Friday, February 25, 2011

Recommended text editors

This list is by no means intended to be exhaustive, and merely represents editors that I have used and which work well with at least one statistical language.

• jEdit - Free/Open Source: Powerful and easy to use

• UltraEdit - Commercial/$60: Powerful and easy to use

• Eclipse with StatET plugin - Free/Open Source: Capable of being used as a text editor or a full IDE

• EMACS with ESS plugin - Free/Open Source: Steep initial learning curve but extremely powerful

• AutoIt is not a text editor but rather a Windows tool which helps link text editors to your statistical package

6 comments:

  1. Notepad++ works fine as well :)

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  2. A Plain Text Editor
    Plain Text files
    That's right, if you're writer on a budget, you don't need to spend any money buying expensive writing software or apps. Instead, you can use the text editor that comes free with your operating system.
    Just open up Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. I like plain text editors for writing something short quickly and easily, without thinking much about it. I wrote a blog post about the benefits of using plain text editors as writing software.
    Use for: writing whatever, wherever

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  3. A Plain Text Editor
    Plain Text files
    That's right, if you're writer on a budget, you don't need to spend any money buying expensive writing software or apps. Instead, you can use the text editor that comes free with your operating system.
    Just open up Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. I like plain text editors for writing something short quickly and easily, without thinking much about it. I wrote a blog post about the benefits of using plain text editors as writing software.
    Use for: writing whatever, wherever

    ReplyDelete
  4. A Plain Text Editor
    Plain Text files
    That's right, if you're writer on a budget, you don't need to spend any money buying expensive writing software or apps. Instead, you can use the text editor that comes free with your operating system.
    Just open up Notepad on Windows or TextEdit on a Mac. I like plain text editors for writing something short quickly and easily, without thinking much about it. I wrote a blog post about the benefits of using plain text editors as writing software.
    Use for: writing whatever, wherever

    ReplyDelete