[Mike]

Alright, i'm going to overload you with ideas/suggestions/comments right now. The reason why I use MPLab is because of it's "plug and play" ability. Open up the provided CD, click a few buttons and it is ready to program. I just don't have the motivation to switch to another IDE and have to re-learn all the little shortcuts that save me so much time. Some call this laziness, I call it efficiency.

However, give me a clean and sleek IDE with some interesting features and I may be willing to change. A good example that comes to mind (minus the bloat) is Zend Studio. I want good syntax highlighting (editable by the user), project management (maybe with a versioning system built in?), code folding is always good and code completion (both C functions and user-defined functions).

Until something like that is available, I'll stay laz--efficient with MPLab.