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I found my new love – e-texteditor

In the project I’m currently on, I work with one web designer and four ruby on rails developers. Among the four developers, three of them are running on a MacBook.

Every time we had a discussion, I will secretly envy the look on their screen, all laden with textmate. As for myself and the other guy, we’re using Aptana RadRails as our IDE. He’s running Linux Mint, and I’m on Windows 7. Aptana RadRails is a great IDE, it provides tons of features, and among that I like is code-folding, auto-completion for HTML, JavaScript and Ruby close tags (so you don’t miss those irritating curly braces).

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But there’s a few problems with Aptana RadRails that bites me on the backside – that is, it is run on Java (read: resource hog), and it needs it’s own metadata file to keep track of your projects. Which can be quite irritating if you decided to move your source files around the disk. (I hope this will change in the upcoming Aptana RadRails 3!)

So last night, out of pure desperation, frustration and boredom, I searched for “textedit windows alternative”, and I found one that is really close – e-texteditor.

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Looks like it’s going to be my favorite editor for my web development and integration projects!

Check out e-texteditor for windows!

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