Editor

[Ryan M.]

Partially as a joke, although I will be interested in seeing what people say:

What's the best editor for programming? Is it specific to any language/what language? What platform(s) does it run on? Why is it the "best?"

Or, be more thoughful and answer "What makes an editor good for programming?" (or answer any combination of the above. )

[Yan Wang]

VIM

It's open source (Read: FREE), supports everything [that you'd need], and is easy to customize.

[Astronouth7303]

Notepad. Supports all languages and compilers!

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

Notepad. Supports all languages and compilers!

And native only to Windows...

[phrontist]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

Notepad. Supports all languages and compilers!

Agh no!!!

Have I taught you nothing!

Notepad is the work of the devil!

Come to the Open-Source side!

Oh, back to the topic:
vi, vim, pico

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Yan Wang

And native only to Windows...

Gimme a break. Macintosh has simple text, and you can probably write one in java. I mean, when learning a language, it's the second program you make (after "Hello world").
[EDIT=What's the Linux equivalent? or does everyone write their own?]

[Joshua May]

MICROSOFT WORD!!!

j/k please don't hurt me. I use notepad for all of my programming needs.

[Astronouth7303]

Seriousely, I just use the native editor usually, and notepad/wordpad when I can't.
VB=VB
VC++=VC++
NQC=BrixCC
PIC C=MPLAB
PBASIC=PASIC
Psuedo Code=Notepad (Errr...)
html=Frontpage/notepad
bat=notepad

GET THE IDEA?

[mtrawls]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

html=Frontpage

I think you'd be better off with Word, despite previous comments to the contrary

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Astronauth7303

html=frontpage

The only time I ever use frontpage is to help visualize layouts, especially tables used inside tables, which can get a bit complicated when hardcoding.

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by HHSJosh

The only time I ever use frontpage is to help visualize layouts, especially tables used inside tables, which can get a bit complicated when hardcoding.

Allow me to repeat:

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

html=Frontpage/notepad

[piotrm]

Wow! I can't believe noone mentioned emacs yet. I use emacs for everything. Granted that I mostly use perl (see cperl-mode in emacs), but if I used other languages, I'd use emacs for them as well. Emacs runs on pretty much anything I am pretty sure. The "unixes" are fine with it. There is also a windows version. It comes with many modes for different languages that include syntax high-lighting and other fun stuff. It also recognizes CVS files and has keys for cvs commands. A lot of people use emacs for a lot more. For example email and irc or whatever else one might want to do on a computer. Sometimes it is refered to as "editor and kitchen sink".

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by piotrm

Wow! I can't believe noone mentioned emacs yet....

Finally, someone else who actually uses it. (I can't stand vi/vim personally. Modal editing... ick.)

[Ryan M.]

Put your votes on the poll!

And for my vote of "other," I'll say I use NetBeans IDE a lot. (Me likes Java.) It's a memory hog though. 90 mb. And all it is a fancy text editor.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Texan

Finally, someone else who actually uses it. (I can't stand vi/vim personally. Modal editing... ick.)

Try evim, then