#403 external text editor

[Anonymous]

it would be nice if there was a possibility to use an
external text editor in the dev-c++, this would answer
many of the feature requests here. Personally I would try
to connect notepad++ keeping its own coloring
schemese, regexps and so on...

[Punnu]

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That would be a very cool feature indeed.

[Chris Severance]

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The IDE would be poorly served by an external editor because
the IDE wouldn't be able to control anything. Notepad++ (SF)
is a superb editor mainly because the Scintilla (SF) edit
control that N++ uses is miles ahead of anything else in
it's class, including SynEdit (SF), the edit control that
Dev-C++ uses (AFAIK). I just did the 30 second tryout of
Programmer's Notepad and again, Scintilla and Notepad are
miles ahead.

I think what you're asking is for IDE to drop the SynEdit
control and switch to Scintilla, an oft requested feature.

Keep in mind that because N++ and Dev-C++ both watch for
file changes from other programs, you can use N++ right now
with only minimal hassle. I do this when I need something
that the IDE editor can't handle easily.

You might also be asking for Dev-C++ to provide a plugin
interface so we can easily implement our own text
transforms. I'm having fun building a large plugin for N++
so I get to use Scintilla extensively. Scintilla is nifty
but no editor can beat an editor that you get to write your
own quick-n-dirty transforms.