Favorite text editor/IDEs?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-09-27 08:58pm

In descending order:
Eclipse
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SciTE
nano
KATE
Emacs (never used XEmacs)
Quanta Plus
JEdit
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pNotepad
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MSVC IDE- forgot details about it... since it's not VB, better than what's below.
MSVB IDE- would be above nano if it wasn't MS and VB... or maybe not, since the only good thing about it is the GUI builder, and that's not text editing.
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Notepad
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GVim
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vi
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ed- never used it, but line editing has got to be horrible

It's in order of actual usefulness and preference, since for example, anything slightly worse than SciTE will score lower than nano, since I use nano for console editing, and so another inferior graphical editor is useless.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-09-27 09:25pm

metapad

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-09-27 09:35pm

Paper and pencil.

In Windows I use notepad for plaintext stuff like HTML, as well as for PHP programs; DevC++ for C++ editting.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2003-09-28 12:49am

In UNIX/Linux -- pico . . . it's stupid it's simple. I like stupid and simple. Certainly better than either emacs or vi from that viewpoint (both requiring the memorization of horrible and insane key combinations.) Although emacs in it's GUI form is pretty damned nice.

Windows -- notepad or wordpad. Stupid and simple. I like simple and stupid.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-09-28 12:58am

KWrite and vi. Like it or not, vi is available on every UNIX system in the world, and is good enough for quickly fixing conf files in text mode. Very handy when you need to ssh into somebody's server and edit some files.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-09-28 01:00am

I'm a windows user; I use Notepad.

However, for all my UNIX needs, I have become proficient in vi. It's really quite handy, once you get the hang of it.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-09-28 01:00am

I'm a big fan of lots of features. AFAIK nano is supposed to be a GPLed pico clone, with optional highlighting and various other features you can activate.

Emacs is ok, you can memorize them after awhile. The problem is that I forgot the keys, since I never use it due to longer loading time than nano. Used to use it for awhile, since it was the only editor I had on LFS that didn't insert hard line breaks other than vi, to type up homework. Now of course I use OO.
Vi is just horrible.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-09-28 01:24am

TeXnicCenter for LaTeX typesetting on Windows. GEdit for text editing on Linux, though I also use nano.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-09-28 02:43am

MS VC6 IDE is the best. Too bad they replaced it with VC.net one.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-09-28 11:22am

I use NEdit for most heavy tasks, and Joe for when I want to quickly edit a file in console mode.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-09-28 01:08pm

For a command-line editor, pico is the finest.
For a GUI editor, I like BBEdit, and love JEdit.
XCode is an excellent IDE all around. It makes file navigation within a project very easy.
For LaTeX, iTeXMac is superb in terms of features and interface. The only problem is that its syntax-coloring code is slower than shit, which makes editing a very sluggish experience.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-09-28 02:09pm

Darth Wong wrote:KWrite and vi. Like it or not, vi is available on every UNIX system in the world, and is good enough for quickly fixing conf files in text mode. Very handy when you need to ssh into somebody's server and edit some files.

Hehe, my system doesn't have vi installed. I used to use it. For some reason, there was a time which I thought emacs was a lot harder than vi though... after not using vi for awhile, being spoiled by nano I have completely forgotten how to use vi, and I'm not willing to learn.

BTW, KATE is simply kwrite embedded with a file manager, mulitiple document interface, and a console.

Hehe, it's actually possible to edit text using only dd, echo, and cat in case you want to avoid vi at all costs.

Yay. I now have a rudimentary knowledge of ed. Looks like it's even easier than vi. Maybe have to move it up on list

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-09-28 03:21pm

For Windows, if you don't want to use Micro$hit stuff, but still want some good functionality (and built-in package support for stuff like gcc and wxwindows), you can get Dev-C++. Besides, the company is called Bloodshed Software. Who wouldn't like a program made by a company called bloodshed.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-09-28 04:17pm

I like Wordpad.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-09-28 04:25pm

I use Microsoft Word

*runs away*

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-09-28 08:03pm

Shinova wrote:I use Microsoft Word

*runs away*

That's not text editing; it's word processing.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-09-28 08:11pm

I tend to use notepad, but that's simply because its handy and I tend to just want to "jot down" things and keep them safe.....

Symmetry · Post by **Symmetry** » 2003-09-28 08:51pm

I usually use notepad on windows and emacs on unix, but that might just be bacause I haven't had experience with better things. Still, you only ask so much of a text editor.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-09-28 11:57pm

Symmetry wrote:I usually use notepad on windows and emacs on unix, but that might just be bacause I haven't had experience with better things. Still, you only ask so much of a text editor.

When you do serious work, you ask a lot of a text editor. Being able to use regular expressions for search and replace, for example.

StimNeuro · Post by **StimNeuro** » 2003-09-29 02:39am

I personally like Textpad. Usable to open nearly any file, like notepad, and has Java extensions(Compile, Run, Run Applet).

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-09-29 05:08am

PFE, Dev C++, and vi are the three I use most.