Good JavaScript editor?

[igor-111]

Does anybody know a good JavaScript editor?
I’ve tried three: “Antechinus JavaScript Editor”, “Yaldex JSFactory” and “Javascript plus”.
But I don’t know which is better.
Does anybody have any idea? May be more editors?

[Twey]

vim

[jscheuer1]

For windows, Edit Pad Pro.

[Twey]

Vim has a Windows version too.

[Wedgy]

It would be great to have a javascript editor that automatically caught syntax and typing errors, and automatically formatted and perhaps even color-coded parts of your text, i.e., html, xhtml, javascript & css.

Do any of the editors mentioned above do that?

[igor-111]

Yes. I think “Yaldex JSFactory” does most of this (may be all?).

[Twey]

Vim does the colour-formatting bit, though not the others.

[Wedgy]

Looks like you have to buy JSfactory. But it seems to be a good product...
I was hoping for some Linux open source freeware...
oh well.

[Twey]

Quanta is quite good, though it doesn't have syntax/typo checking for Javascript. xored's TruStudio appears to have ECMAScript syntax checking. Haven't tested this.

[jscheuer1]

Edit Pad Pro has a nice feature where if you click or otherwise position the cursor just before a bracket or parenthesis, it draws a 1px box around it and either the corresponding begin or end symbol for it. Works with [, { and (. I believe this behavior is configurable to include any symbol pairing you like. It also will handle a wide variety of languages. It also does syntax highlighting, also configurable but, the defaults are very good. Allows a clip collection for each file type (language). I like it. I do still use FF's console to debug code sometimes though, as it is very hard to miss errors with that.