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Posted by troycoroles
troycoroles
1,146 Points

online text editors

The reason I'm searching for an online text editor is because my computer seems to be having some sort of issue with notepad ++ lately

I did a quick search for "online text editors" and found a few, I wanted to see if any of you use an online text editor instead of notepad ++/sublime/text wrangler.

I want to find one with some good features and am hoping for some good feedback.

5 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

The best one that I use is codepen.

troycoroles
troycoroles
1,146 Points

thanks! I like the look of codepen.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I use Cloud9 pretty significantly.

troycoroles
troycoroles
1,146 Points

Thanks! this lcloud9 looks awesome, I'll give their free version a try

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Looks good!

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

That's all I use, is the free account. Sometimes as a site grows you can use too much memory, in which point it kills your server and resets itself. Just have to start the server and continue. Minor nuisance but not enough for me to want to pay yet.

Nice clean, disposable virtual machine to practice in.

Eric Iocca
Eric Iocca
2,704 Points

I cant seem to figure out how to preview my site on Cloud9. i click the preview button but then nothing happens it just brings up a blank page on the right side of the screen.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

What kind of environment are you working in Eric? If you have a backend language you usually have to fire up the built in server first.

Christian Kroul
Christian Kroul
9,849 Points
Christian Kroul
Christian Kroul
9,849 Points

If you want a free text editor, thats hackable, i suggest atom

troycoroles
troycoroles
1,146 Points

what do you mean hackable?

Christian Kroul
Christian Kroul
9,849 Points
Christian Kroul
Christian Kroul
9,849 Points

Its customizable

Eric Iocca
Eric Iocca
2,704 Points
Eric Iocca
Eric Iocca
2,704 Points

ah..i see. thanks Kevin!!