Memories
Back in the old days, when I was a younger lad, scribbling my Clipper and C programs, I used QEdit by SemWare. (Nowadays the QEdit name seems to have been trademarked by another company).
It was an awesome little editor, blazingly fast and feature rich enough to stay with me for quite some years of programming. One of the great things about QEdit was I could carry it around on a floppy; the .exe file was only some 30Kb in size. When the time came and I needed more power, I tried Brief but quickly turned to Multi-Edit.
All these editors did a great job at what they were meant for while keeping their own footprint reasonable.
Today, I’m using ActiveState Komodo Edit, and as I type this, I’ve got a couple of PHP files loaded. Nothing special, maybe 50Kb worth of text. When I just started the Windows Taskmanager to see what was slowing me down, I was flabbergasted by the amount of memory that Komodo consumes; a stunning 100Mb.
Now, I’m sure the source highlighting and syntax checking come at a price, but this seems a bit steep…
