http://www.osnews.com/story/1027/Win_a_Free_Copy_of_Pepper_4_for_MacOS_Windows_Unix_Linux Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:15:59 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Well, I don't know how good the Pepper editor is but Linux obviously has a lot of FREE/OPEN/GOOD editors. Mon, 06 May 2002 09:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I bought the predecessor "Pe" for BeOS and am very satisfied with it. I'd again buy Pepper if it were available. Provided it offers a significant gain over "Pe" and its development is kept up... Mon, 06 May 2002 13:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Downloaded Pepper, unfortunately without a kep you can't use it to evaluate the product.. What did I miss?

Gary Mon, 06 May 2002 14:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I work in Linux and in Windows. On both platforms I use VIM. Actually, gvim.It has syntax highlighting for alot of programming languages, shellscripts included, virtually unlimited filesize, many other features. Mon, 06 May 2002 14:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Just launch it, wait a couple of seconds,
and then close the registration pop-up. It'll work. Mon, 06 May 2002 14:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I found it just after I sent the comment, don't press cancel, just the [X] box :-) Mon, 06 May 2002 15:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? It's not that much different from version 3.3.6 (except for the Windows port), is it? However, I couldn't see much to improve anyway - it's a good editor and the presence of a Windows version makes it even more attractive to me (poor cross-platform developer). Mon, 06 May 2002 15:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? No, it isn't very different externally. Internally there's a lot of changes. From a marketing perspective it probably should have been called 3.7, since it sounds like 4.1 will have more features. I think the program's author has always been a better programmer than a marketer, though.

As for competing on Unix platforms with high-quality free editors like NEdit, VIM and Emacs, it's a good question. I suspect Pepper purchases for those platforms will mostly be people who are used to the editor from BeOS or Mac (or perhaps Windows, now) and want to be using the same editor cross-platform. The main advantage of Pepper to me at this point is that it runs in the Aqua GUI well--Emacs and NEdit both require X, and VIM's Cocoa port is kind of wonky.

Pepper does have some cool features, most notably (to me) the non-modal search function and the different functions relating to marking lines. Mon, 06 May 2002 16:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Hehe, just kidding..... although I would love to update my Pe

Well, it's nice to see Pepper coming to *nix, so I'll have Pepper @ wurq very soon.... and don't have to wait for my new PowerBook this summer.

LoCal Mon, 06 May 2002 17:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I would gladly pay for an editor I could use for PHP/HTML on BeOS if it was more useful than Eddie. I _really_ love Eddie's FTP open/save features... Mon, 06 May 2002 19:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? xfte. xfte is the best damn editor there is. Plus, it runs on like every platform there is.

fte.sourceforge.net Mon, 06 May 2002 23:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? I have to disagree. I believe that jEdit is the best editor available. It will run on any platform that supports Java. has support for just about every editing mode known to man, has a ton of plugins (debugger, tabs, code reformatting, xml, ftp, drag & drop, visual diff tool, etc). And best of all, it is free and rapidly being improved. Check it out at www.jedit.org.

-G Tue, 07 May 2002 02:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? ...is almost great. Just a few usability and speed issues for it to overcome. Tue, 07 May 2002 10:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? You are right that jEdit has some performance issues to overcome, but that is a swing problem, not really a jEdit issue. However, the performance seems to be improved when using JDK 1.4 which has many performance improvements compared to 1.3.

-G Tue, 07 May 2002 19:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread? http://osnews.com/thread? Yup, JEdit is great. I use it currently at work with FreeBSD and Win2k. The performance is not that bad And with SkinLF (Aqua) or Kunststoff it looks great

LoCal Tue, 07 May 2002 19:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments