Comments on: What text editor do you use?

By: Adarsh

Adarsh — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:09:14 +0000

Well, for me, I have found jedit being one of the most convenient editors that I have used so far. What I really like about it is its ability to split screen….really useful when you have to refer to segment of code found in the same file or another. It is true that jedit does not provide all the facilities an IDE will provide (remember the discussion is about text editors and jedit is simply one of the best around according to me).

By: Yasir

Yasir — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:13:20 +0000

I like ubuntu which is more stable than KDE. OMG KDE crashes too frequently. Gnome is more stable and I like to use VIM on ubuntu. It’s a really cool environment although it’s DOS like.

well @ED, when did microsoft improve its features?? Instead of paying programmers for testing they introduced: Click to report this error.

while on linux: download updates and fixes for free! I own a windows mobile smart phone which needs WGA plugin before You can download windows mobile device center. Which means YOU NEED GENUINE WINDOWS VISTA TO USE SMART PHONE UNDER VISTA What’s the use here?

By: Saurav

Saurav — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:08:10 +0000

Its another futile discussion again.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:04:33 +0000

mo ti ne ar vi
mo reste ar vi enfin vim
mais mo ide prefered c visual studio .net
weh microsoft mem mai ki pou fer li bon zafair la

By: Ketwaroo D. Yaasir

Ketwaroo D. Yaasir — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:32:18 +0000

in no order textpad 4 (yes the one we all nicked off the CITS computers), notepad++, ConTEXT, notepad2, notepad. all of them on windows. I’ve tried vim. And I understand your position avinash. but it’s like trying to explain “Drive my Car” by the Beatles to the younger generation…. if you catch my drift…

anyway, notepad++ is overrated… It looks pretty but does a few things well but others not so good… It has juust enough good points for me to keep it for most coding jobs. It’s feels rather buggy at times though…

notepad2, I use mostly with ftp clients. testpad and ConTEXT because I need something more stable than notepad++ at times. and textpad is a bit like my vim.

notepad is good for keeping logs. create a new text document. type “.LOG” on the firs line, without quotes. save and close. reopen. whisper a silent prayer to the good health of all the capitalist running dog hyenas at microsoft corp.

Actually this trick works for all above text editors except notepad++… I think it started with the default notepad.exe that comes with windows though. Do you have that on *nix? Can’t seem to find any reference of it.

I randomly switch between text editors because one has features that the others do not or does something differently. like notepad++’s regular expression search and replace, which I think is broken. And since most of them can detect if a file has been modified by a third party and reload it, I can work n the same script in multiple test editors. It’s not that important how you make it happen as long as it happens. Or better yet, as long as those interested in seeing it happen believe that it has happened.

By: Eddy Young

Eddy Young — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:01:41 +0000

Also note my leet use of the Dvorak keyboard layout, RSI obliges.

Eddy.

By: Eddy Young

Eddy Young — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:58:48 +0000

@Selven: Well, real men use real tools to get real work done

Seriously, having memorised the keyboard shortcuts, I’m mostly blind to the toolbar buttons, but I feel safe knowing that it’s there should I have a temporary memory loss.

And, you haven’t even seen the gazillion of side-frames that I’ve hidden

Eddy.

By: Ash

Ash — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:59:03 +0000

Sir..lol..
For me Eclipse is the best amongst the best of all the IDE available for Java Programming, with its syntax completion this is fabulous.Even@bd they are using Eclipse..But one thing i dnt like at all in eclipse is its editor..for example when developing a web page project it took too much tym to load..

By: selven

selven — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:28:57 +0000

if screenshots is what you want, here’s mine [working on advisare ]

http://thegodof.net/images/xcoderulez.png

its just beautiful, simple and non confusing :p

Eddy, that first screen shot of yours [the editor (not the code)] is enough to get en epileptic sick in 15 minutes of work!!! that’s a torture weapon bright as the sun and with options that keeps on looking like weird ogres oogling at the coder, plus it has scissors, hammers and all!!! dangerous stuff.. lmao

Though the second one is nice enough

+$3|v3n

By: avinash

avinash — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:53:50 +0000

If you look closely, Eddy, you’ll see that the TextMate screenshot shows a small Ruby script that asks the user for the name of an artist (or a group), queries Audioscrobbler (last.fm) for the top tracks of this artist and displays the top 10 tracks. As a matter of fact, I regularly use this script to build playlists in iTunes…

As for the Eclipse screenshot, it is displaying a Java app I wrote some years back to demonstrate design patterns to my students. Interestingly, I wrote in at the MCCI using methods and attributes names in french. When I moved to the UoM, I used the extensive refactoring facilities of Eclipse to rename everything to english…