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Using
Crimson Editor
Most compilers read plain text
files in and produce executables or bytecode from the plain text. Notepad just
won't do and Vim seems a little too alien and unfriendly. Since I have been
using command line tools I started just using DOS-EDIT (type EDIT at the command
line) and that was working just fine. Then I downloaded a video training module
off of the internet and saw the instructor using ConText editor. Like many text
editors, ConText highlights your code and helps you in other ways. I tinkered
with that for a while but then found Crimson. Crimson allows you to set up tool
sets which can be loaded whenever you want. I find this much better than the
four commands you are allowed for each file extension in ConText. The way
Crimson passes arguments is more agreeable to me too. I have worked with a
couple other text editors since finding Crimson but even though a couple others
may look slicker, they don't have the same flexibility and functionality that
Crimson offers. So, download Crimson at http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
and then decide what you want to do with it.
If you want to use Crimson to
program then you'll want to see line numbers. If you don't already see line
numbers, click
View>Line Numbers or Alt+Shift+L.
If you are like me you don't like
all of that bright white there to wreck your eyes when you're coding hour after
hour. Click View>Set
Colors.
To open Explorer to the folder
your file is in, just GoTo Tools>Conf.
User Tools... and fill in this
information:
Menu Text: Open folder to file.
Command:
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe (or whatever the path is on your system)
Argument: $(FileDir)
Hotkey:
(whatever you want)
XP users can open a command line
in the file's directory by using a tool like this:
Menu Text: Open
Command Line
Command:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe (or whatever the path is on your system)
Initial
Directory: $(FileDir)
Hotkey:
(Whatever you want)
Other pages you may be interested
in:
Crimson
and Borland
Crimson
and Microsoft VC++ Toolkit
Crimson
and MinGW
Crimson and BAT files
Crimson and Java
Crimson and Unreal Script
Crimson and Undying
This page was last updated on: Saturday, November 27, 2004 08:21:27
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