Recommendation for Code/Text Editor?

I use PFE. It doesn't do all the clever stuff many other editors do, but works well, is fast, and is free.

Leon

In the order of preference: Slickedit, Multiedit, vi.

IMHO, they both suck (for different reasons :)

Vadim

I use Lemmy, a vi for Windows, because I still find that I can turn ideas into text more quickly with vi than with any other editor and because Lemmy is an excellent Windown implementation of vi. Check it out at

different

I am using Source Insight. This is certainly the best editor you can find. I used both Visual Studio (with Visual Assist) and CodeWarrior - and Source Insight is MUCH MUCH better!!!

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I really like UltraEdit, especially the ease of dong a search and replace in multiple files, including a CR/LF in a search and replace term, and - most important of all - a really good column mode. Any editor that doesn't have a good column mode isn't really suitable for coding. Other nice features are the insert row of incrementing/decrementing numbers (with/without leading zeros), Sum collumn, and easy conersion between DOS/Mac/Unix formats.

I have been doing more and more Linux programming lately; does anyone know of a good text editor for linux that does collumns well?

Slickedit. It runs in Linux and Windows.

Vadim

gvim . Incredibly powerful. A bit of a learning curve but well worth it:

Larry Gagnon

Looks interesting, but unfortunately it's Windows only.

Try textpad, available at textpad.com. You can try it as long as you like, and the price is very reasonable. For windoze only, though, so if you want to become system independent you should look at emacs and vim.

For Unix-style systems with X, try nedit.

Epsilon, from Lugaru, is the finest programmer's editor available. It has all the power of emacs, but the extension language is C (well, C-like) and

It's available for linux and Windows, with an older version available for DOS.

Nedit doesn't provide any of the analysis features of Source Insight, beyond a ctags interface.

David T. Ashley schrieb:

I like the SemWare editor (for DOS) and jEdit (for win and Linux). They are both highly and *easily* configurable and tunable.

Gerhard

You could try the Zeus for Windows programmer's editor/IDE:

Zeus is shareware and as the name suggests Zeus only runs on Windows.

Zeus has many happy users :)

Cheers Jussi

Another vote for the "modern" implementation of vi: gvim.

In addition to the usual arguments for vi ...

1. It doesn't rely on function keys or arrow keys or etc. to get the job done, so you can keep your fingers on the home row instead of all over the keyboard.
2. It doesn't rely on function keys or arrow keys or etc. so you can use it very easily over a serial terminal (when all else fails).
3. It has a powerful command and macro facility.
4. The core editor is small, so it will be found on pretty much any platform that has a C compiler.

... the latest generation adds syntax highlighting and "smarts" for languages ranging from Aap to yacc. It also allows (but does not require) staying edit mode and using the usual mouse and function key conventions.

JEdit is free/open source

Lightweight considering its written in Java Runs under windows/linux + others I like it because it has a good filesystem browser and also has split editing panes. There are lots of plugins too, although I haven't used too many of them.

For screenshots see

I use it mostly for writing c and html.

Regards,

Paul.

Since no editor war can ever possibly be complete without it, let me name the be-all and end-all of editors: (X)Emacs. Maybe the easiest way of describing it is this: if you want your editor to do something, but find that there's no Emacs support for it at all (not even a third-party Elisp macro), take this as a hint that you're probably trying to do the wrong thing.

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There is of course the olden hexadecimal editor with a row of bulbs and toggle and pushbuttons, but is it still in use?

(couldn't resist!)

Real Programmers (TM) use TECO.

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