[Hidden-tech] Text/Code Editor

[Andy Klapper]

I use Microsoft Visual Studio (VC++) with some add on tools (Visual Assist, PC-Lint, and PVS-Studio).  It's so much better than the old vi days, and better than any other IDE I've ever used.

I've used Eclipse from time to time whenever I've had to do Java for a MSCS class, but I've never been able to get into it (too many options, too much work to figure out which options work with which other options (really which version of which extension works/is needed by another extension), but I suspect if I had to, or if somebody else figured out which set of feature/version pairs to pick it would be a decent environment to work in. (I'm guessing my problem is I always want to load the latest version of every tool and they are not all compatible with each other).

Eclipse is the best free IDE that I know of for Linux.

SQLDeveloper is a decent, if unstable, tool for playing around with SQL.


Andy.


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Hi list,
	One of the key separations between the "(wo)men" and "boys(girls)"  
when it comes to coding seems to be the tools one uses.  I'm  
interested, specifically, in text editors.  I remember firs finding  
out, around the age of 8, that computers were programmed in nothing  
more complicated than a text file.  Now, I would shortly come to  
understand the exact complexities involved in that abstraction, but  
the statement is still mostly true.  The question I have for y'all  
is:  How do YOU code?  There's such a wide range of tools out there,  
from texteditir, notepad, vi.. to IDE's like Eclipse and Xcode. What  
software do you use to write your code?

--Just to be clear, I'm not asking for a recommendation, but I am  
hoping that the thread will help to open up options for myself and  
others.  Just to start the ball rolling:

I use TextWrangler on a mac, notepad++ on  Windows, and usually nano  
on Linux.
I'd be really interested in a programmers text editor with syntax  
highlighting, etc on Linux though.
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