Name your favorite text editor or development environment

[twistedcranium]

Some programmers use only plain text editing programs and others use full featured IDEs (integrated development environment).

Share your favorites with fellow programmers and those looking to become programmers.

[twistedcranium]

My entry for favorite programming tool in Windows based environments is: Programmers Notepad
http://www.pnotepad.org/

For linux though, I typically use a mix of Anjuta IDE, Emacs, and plain old vi with some tweaks.

[MishY]

I use UltraEdit for programming C++, HTML, XML, Perl and PHP.

Really is the best text editor I've used on a PC

[lufbra]

I have Note Tab Lite here, and quite like that one!!

[R4NG3R]

Does it really matter? Can't we just use like Notepad or Text Editor for linux?

[twistedcranium]

Originally posted by R4NG3R
Does it really matter? Can't we just use like Notepad or Text Editor for linux?

It will matter if you're sitting in front of thousands of lines of code.

Yes a simple plain text editor will work...but after awhile you find that having a more advanced text editor will help make your programming life easier.

examples to be found in advanced editors and IDEs:

-auto tabbing to help indent code blocks
-colored highlighting of code sections to differentiate variables from strings from assignment statements from procedures etc.
-automatically keeping track of your brackets and braces.....when the cursor is at a brace, the matching brace changes color...helps with ensuring that you have brackets and braces matched
-IDEs have compilier and interpreters built in to make the build processes easier.
-debugging tools are also available through IDEs
-advanced text editors can handle larger files than the generic textpads like windows notepad.

I could go on longer, but I must get back to work.....

[R4NG3R]

wow

thousands of lines of code.
thousands of lines of code.
thousands of lines of code.

wow

well then ya i guess it does matter!

[i8088user]

the issue of fav programs is a point of argument among (what encarta calls "Computerphiles") i must say my fav was made locally in my area but is no longer up... it was called CodeEdit... was made for HTML but did so much more... i still have a copy if people want it... but i have to say it depends on the language in HTML i now use HTMLKit or cEdit (from source forge) and text editors for scripts... i use sun products along with a weird mix of microsofts and suns SDKS for JAVA... and i still use MSDOS edit for many aspects of my work... along with notepad and write.

[inertiascience]

Hia, I'm a first-time programmer, learning Java 2. I was wondering if any of the stuff posted here would work with that language.

[twistedcranium]

Hello inertia...

As far as J2 (aka Java2), plain text editors will do just fine with editing the code. Now most plain text editors don't really care if what you're editing is html or java or tcl code, it just shows your ascii code and lets you edit it.

Now as you get into the 'smarter' editors, they tend to have highlighting 'schema' (fancy name for rules) that are based on certain types of code languages. For example, the Programmers Notepad has schemes available for Java and JavaScript. Now the differences between the first specification of Java and Java 2 (aka the second spec) may not be picked up in the schema, but in this case all that means is that the highlighting may not work properly because of new elements it doesn't know about.

As for Java programming....I would check out
http://developer.java.sun.com/develo...reference.html
for the Sun Java Development team's recommendations on tools and such.

[degsy]

Personally, for HTML (and a little PHP), I use Dreamweaver's Code View.

But here is a nice PHP Utility
http://ozu.arecom-sa.com/

Not sure if it supports any other languages