What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?

I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit expensive for me.

So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?

Win32 - Visual Studio 98
UNIX - vi

"Hans" <hans@haNOSPAMPLEASEnshq.net> wrote in message news:bo0mlo$4uu$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the
IDDE?
>
> I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit expensive for me.
>
> So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?
>

Hans wrote:

> So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?

SciTE from the Scentilla project, works under Win32 (natively) and GTK+ Unix.

It may look a bit stupid at first, but take a look at its configuration files: you can enable a cool toolbar, a multi-tab mode, and code folding! A few hundred options to tweak on. And it loads much faster than many far simpler editors - takes less than 1/4 a second on my 6-year-old notebook. Thus it is my default "F4" Editor in Total Commander.

Under Windows, you can also attach a simple project manager to it.

And if you figure out what you dislike about it, you can roll your own through Fox Toolkit or wxWindows, which both contain a Scintilla component. :) Or simly write a plug-in to SciTE.

www.scintilla.org

-eye

In article <bo0mlo$4uu$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Hans says...
>
>What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?
>
>I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit expensive for me.
>
>So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?
>

EditPlus - www.editplus.com

Hans wrote:
> What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?

Well NOT using the idde I use http://www.MultiEdit.com a lot on win32. But it is not free. If you are going to spend money I would recommand the DigitalMars CD.

> I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit expensive for me.
> 
> So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?
> 

Hans wrote:

> What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?
> 
> I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit expensive for me.
> 
> So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?
> 
www.vim.org. On windows, Unix, Mac OS. Regardless of the langiage or compiler.

I use Far manager with Colorer v4.
It is very convenient. And is legally free for Russia.
Of course, I use MAK and BAT files for compilation.

Nic Tiger

"Hans" <hans@haNOSPAMPLEASEnshq.net> wrote in message news:bo0mlo$4uu$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the
IDDE?
>
> I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit expensive for me.
>
> So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?
>

I use SciTE as well, and maintain a distribution for it that has the toolbar, tab support, and other good features turned on: http://gisdeveloper.tripod.com/scite.html.

The other day I made the source code changes so that Scintilla and SciTE will compile natively in DMC++.  It did require that I patch DM with a few libraries and headers from the MS Platform SDK; and to simplify maintenance I used Borland's make rather than smake or the IDDE - that way I can very easily maintain the makefiles as a patch against the Borland scite.mak and scintilla.mak.

Bruce



"Ilya Minkov" <minkov@cs.tum.edu> wrote in message news:bo2vto$8es$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hans wrote:
>
> > So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?
>
> SciTE from the Scentilla project, works under Win32 (natively) and GTK+
> Unix.
>
> It may look a bit stupid at first, but take a look at its configuration
> files: you can enable a cool toolbar, a multi-tab mode, and code
> folding! A few hundred options to tweak on. And it loads much faster
> than many far simpler editors - takes less than 1/4 a second on my
> 6-year-old notebook. Thus it is my default "F4" Editor in Total Commander.
>
> Under Windows, you can also attach a simple project manager to it.
>
> And if you figure out what you dislike about it, you can roll your own through Fox Toolkit or wxWindows, which both contain a Scintilla component. :) Or simly write a plug-in to SciTE.
>
> www.scintilla.org
>
> -eye
>

Currently, I use Visual Studio .NET 2002 but at work we write Java using Eclipse and it is just such an amazing editor. The code completion is flawless and the neat feature of holding CTRL when over a class/method or variable turns it into a hyperlink you can click and goto the definition. Plus a host of clever refactoring tools (renaming, extracting selected text as a method) makes all other so called programmers editors look featureless.

However, there is nothing around like it for C++. Together with M$ charging a fortune for an optimizing compiler which they never seem to update has got me looking at building my own environment. I'm just experimenting with Digital Mars at the moment (already bought the CD :) but it could be ideal as the compiler for my project. For Digital Mars, HTML, ASP, PHP, and any other text based document I use Editplus. It doesn't seem like the developers are updating much these days but it's still a good editor.

Regards,
Phil


Justin Dearing wrote:
> Hans wrote:
> 
>> What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?
>>
>> I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit expensive for me.
>>
>> So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?
>>
> www.vim.org. On windows, Unix, Mac OS. Regardless of the langiage or compiler.

In article <bo0mlo$4uu$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Hans says...
>
>What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?
>
>I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit expensive for me.
>
>So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital Mars?
>

If you're using MS Windows, I vote for TextPad. You can download a trial version, fully-functional and never expires, but reminds you when you open it. It supports syntax hi-lighting for literally dozens of different languages, spelling checkers for many spoken languages, macros, bookmarks, pattern-based search and replace, etc., etc., etc. And it's reasonably priced (US$27 for a single-user license).

You can find it at http://www.textpad.com

David.