<p>could anyone recommend a Windows text editor with relatively aesthetically pleasing font types?</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Microsoft word?</p>
<p>What are you trying to get at? And why is this in the CMU forums?</p>
<p>You say "programming editor", so you're looking for an environment to program in? An IDE? In that case for Java I recommend JCreator and for C++ I recommend Borland C++.</p>
<p>Recommend Eclipse for Java IDE. quite good stuff.</p>
<p>It might not be a bad idea to try out some of the linux editors to get a hang for them. They can be annoying at first, as they have a different philosophy on how things should work... but useful when you take systems classes.</p>
<p>Programmer's</a> Notepad is a spectacular programming text editor. Totally free, loads nearly as fast as windows notepad, does syntax highlighting for tons of different languages..</p>
<p>It's lightweight, and doesn't do things that you wouldn't want it to. (Microsoft word saves by default in a proprietary format, etc.)</p>
<p>It's an all-around great editor for Java, web languages, assembly, and most other languages. I prefer something like Microsoft Visual Studio for C++ because there's a compile and run button, but for everything else, this is what I use.</p>
<p>One last great feature - Collapsable functions. You can collapse</p>
<p>void function(){
blahblahblah;
stuff(here);
} </p>
<p>into
+ void function(){}</p>
<p>When you click on the plus, it expands the function so that you can see the source for it. Keep every function collapsed unless you're actively changing it. Great for organizing and finding parts of your code quickly.</p>
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<p>CMU intro courses use Eclipse for Java in class, but you can use whatever you want. My friends have found Eclipse and Notepad++ to be particularly useful in Windows.</p>
<p>In *nix, depending on your preferences, I would suggest trying vim, emacs, and kate (part of KDE) and seeing what works for you.</p>
<p>I use JCreator, mostly because my AP Comp Sci teacher near-forced it on us. I liked it but I also didn't give the other options much of a shot.</p>
<p>Eclipse is very similar to JCreator, by the way. I use it to program robots, for all else I use JCreator, because I like the interface better.</p>
<p>I dislike most windows IDEs because the font type is so ugly. programming notepad has relatively pretty font type</p>
<p>I cast my vote for Eclipse.</p>