What editor do you use for programming?

[gahre]

Since my favourite editor nedit refuses to let me work properly by rigorously hiding the cursor from me :mad: I thought I could ask here what editors you are using for programming.
So I could maybe get to know a new one (I know I know, the year of mourning... but nedit would want me to find another one and be happy with it ;) ) and I think it would be interesting for others, too.

So, drop your pants...



Thomas

[hyperair]

I use Gedit and SciTE. They both work well for me, and support many languages.

[wfarr]

Emacs.

Emacs.

Emacs.

[Moncader]

kate and on occasion mousepad

[gwrtheyrn]

vim on linux and vim/pspad/ultraedit on windows.

[mattgaunt]

I use jedit

Used to use gedit and love it but since I've been doing more and more, the little features available on jedit and pretty gd - just need to get used to it, also love the way it can have several text files open at once and u can size them all differently

But i think its a case that everyone has their own tastes

Matt

[brunson]

Emacs, for 18 years.

[mfolnovic]

emacs for application programming, geany for web programming :)

EDIT: does anyone know how to set template for new files in emacs ? :)

[davim]

Geany and Gedit :)

[enigma_0Z]

Vim. Just vim.

(I would use GVim, but it sucks.)

[fldc]

vim or kate :)

[clockworks]

vim or kate

[neybis]

vim is the shit...learn all the keyboard shortcuts and you'll be able to code more efficiently than ever!! VIM FTW!!

[some-guy]

gedit :D
...

[Oasisgames]

Gedit.
Even for my x86 assembly work.
I had to write my own .lang for gtksourceview for Intel-assembly. It was fun. It even has a massive list of instruction codes (not entirely complete, but will I really have a use for all these new additions since the Pentium II, and for SSE and SSE2 stuff? Probably not for what I'm doing)

And now I have to write one for Motorola... err... FreeScale assembly. May even write one for S19 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-record).

[b0le]

I'm using gedit at the moment, but there is somethings that I want/need:

better handling of compiz indentation style (it doesn't handle mixed tabs/spaces very well)

if I put a '{' in it should automatically bring it to next line, put the closing bracket in, and move focus to the line between them, and automatically indent it an extra level
EDIT: to make it a bit clearer, if I type "if(foo) {" I would get

if(foo)
{
//this is where I would get text if I keep on typing
}
Code folding -

if(foo)
{
//bar
}
foo = bar;

becomes:
if(foo)
{+}
foo = bar;

and

/* long
* comment
* here
*/

becomes

/*+*/

[Oasisgames]

Lack of folding is a reported "bug" in Gtksourceview, which leads me to believe it will be implemented at some point.
I think the other stuff can be done with a plugin, don't know if one exists.
I'd like to add that MonoDevelop uses Gtksourceview and happens to do the long comment stuff. I'm sure a Python plugin can implement it in Gedit.

[metastability]

Sounds like I'm the only one to use Eclipse + CDT + ... for code and gedit for xml and such files.

I have a shared FAT32 partition which I save my program data from the "workbench" on to. I can access this from Eclipse in Linux (Ubuntu Hardy) and Windows (XP).

*side note - setting up a Fortran environment in Eclipse is a really painful experience.

[SmSpillaz]

Love to have a compiz IDE, but for now I'm using gedit. Means that I can't submit patches though because I can't get the coding style right in gedit :(

[enigma_0Z]

Kate does a pretty good job of handing indentation and expansion/hiding...

Personally, I use VIM mostly, and kate when I require a gui editor... for coding that is.

[delfick]

either gvim (with this setup : http://delfick755.googlepages.com/hiddenVim.tar.gz)

or gedit (which I realised on the last few days has quite a lot of plugins for it now (http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins) :)) with this setup : http://delfick755.googlepages.com/hiddenGedit.tar.gz

Using these plugins
code comment, file browser pane, indent lines, session saver, snippets, vigedit (https://launchpad.net/vigedit)

(vigedit's my favourite :))

unfortunately, it doesn't have smartindentation like vim does (it's on the list of would be nice to have, but no-one's developing it at the moment)