Your fav editor
 

So spit it up... what's your fav editor, why and for what languages do you use it?

Mine personally is jedit. I use it mainly for java but not exclusively.
Unfortunately for odd reasons jedit refuses to work on my current SuSe machine (damn SuSe for making it so hard to install anything not directly supported by them) so I am forced to alternatives.
I used Zend editor for a while, and it is amazing for PHP (which I am now coding a lot in) the autofunctioncompletion thingee saves sooo much time. But unfortunately I lack the monetary means to continue using it (ie: purchase a license) so I am forced to alternatives.
Right now I use Quanta, which is a nice little editor for Linux, although, having used Zend, I miss my autocompletion like hell.

So what do you use?

Honestly, I tried Linux on the desktop (a whole other thread, I know), and I, overall, don't like it for desktop purposes. Servers its great :)

Back on topic:
I use either TextPad or EditPad 2. Both have unique functions that make them nice.

Yes, Im a MS junkie, so MS Studio and Studio.NET is where I spend alot of my time. But for PHP (when I need it) I use a "free" version of Zend.

TextPad! Greatest text editor I have ever seen.

cat. :p

To be serious, I use vim for almost everything I do:
C, C++, Java, Perl, shell scripting, Lex, Yacc, etc.

The only things I use a different editor for:
.NET languages, at which point I turn to my trusty copy of Visual Studio 2003 .NET (thank you, university, for giving it to me for free)

Yeah, vim is good too. I didnt know how to use it until a month ago, when I was on a machine that didnt have anything else to use, but I learned to like it. I like it a lot more than emacs now.

I use bluejay for java! I'm a noob!

Well, I'm stuck between using JEdit or NetBeanIDE for Java. But JEdit, I use it for Oracle all the time.

tools of the trade for this coder vary widely. on windows: textPad, VC++(the one BEFORE .net, please)
everywhere else: vim, eclipse, jedit, subethaedit, xCode

Saves me time. :D

ooh missed part. languages...
C, C++, Obj-C, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, then the assorted random ones :)

textpad & eclipse are for java, vC++ is for C++ everything else is done in everything else ;) except Obj-C which I do pretty exclusively in xCode

When all else fails: Emacs. It can be a bitch to learn, but it does some handy stuff when you get used to it.

I've recently discovered Eclipse. It's made by IBM, is free, and has a lot of plug-ins for a handful of languages. I've used it for writing, compiling and debugging Java apps and Perl scripts mainly, messed around with some C++ in it as well, and I've been really happy with it.

On a linux/unixbox I use VI, for Windows programming I use the IDE that came with the language (C++ Builder, VB.NET, Delphi). For all other editing I use the old standby, of MS Edit.

I used BlueJay when I did java

I use VI for everything. All the fancy tools may save a split second typing but don't change the amount of time actually spent developing a program.

For debugging purposes I might use an editor that integrates breakpoints with gdb/jdb if it is an extremely large piece of code written by some other person and it's full of holes.

For windows, I use Programmers/Professional File Editor. It opens every format I need. On linux, it's either vi or pico/nano.

gvim all round.

Hal introduced me to Macromedia Homesite 5 and it works just dandy. It has everything i need.

I mostly use it for PHP, CSS and HTML and I'm in the midst of learning java.

Dreamweaver MX or EditPad Pro.

I use nedit when I can, and vi when I have to.

I'm a total cripple with Emacs. The ONLY Emacs command I know is ctrl-c ctrl-x. Which, I guess if you have to know only one, is a pretty good one to know.

nedit rules.

on Windows - UltraEdit. :)

i'm not a 'programmer', so i just use it for HTML, CSS, and any basic text-related things. it's one of the progs i've always got open.

JCreator is the best java IDE for windows environment hands down... I wish the company made a similar one for c++, it has so many nifty features.

