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Title: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Gunther on July 13, 2012, 11:00:01 PM
I'm using currently notepad++ for my Windows assembly language projects. Does anyone know another alternative editor with syntax highlighting etc?

Gunther
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: jcfuller on July 13, 2012, 11:38:19 PM
I use RadAsm3 for most of my editing (PowerBASIC, BCX, UBX, JWasm, Masm, gcc, g++ .....)
http://masm32.com/board/index.php?board=24.0
James
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: MichaelW on July 14, 2012, 02:22:40 AM
I use SciTE for almost everything.

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Gunther on July 14, 2012, 06:01:57 AM
Mike,

QuoteI use SciTE for almost everything.

Good hint, the language schemes (including TEX) are impressive. On the other hand, it should also work under Linux. I think, I'll give it a try.

Gunther
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: anta40 on July 14, 2012, 10:48:29 AM
vim (http://www.vim.org/) is also a good choice. It supports several assembler syntax like MASM, FASM, NASM, etc. And it's runnable as Windows or console app.
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Gunther on July 14, 2012, 11:03:46 AM
Quote from: anta40 on July 14, 2012, 10:48:29 AM
vim (http://www.vim.org/) is also a good choice. It supports several assembler syntax like MASM, FASM, NASM, etc. And it's runnable as Windows or console app.

Yes, the famous vi. Although the handling is a bit cryptic, there are some authors, which have written entire book manuscripts with the vi.

Gunther
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: carlos on July 14, 2012, 01:36:32 PM
Geany, if you want it free, ultraedit, if you want features, the late you must pay for, but is a steal!!!!
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: jj2007 on July 14, 2012, 05:24:55 PM
Quote from: Gunther on July 13, 2012, 11:00:01 PM
I'm using currently notepad++ for my Windows assembly language projects. Does anyone know another alternative editor with syntax highlighting etc?

Hallo Gunther,

Hast Du jemals einen Blick auf RichMasm geworfen - im MasmBasic (http://masmforum.com/~masm32/board/index.php?topic=94)-Package? Ich benutze nichts anderes, u.a. weil ich die individuelle Formatierung brauche...

Gruss Jochen
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: mywan on July 17, 2012, 02:19:29 PM
I use SciTE for all my text editing. It has code highlighting for about every language and an output pane for debugging. Presently I'm working on user calltip settings for MASM, as I'm not yet proficient at remembering the meaning of a lot of even basic asm keywords. I would also like to add in some html based context sensitive MASM help, fairly easily done with SciTE. If done you could just put the cursor on the key word and hit F1 and it takes you to a page specific to that key word with examples and all. You can also configure any number of hotkeys to call up any number of existing help files in the SDK and/or web resources, local or otherwise. It also has macro capabilities. So you can type in a keyword and hit the macro function hotkeys and it'll replace your key word with as complex a macro as you want to define for it.
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Gunther on July 18, 2012, 05:17:56 AM
Quote from: mywan on July 17, 2012, 02:19:29 PM
I use SciTE for all my text editing. It has code highlighting for about every language and an output pane for debugging. ...
/quote]

Yes, I've checked it. SciTE is impressive. Thank you for the hint.

Gunther
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: hutch-- on July 20, 2012, 08:47:59 AM
 :biggrin:

Now when all else fails, you can always write your own.  :shock:
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Bill Cravener on July 20, 2012, 08:27:00 PM
Syntax highlighting? Nah, real assembly programmers us notepad. :biggrin:
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Gunther on July 20, 2012, 09:41:53 PM
Bill,

Quote from: Bill Cravener on July 20, 2012, 08:27:00 PM
Syntax highlighting? Nah, real assembly programmers us notepad. :biggrin:

No, not really. They're using wordstar.  :greenclp:

Gunther
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: dedndave on July 20, 2012, 10:35:23 PM
i thought we were all using EDLIN...
*?
Edit line                   line#
Append                      [#lines]A
Copy                        [startline],[endline],toline[,times]C
Delete                      [startline][,endline]D
End (save file)             E
Insert                      [line]I
List                        [startline][,endline]L
Move                        [startline],[endline],tolineM
Page                        [startline][,endline]P
Quit (throw away changes)   Q
Replace                     [startline][,endline][?]R[oldtext][CTRL+Znewtext]
Search                      [startline][,endline][?]Stext
Transfer                    [toline]T[drive:][path]filename
Write                       [#lines]W
*

the ultimate in light-weight editors   :t
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: sinsi on July 20, 2012, 10:38:06 PM
copy con test.asm
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: dedndave on July 20, 2012, 10:40:22 PM
^Z   :biggrin:
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Bill Cravener on July 21, 2012, 12:04:01 AM
Lets not forget MS-DOS Edit. I used it in the old days of DOS and it still comes with Windows XP, Vista 32bit and Win 7 32bit if I'm not mistaken. That is if you care to use it. :biggrin:
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Gunther on July 21, 2012, 02:08:17 AM
Quote from: dedndave on July 20, 2012, 10:35:23 PM
i thought we were all using EDLIN...

Oh yes, what a nice editor. One could process file sizes above 64 KB, if I remember it right.

Quote from: Bill Cravener on July 21, 2012, 12:04:01 AM
Lets not forget MS-DOS Edit. I used it in the old days of DOS and it still comes with Windows XP, Vista 32bit and Win 7 32bit if I'm not mistaken. That is if you care to use it. :biggrin:

That's another alternative. :t

Gunther
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: dedndave on July 22, 2012, 01:49:52 AM
i can remember when that was all we had - lol
your other choices were to grab a pirate copy of word star or word perfect and use "save as text"
it wasn't long before i found a copy of PC Write by Bob Wallace   :t
for $10, you got a lot of functions - some of which i still do not find in today's editors
it was free, if you didn't mind the splash screen on start-up
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: FORTRANS on July 22, 2012, 06:25:49 AM
Hi,

   I used the WordPerfect Programmer's Editor back
when.  And still do.  I got used to it and it has a good
macro system.  And have used vi just enough to
do something useful with it if needed.

Cheers,

Steve N.
Title: Re: ASM editor for Windows
Post by: Shintaro on July 22, 2012, 11:43:23 AM
I have always liked Winasm.
http://www.winasm.net/winasm-studio-full-package.html