Code editors

dXtr · Post by **dXtr** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:45 am

I thought it could be interesting to see what everyone use when writing code and also see if there's better editors out there that I've missed.

Personally I first started out in the old DOS editor edit and then moved on to notepad. But as I use Visual Studio a lot too I've gotten used to syntax hi-lighting and all those other fancy things.
So I moved over to notepad++ and have been using it mainly for ASM and for platforms that isn't supported my MSVC (just about everything except Windows). But then one day when I was going to do some refactoring using regular expressions I noticed that the regexp support in notepad++ was crap, I've also been missing the ability to split windows in notepad++, something I find very useful when editing on multiple places in a file.
So I'm now looking for a better editor to replace notepad++.
I've been looking into emacs and it seems like a good option, except for it's millions of keyboard commands that I need to learn in order to do anything at all in the program. And also that it's recommended to learn lisp if you want to do any more advanced customizations on the editor. I have no problem learning lisp.. it's just that I've never had the time to learn lisp.

So what do you all use? And anyone got any recommendations for a good editor?

Nessie · Post by **Nessie** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:21 am

I use Eclipse for everything - Java, perl, python, bash, html/css/javascript, php, etc. It's got everything you need for most platforms - debugger, unit testing, source control, browser, bug tracker client... I'm actually amazed by its feature set every day!

I don't do any C/C++ or .NET coding though, Eclipse probably sucks at that so you'd be better off with VS.
Code::Blocks is a decent free C/C++ IDE if you want to target non-microsoft platforms.

As for a simple text editor, I use notepad++ myself and haven't found any better alternative yet. Of course, UltraEdit is a lot better but it's not free unless you get the crack.

gannon · Post by **gannon** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:18 am

I used to just use a standard text editor, preferably a one with syntax highlighting when available. Currently I've been using eclipse for most stuff, but mainly because I've mostly only been doing Java for school projects (the IDE makes it easier to manage/test)

dXtr · Post by **dXtr** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:26 am

Nessie wrote:As for a simple text editor, I use notepad++ myself and haven't found any better alternative yet. Of course, UltraEdit is a lot better but it's not free unless you get the crack.

Had totally forgot about UltraEdit remember it having some pretty nice features too. Maybe I should get trial and see if it got what I'm looking for.

Also been thinking of trying SlickEdit too as I've heard much good about it.

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:54 am

I use Notepad++. It's got pretty decent features and is free.

No Carrier · Post by **No Carrier** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 5:53 am

I use Context with the with 6502 highlighter.

Zepper · Post by **Zepper** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:53 am

- Dev-C++ together with Wordpad, since 99% of the text files (inside ZIP files from here) are not opened correctly with Notepad.