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I'm looking for a text editor that has the following capabilities:

  • Create multiple windows, to edit more than one file.
  • Split vertical and horizontal any window, to edit different places of the same file.
  • Hotkeys to create the divisions. I don't want use the mouse to access the 'Window' or 'View' menu and then other menu entry and then other more, etc.
  • Hotkeys to jump between the split parts and the different windows.
  • Must run in Windows

The discarded alternatives are gvim and emacs. I don't want to relearn all the typical hotkeys or spend time reconfiguring to make them work almost as any normal editor.

Updated info With normal editor I refer to CUA Compliant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access, http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/FINDBOOK?filter=common+user+access&SUBMIT=Find, thanks @Dan for the last link.

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"The discarded alternatives are gvim and emacs. I don't want to relearn all the tipical hotkeys or spend time reconfiguring to make them work almost as any normal editor" soyou want features that are not in almost any normal editor and you don't want to "abnormal" editors. Where exactly would you expect a reconciliatio of these two (obvious as stated) conflicting goals? – EBGreen Jan 26 at 3:34
@EBGreen: They are not conflicting in any sense. With normal I refer to CUA compliant, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access – voodoomsr Jan 26 at 3:41
@Ps1CsCpp Which text editors have you tried? Is there one which nearly fulfills your requirements? If so, we may be able to find plugins or macros to achieve as much as possible. – iglvzx Jan 26 at 3:45
@Ps1CsCpp it's nice to see that some one else knows about IBM's CUA. did you know that there is an online copy via publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/… – Dan D. Jan 26 at 3:52
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@EBGreen give up on suggesting gvim as it is not CUA compliant, not due to its key binding but due to its insert/edit modes. (i once used gvim via cream which is vim without modes but it didn't give me anything that jedit doesn't have.) – Dan D. Jan 26 at 4:08
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What about jedit? I think it has all you ask for, (unless you add that it must not use java).

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It will be great, I'm going to try it – voodoomsr Jan 26 at 11:39
Tested: pass every requirement, the hotkeys that it use are excellent I can move between files and parts of the same file very fast. Thanks – voodoomsr Jan 26 at 12:25
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Emacs has the features you want.

Enable CUA-mode in:

M-x customize-option
cua-mode
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