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From: L. Michel Espinoza-Fonseca (mef_at_ddt.biochem.umn.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2008 - 10:58:59 CDT

Yes! Moreover, both vim and emacs have the advantage of *not*
including "hidden" characters (spaces, for instance). This caused me
some problems in the past, specially when using APBS.

Best,
Michel

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Peter Freddolino <petefred_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Just to clear up a misconception I've seen in a couple places, both vim
> (http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc) and emacs
> (http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/) are available for windows; that
> doesn't mean they're better choices than the windows-specific editors that
> have been mentioned in this thread, but I wanted to point out that those
> options are open regardless of your platform.
> Best,
> Peter
>
> Suman Chakrabarty wrote:
>>
>> Notepad++ ( http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net ) can be another good
>> choice for Windoze. At least I use that to edit codes in that platform (on
>> rare occasions when I need to). :)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Suman.
>>
>>
>>
>> bo liu wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Alejandro,
>>> UltraEdit would be the best choice for you under Windows,
>>> Under linux, as mentioned by others, plenty of choices.
>>>
>>> I don't know exactly what tast you are dealing with,
>>> if you are preparing input files for NAMD simulations, Tcl scripting plus
>>> VMD built-in commands can do almost everything.
>>> it pays off if you spend sometime to learn Tcl scripting.
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>
>