Wingide is a beautiful application

[jussij at zeusedit.com]

> I gave Zeus a try and it passed loading of a large (100 MByte)
> text file (many other text editors fail here).

Zeus is not designed as a large file editor :(

It will try to load the entire file into memory so when you open
these very large files the RAM is quickly used up.

> It looks at the first glance quite good, but I am a bit lost
> because of so many different menu items.

Zeus is fairly complex just because it has so many features (ie class
browsing, intellisening, compiler support, ftp editing, templates,
macros, workspaces etc etc).

For this reason I would recommend:
    1) Select the Help, Help Contents Menu
    2) Click on the User Manual section
    3) Click on the Quick Start section
    3) Read a few of the Quick Start links

> Compared to UltraEdit/SPE I am missing the column mode I
> extensively use in my everyday work (rectangular select/copy/paste
> is there)

Zeus has several text marking modes one of which is column marking:

   http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60
   http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=197

> and the autocompletion of any input word as e.g. a very long
> variable names I have defined in preceeding text.

This feature should be available via the Edit, Auto Complete Word
menu. If it is not working correctly this could be a bug :(

> I was not yet able to find how to change the font in the text area

Options, Editor Options menu, Fonts section and change the
baseline font for the Document View.

> and how to get rid of the italics used for displaying strings.

The syntax highlighting is defined in what Zeus calls a document
type. These are listed using the Options Document Types menu.

So for example to change this for the Python files, edit the
Python Document Type and in the Coloring section, select the
line and block comment categories and un-check the italic
option for this category.

> In UltraEdit I can choose any font in any style available
> on the system for the text area and in the syntax highlighting
> I can use bold/italics style.

The two menus mentioned above do exactly this.

> Code folding for Python is there, but I run into the problem
> of not folding the code of a Python class.

If you post a small example of code to the code folding
section of the Zeus forum:

  http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8

This will be get fix if it is at all possible to do so.

> but probably with not sufficient support for Python specifics,

Just out of curiosity, what "Python specifics" features would
think are missing?

> In my eyes with $40 for a license a worth to be evaluated
> professional editor, but not for me because of lack(?) of
> the column mode and not (yet?) found possibility to select
> a font for the in the editing area displayed text.

As mentioned above, Zeus does have these features ;)

Jussi Jumppanen
Author: Zeus for Windows