Still looking for an editor

I downloaded 4 editors / IDEs to look at. The first is xCode by apple. I am sure it does a lot, but I wanted to just write some simple Javascript and see what would happen. I got lost pretty quickly in xCode. I am sure that it does a lot more than I know how to do. I tried for about 5 minutes and I even clicked on their tutorial. I wasn't able to get anything to look like editing Javascript.

I next looked at Aptana. A very complex IDE also, but the first thing that came up was a tutorial. It was a video that I was able to share the screen with and follow along. I finally created a javascript file and saw the context highlighting and suggestions. A very good start that was very much helped by the cheating video. Downside is that the video did not match my look.

I launched KompoZer. This seems to be a very low end editor that is trying to do more. Javascript wasn't an option that I could find. It did seem to offer quick HTML editing, but that is not what I am trying to do.

I lastly tried Smultron. The author simply states that he is not going to do any more updates. It was easy to launch and was nothing more than an editor. I liked it a lot. It was simple and I was able to get started pretty easily.

So after spending 30 minutes I have eliminated just KompoZer. I am going to look at the others in depth a little more.