vim all the way. :)

kedit, but any "edit" flavor with a single letter in front will do.

I'm forced to use vi when I work on my runlevel3 Linux firewalls. I still use a cheat sheet. ;-)

vi, of course. emacs is too bloated for my taste.

Using Debian/Solaris/AIX/IRIX.

Source Insight -
The best source searching, symbol database, etc.

Sun ONE for Java. I love how it fills in variable names for you, saves so much time for those programs in the thousands of lines of code. For C/C++ I use codewarrior, or VC++.

I have to agree with the VIM users. Very very productive. EMACS is a close second though.

Netbeans and Crimson both good editors.

I use Crimson Editor. Tabbed and powerful and damn fast.

I'd use vi if I still had a *nix box around.

VIM. I used to feel pretty clunky in it, but I try to pick up a new thing every week or so. Most recent things I've learned: * and # search forwards and backwards for the word under the cursor. ^N and ^P do keyword completion.

my $really_lo^N
my $really_long_variable_name : )

I haven't gotten a good basis of movement commands, so I'm still lazy and use visual mode a lot. Picking up the keyboard arrow keys (h, j, k, l to move around) is REALLY handy. I recommend giving it a try if you haven't.

edlin!

No, seriously, vim is the best text editor I have ever used. Not that I would force everybody to use it, but it does just what I want, and the things it doesn't do, I make it do.

In windows I use UltraEdit or notepad.

In Linux (where I usually am) it's all about vim. It's great.

For Windows, I am a big fan of EditPlus. It has everything I need from an editor, and nothing I don't. Very fast and reliable.

For Linux, I use Emacs, simply because its the only one I know enough about to use be able to use it.

I do all my development on Linux.

For editing, nothing can beat vim, IMHO. It's the only text editor I've ever used where my ability to input/move text has outstripped my internal command queue (that is to say, for a second or two I was typing faster than I could think). Hell of a learning curve, but from the long end it's not unlike a direct brain->textfile interface.

For development, at least Java development, I am currently heavily addicted to Eclipse. It's free, and it integrates enough features and power that I finally begin to understand what all this noise about GUI IDEs is all about. :D Being able to immediately *see* compiler errors anywhere in your project anytime you save a file, or run an Ant task by selecting it from a pull-down menu, or do a CVS commit by right-clicking on the root directory of your project and selecting Team->Commit... off the context menu...

I suspect that at least *some* of this functionalilty can be had in vim, but since I haven't yet completed my 10th Dan ranking in vim-fu, I don't know how to do those things. Eclipse makes it eas{y|ier}.

Either jstar or notepad... depending on circumstances.

Edit: Kedit when I'm in KDE.

VI is my friend! Before that I was using Kate!

Textpad and Eclipse!

Eclipse was really good, actually...

I'm a TextPad man myself. On Linux, though, I usually use Joe (as it's what's installed on the servers at work).

Really need to learn either vi or emacs...

I use either vim or kate, although jedit is good also. It depends on what I'm working on. Mostly Java and shell scripts, occasionally C or Perl.

BBEdit, vi and emacs.

Textpad. I use it for HTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, etc. I'm used to it and it's easy to use, there's not much more I could want in it.

Actually, I'm using 4.5, but still absolutely the best web editor I've found. (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, and PHP)

I also use Visual Studio 6 for VB & C++ for Windows only. ANSI C++ and *nix is Bloodshed's Dev C++, a great gcc enabled compiler.

I'm probably going to be learning pearl soon, so I hope that Homesite can help me there, but don't know yet.

bbedit or claris home page

gigawatz: #1: it's perl. ;) (that should help w/ the google searches and whatnot).
#2: any text editor will do for perl. I know textpad has syntax coloring for it... not sure what else does in windows... any general purpose text editor should.

VIM runs in windows (and in pretty much every other OS/platform out there) so NO EXCUSES! i want UltraEdit and Notepad collecting dust immediately!!!;)

Java -> Eclipse or JEdit
C/C++ -> Arjuna (Linux), vi, emacs, perhaps UltraEdit
VLSI / VHDL -> UltraEdit
XML/XSL/HTML -> jEdit

Yes I write in too many languages too often, but I guess this is the joy of being a programmer and a grad student.

when I use Java I use BlueJ, it doesnt have the hardcore bells and whistles but it does an awesome job for such a tiny program.

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on solairs i use vim
but on windows i use vim
so when i have to use a mac, im forced to use vim.

:D

you can never go wrong with vim... who needs a mouse?

textpad / vi

I use scite for general purpose editing (php, html, css, etc), and anjuta for c/c++.

I'm trying to learn gvim, but it has a *very* steep learning curve. I've heard nothign but glowing reviews from its users though. Does anyone know of a place where I can find a really great, comprehensive and step-by-step tutorial on learning vim? I'm more or less familiar with a few of the common commands (i, d, etc :P), but would love to learn more.

I'm doing most of my work in GNU Emacs these days, but I'll use VIM when I just need to do a quick edit. Too many years of reflex training invested in VIM to just drop it :)

Crimson editor all the way... I got Zend Studio but I just kept going back to Crimson...

:help tutor is a good starting point, if you haven't tried it already. You might want to check out http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Administration/Vi-201 if you'd like to look at a little more after the basic built-in tutorial.

BBEdit has all the features I need, but auto-completion would be nice.

I use it mostly for html and PHP.

I tried a program for OS X called SubEthaEdit, it allows for multiple people editing the same document, with different colored text for each.

I'm a n00b, so I use Codewarrior and netbean.

Xemacs or emacs, on windows, linux, solaris, whatever I can.

I code c/perl/java/assemby. And I also write documentation with it either in text or latex.

UNIX: (g)vim - x86 assembly (I love it, but oh I hate it), C, Perl
Windows: gvim or Visual Studio - depends on if I'm doing assembly/perl or C/C#

I thought I'd bring this back up with a question:

Can anyone recommend an editor for Windows that has syntax highlighting (for multiple languages, preferably) as well as a built-in SFTP support? I want to be able to open files on a remote server, edit them, then they get sent back to the remote server automatically when I save them. Oh, and hopefully it's free. :)

Moskie, look in Tilted Computers, more specifically http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=50380 here...
I dunno if any of them have the remote ftp, but I know it's alll about syntax highlighting

gvim. totally. I use it everywhere from C++ to latex to little notes and html. Works well. Don't care if you use Emacs or whatever, so lets not get into a flame war. As long as its Emacs, Vi or ed :P