.

• kill line (ctrl + alt + k)

• quick moving between words (ctrl + left or right)

• snippet completing (tab)

• zen-coding expand (ctrl + E)

• quick open file in project, a very useful feature. (ctrl + shift + T)

• find symbol in file (ctrl + L)

• go to line (ctrl + G)

• find & replace supporting regex

• quick switch between tabs (ctrl + 1-9, ctrl + 0 for select)

• language specific features: commenting line or region, command shortcuts, etc

The reason I like e as my programming editor is because it is native windows program. So I can use familiar ctrl + backspace to delete a word, ctrl + c, ctrl + v, and also get the power of a configurable editor as vim or emacs.