geekhack

geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: graywolf on Mon, 18 August 2008, 18:42:12

Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: graywolf on Mon, 18 August 2008, 18:42:12
A sibling for the Favorite Writing Program thread, what is you favorite editor for programing, scripting, html, etc.

I like EditPad Lite a lot, especially for html, most of my, temporarily defunct, website was done with it. I tried EditPad Pro, but it is more of an IDE than an editor and more that I needed. The extra features just got in my way.
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: bigpook on Mon, 18 August 2008, 18:54:20
I vote for vim, gvim or gedit.
OpenOffice if I need something fancy.
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: iMav on Mon, 18 August 2008, 19:50:42
Typically ends up being vi.  But if I am in front of my Mac, I make it a point of using TextMate for any coding
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: zillidot on Mon, 18 August 2008, 19:56:43
Another vote for vim/gvim from me.
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: ashort on Mon, 18 August 2008, 20:25:29
copy con
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: D-EJ915 on Mon, 18 August 2008, 23:07:47
FTE is pretty cool although I've yet to figure out how to create a blank file...
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: Waves77 on Mon, 18 August 2008, 23:40:05
Anoter vote for vim... and Komodo!
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: bhtooefr on Tue, 19 August 2008, 09:53:05
For the little bit of Python code I sling for myself, I use IDLE for that... but for everything else...

I like Notepad++ on Windows.

So far, all I've used on Mac for text editing is TextEdit.app. :o

And, on Linux, I typically use nano (I usually use Linux boxes by SSHing into them, and I don't care for vim, so...)
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: aon on Tue, 19 August 2008, 13:21:45
Emacs, although I don't have problems using vi either.

On really slow lines I sometimes use ed :)
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: lowpoly on Tue, 19 August 2008, 13:39:29
Edlin!!!
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: iMav on Tue, 19 August 2008, 17:07:04
Quote from: sofa king;7570
Edlin!!!

Not funny.  I had to use "ed" (equivalent UNIX line editor) on a semi-broken UNICOS box and it was not fun (no other editor was available in the system's handicapped state).
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: djones on Wed, 20 August 2008, 01:57:12
emacs with vi emulation via viper.
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: karlito on Wed, 20 August 2008, 03:37:04
Eclipse wins no contest O_o.
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: vyshane on Thu, 21 August 2008, 02:32:45
Vim :-)
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: meltie on Wed, 27 August 2008, 07:39:03
Emacs of course :-) and for Java coding also Eclipse or Netbeans
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: megarat on Sat, 06 September 2008, 16:05:19
If I'm on Mac OS X, I usually use TextMate for smaller jobs (typically scripts in Perl or shell), especially if I'm going to be working for a while.  For super-quick edits, particularly when I'm working from the CLI, I'll use nedit or vi.

For projects of larger size (usually C++ or Java), I use Xcode on Mac OS X, and Eclipse on Linux/Solaris.

I also do a fair amount of programming in R, of which the Mac front-end has a built-in text editor, which is okay.  Sometimes I'll use that, other times I'll just use TextEdit.

In a long-begotten (but fondly remembered) part of my past, I used to code for SGIs with Irix 5.3 through 6.5.  I used nedit for quick work, and ProDev for larger, more complex projects.
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: Korbin on Sun, 14 September 2008, 22:18:28
For windows development, Visual Studio .NET is the best IDE on the planet. For none windows, Netbeans rocks for Java and Ruby development (and python dev capability will be coming soon).

XCode is a kick ass IDE. Although I don't do objective-C development XCode should be a pretty nice IDE when Apple is done with the MacRuby project.
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: shrimphead on Mon, 27 October 2008, 16:29:55
gvim/vim/vi for me, on all the OS's,

unless I happen to be at work and feeling lazy in which case I might use textwrangler, it's pretty awesome and free :)
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: iMav on Tue, 28 October 2008, 05:14:16
Most of the time I'm in vi...but I DO like TextMate quite a bit. (enough to buy it)
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: dmw on Sun, 02 November 2008, 10:37:17
For big jobs, I use SlickEdit.  Otherwise, it depends on where I'm at and what my mood is.  If I'm at a terminal window, I'm likely to use emacs.  If not, I'll pop open TextMate.  I write a lot of LaTeX in TextMate.  Recently, I've been using vim a lot too.  I'm finding I like modal editing of vim over the multi-key combinations of emacs.  Plus, no emacs pinky!  I really couldn't get used to vim's default cursor keys (h, j, k, l), so I mapped instead an inverted T on i, j, k, l.
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: zwmalone on Wed, 05 November 2008, 18:39:19
I agree with Korbin, On Windows Visual Studio can't be beat.  Bigpook is right about linux though, Gedit is my favorite. (That's odd Firefox says the American spelling of favorite is incorrect...)
Title: Favorite Programing Editor
Post by: secularzarathustra on Thu, 06 November 2008, 07:02:32
Quote from: dmw;10125
...multi-key combinations of emacs.  Plus, no emacs pinky! ...


since I remapped caps to another ctrl my emacs pinky has gone away, also if you still want the power of emacs you could just use viper mode...