Text editors popularity among programmers

[sivaextralarge]

You are kindly invited to take participation in the questionnaire on „Text editors popularity among programmers". Tha data gathered will be used for a scientific research.

The stats for the results will be published on all portals where the questionnaire was done.

URL to form at Google Docs

Thank you!

1. For how long have you worked as a programmer?
2. Any particular programming languages you mostly use?
3. For what purposes?
4. Which text editors do you use?
5. What defined your choice?
6. Which text editors you might have been using before?
7. Do you follow the other text editors updates?
8. Which text editors you DID NOT like? Why?
9. What functions might some text editors be missing in your opinion?

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by sivaextralarge

1. For how long have you worked as a programmer?
2. Any particular programming languages you mostly use?
3. For what purposes?
4. Which text editors do you use?
5. What defined your choice?
6. Which text editors you might have been using before?
7. Do you follow the other text editors updates?
8. Which text editors you DID NOT like? Why?
9. What functions might some text editors be missing in your opinion?

1. About 30 years.
2. Assembler, C, C++, Forth, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, VisualBASIC, PICBASIC, BASCOM AVR, Spin.
3. Application, embedded application and web development.
4. vi, Emacs, DOS Edit, Notepad(++), WordPad, Word, LibreOffice...and more.
5. Whatever gets the job done.
6. ed, edlin...far too many to list.
7. Some of the editors I use have syntax tools for programming I download the updates. It's a text editor: like a typewriter with less correction fluid.
8. Gripes: text editors that break *nix/Windows end of lines, text editors with obvious bugs, text editors with inconsistent interfaces over platforms, text editors that do not offer line numbers as an option, text editors that can not print (with line numbers), text editors that do not number pages when they print, text editors without macros, text editors that do not offer backups as an option, text editors with no undo, text editors with no redo, text editors that embed codes that I can't see, text editors that puke on ALT-255, text editors that don't understand ANSI, text editors that convert my code to something other than text without option to do otherwise or always bugging me, text editors that don't make timed backups, text editors that don't line wrap within margins, text editors with non-optional syntax correction, text editors with no facility for spell or syntax check, text editors that are expensive...need I go on ?
9. Most text editors can not open a file that is extremely large (I wrote my own for this purpose). Many text editors lack a pull out character table for ASCII characters.

[yash101]

I use nano! btw, you forgot that in the list
Anyways, I filled it out; NotePad++'s what I use when I want automatic indentation!

Anyways, Welcome to the CD! I hope you are ready for the KickOff!
So, what is this survey for? If it is for programming for FRC, you'd be better off using the recommended IDEs!

[tcjinaz]

A somewhat lame survey. Almost totally ignorant of where the real work is being done. Where are emacs & eclipse? I'm surprised vi (well, the derivative, vim) was even mentioned. Anyone using Notepad is not a programmer.

Just a cheap shot from an opinionated old bastard.

[JosephC]

Originally Posted by yash101

Anyways, Welcome to the CD! I hope you are ready for the KickOff! So, what is this survey for? If it is for programming for FRC, you'd be better off using the recommended IDEs!

I'm 99.999% sure this person isn't on a FIRST team. I think they found a forum that had a large number of users that fit their survey and posted it. Sounds like research for a company to me.

[Invictus3593]

Sounds about right