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• Price (Score:2)

  by Matts (1087)

  I'd be much more interested if it weren't so horribly overpriced. Paying over $100 for an editor is just nuts. Not that my productivity isn't worth that, but that there are lower cost alternatives out there that do things just as well.
  
  If you have a G4 for example, you'll find that jEdit runs as fast as a native editor (assuming you've turned on hardware accel), and it's free (and Free) and has support for everything you've mentioned there.
  
  I also heard that it's rather focussed on HTML editing, and has HTM
  • Re:Price (Score:2)

    by wickline (135)

    
    if jEdit works for you, then stick with it :)
    
    $79 does round up to $100
    
    "just as well" is an opinion that I don't think either of us can
    stand behind. I haven't tried jEdit, and it doesn't sound like
    you have tried BBEdit.
    
    It does have one HTML menu. Frankly, I rarely use any of the menus
    as I find the keyboard faster (especially with user-configurable
    key bindings). If you're similarly keyboard-focused then I bet that
    you wouldn't notice the HTML menu.
    
    My intended audience was those folk
    • Re:Price (Score:2)

      by Matts (1087) on 2002.08.05 1:43 (#11397) Journal

      I'm never satisfied with my text editor ;-)
      
      I just reel at that price for a text editor, when the only thing that really goes against jEdit for me is the performance (being Java).
      
      The other one I'm trying (now I've managed to get it to compile) is xjed - but of course you need the X server running for it. At least its fast though, and has a pretty decent extension language (slang).

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      • Re:Price (Score:2)

        by wickline (135)

        
        maybe this will help...
        
        The folks at BareBones have repeatedly said on-list that
        their license is intended to be per-user. So, if you would
        need to put this editor on your desktop, laptop, other older
        laptop, and work machine, you would buy one license provided
        only one instance of BBEdit would be in use at any given time.
        
        ... but it still isn't cheaper than free.
        
        -matt
        
        • Re:Price (Score:2)

          by Matts (1087)

          I don't mind non-free - I hate the free software party line. I go for software that doesn't suck. I actually own a license for TextPad [textpad.com] because I think it's the best Windows text editor when you line up price, performance, features, and usability. But the price is a lot more reasonable.
          
          However I hadn't seen a $70 price before - everywhere I looked said over $100. So it may be worth a second look.
          
          The permanent HTML menus thing still sucks though ;-)
          
          Oh, and I also tried Pepper [hekkelman.com], which is reasonably priced, a
          • Re:Price (Score:2)

            by wickline (135)

            > I go for software that doesn't suck
            
            http://store.barebones.com/it-doesnt-suck-back.html
            
            > I hadn't seen a $70 price before
            
            http://store.barebones.com/bbedit-upgrades.html
                $79 to upgrade from (the free) BBEdit Lite
                $79 is also their academic price, which seems redundant
                $39 for AISS owners
                $39 to upgrade from any earlier version of BBEdit
            
            Oh, I forgot a biggie in the feature list: Unicode
            
            -matt