I have collected some short answers to the topic in this email (rather then adding noise to the list) -------------------------------------------------------- ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com: PSPad on Windows -- nano on Linux and sometimes on Mac. -------------------------------------------------------- Cheryl Handsaker - charlemontwebworks at yahoo.com - Emacs and Eclipse. -------------------------------------------------------- paul at alias-solutions.com: For years I've used a text editor called Ultraedit for the PC. No particular reason, just works and low overhead. Has tabs for files I'm working on. Does all the syntax highlighting, etc. Also depends a lot on what you are programming. I mainly do PHP, ASP, HTML (in all flavors) and Javascript. -------------------------------------------------------- Brian Johnson - site-hidden-tech at sherbang.com - Mostly GVim on Linux. Mostly Notepad++ on Windows. However I'll occasionally use gEdit on Linux and GVim on windows depending on what I'm doing. -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Anderson - anderson at crocker.com I like jEdit. It's not the slickest IDE you can get, but I find it easy to work with. BeanShell is a nice scripting language that goes with it. I've attempted to work with Eclipse, but I find it confusing. I have Visual C++ for C work, but I don't do that much of it these days. -- Rich Roth Webmaster/Steering Committee Member Hidden-tech http://www.hidden-tech.net The Talent you need is right here, Join and share your skills