Nonsequittal Rumblings

As a person who likes to explore the ways to improve my programming life, one of the things I do from time to time is to look for new text editors. In fact, I’ve noted one of those I’ve tried in this blog once before.
I’ve finally come up with the one I’m extremely happy with. The program is called SciTE. I can only compare it with the programs I’m familiar with… There are things I really like about this editor. It has pretty good windows interface, unlike gvim for windows. It still has the extensive syntax highlighting like vim or Ultraedit. It’s pretty configurable like gvim, but not as heavy. The configuration is based on text config files, so it might not be for weak at heart. It has the text folding feature like Macromedia Homesite. It can save the file in UTF-8 unicode. Basically, it has a lot of the features I was looking for, without sacrificing any gimmicks.
It’s not like it’s perfect either. For the time being, I will be using both this and Textpad side by side. Textpad still has some other features I haven’t figured out in SciTE, such as macro, and easy font configuration, with which I can even edit Japanese text files (including Unicode).
Now, with this, editing PHP on windows is easier than ever. SciTE, WinSCP, and PHP.net, that’s about all I need.