Using a Text Editor in combination with GUTS is a good practice. Using plain old Notepad is not the best option. You're better off choosing a more powerful editor, which can search and replace text across multiple files, has syntax highlighting and other useful features.

In this post I'll make a list of suggested text editors to use. I'll write up a short description for each later. Please post links to other good editors you know.

Editor list:

Notepad ++

Sublime Text

Geany

Vim

Look how old this thread is!!! 


Recently I've started messing with Microsoft Visual Studio Code editor (VS Code).


VS Code works on the different platforms. I think it has some potential.  I like the "side by side" window view when comparing files. I wish it had a tab view, but I'm hoping that will be implemented soon.

I decided it needed an Ogre3d syntax highlighter. Fortunately, VS Code uses the same tmLanguage definitions as sublime. After poking around a bit I got the highlighting working for the material files.

If anyone else wants to try it out, I've attached a zip of the Ogre 3d extension I put together.
I got the tmLanguage definition from here: https://github.com/TheSHEEEP/ST-OgreScripts

I was thinking I could make a syntax highlighting extension for the various torchlight ascii files if there is interest.