Yes, Homesite is a very good program. I use it quite frequently with my web work. I used to use only textpad (and still do occasionally), but homesite is a wonderful program.

scite!
 

i could not live without scite. bult-in syntax checker for a plethora of languages. it also lets you run/compile the program and it captures all the output. for errors it indicates which line is the problem. it has a simple interface and low footprint. in short i love it.

http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html

EditPlus v2.x
i find it clean and simple and never crashes....handy with the long java and c++ programs currently being written with my dissertation...
:)

SciTE for when I'm using x (Wich i rarely do if i have to edit anything), Joe for the console. If only it did syntax highlighting :( Sigh

Emacs is my editor of choice, also use it to chat on IRC (comes up with a lovely little notification with what channels have what sort of new chatter).

I write a bit of PHP, a lot of SQL, and a ton in a custom hacked scripting language (hey, when you have 256k of RAM total on a device and want to do updates on the fly, this is what you do) and emacs works out beautifully, espically the builtin CVS integration. Your fingers just start chording the keys like it's nobodys business.

And as a free bonus, it's ugly as sin which makes it look like I'm doing more difficult programming than anybody else they have ever seen.

SCite rocks for general text editing

Dev C++ will still be my favorite for C/C++
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

Visual SlickEdit on Windows, and vi on Unix.

SlickEdit has some great macro abilities and can recognize and color code many languages. It's also ridiculously configurable.

vi is everywhere, and once you get it down its a dream.

for complicated work i use WinEdt. otherwise Notepad is fine.

For any Linux work, I use VIM (great for C++ and java, although we supposedly switch to Borland stuff next semester, so I don't know how that will go since I haven't used it yet). For Windows stuff, I've switched to the new Visual Studio .Net 2003. They've finally fixed a ton of stuff that I absolutely hated with 2002, plus C++ finally has some much need ISO support, including MUCH better template support. All I can say is About Frickin' Time! hehe.... As for any Web dev, its all about Dreamweaver and PHP.... still experimenting with a good MySQL front end though, haven't found one that I've been really impressed by. Hopefully once the new version of MySQL is released it'll finally give MSSQL a run for its money.

I like useing BBedit on the Mac its powerfull and full featured while clean enough for quick changes to configs.

dreamweaver and homesite (but less of homesite). i just got the new golive as part of the adobe cs, but haven't tried it yet.

Macromedia Homesite 5 is a staple on every windows system I use. I use nothing else.

If I'm on *nix, then I use pico. I still hate vi.

despite all the MS schnizzles,
Visual Studio.NET is by far the most friendly and easiest enviroment i've developed in

Visual Studio for C++ and NetBeans for Java.

my issue w/ BBEdit is they got rid of BBEditLight. I'm too f'in broke to pay that much for a text editor.

When I had a Mac (about 7-8 years ago), I used BBEdit. I still have fond memories of my first days programming in C using BBEdit 4.5 (paid version). :)

Since about 1997, however, I've been strictly a vi-ish person. Preferably vim, but I can live with vi as well. Oh, for the following languages: C, C++, Perl, Python, PHP (obligatory HTML), assembly (various architectures, mainly MIPS and Motorola 68HC12), shell scripts (Bourne/POSIX & korn), ABEL & VHDL (hardware description languages). All of them are well supported by vim syntax highlighting. Go vim! :D

Relax, I think maybe you should have made a poll here. But then, there are a bazillion editors out there and it'd be impossible to cover them all. :)

All we'd need for a proper flame war would be:

VI vs Emacs

:D

VI!! :D

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

hehe it's clean and simple for sure, but it does crash :-)

I accidently opened a 650mb movie file one day ... It didn't like it that much ...

but it's a very good editor idd

Dreamweaver 4 MX, Edit Plus, and VI, here. I have never tried VIM, is that VI on steroids, or what? I am not sure, so any feedback on VIM would be great...

I use eclipse for Java. It's not quite what I would call... stable... but it gets the job done, has a pretty decent debugger, and I love the auto-complete stuff. I can just type what I want, and if i haven't declared a varible, method, or class that I try to use, I can just click the little lightbulb on the side and it'll add it into my code, even adding appropriate import statements and such.

To be fair though, the only other editor I've ever tried for Java is BlueJay, so i don't have much experience to go on. BlueJay was a fine program, but didn't have nearly as many features as Elcipse. Of course, some people like that. Me, I forget stuff all the time, so I like it when my editor yells at me to fix my mistakes instead of just having my code not work :)