What editor do you use?

[Peter Gibbons]

I participated in a poll and here are the results:

It looks like Vim is still going strong.

[I D Shukhov]

That's interesting.  I'll use Eclipse for my hobbyist project in Java or Scala.   At work there is a complicated build process for the mostly  C++ code I work with.  Ant is reserved for the Java side of things.  I use Emacs.

[Peter Gibbons]

I have love - hate relationship with Eclipse.

If you have a powerful computer it's fine.
I am forced to use extremely underpowered virtual PC and Eclipse is dog slow.

I used IntelliJ for 1.5 years and it's very nice.
If I was not concerned with 'employability' - I would probably use it instead of Eclipse.

However when I am writing new code for some reason I prefer Vim.
It's just the code and me - very few GUI distractions.

I use Emacs.

Did you write some Lisp macros for it?

I hear it's extremely powerful but I have never used it.

[I D Shukhov]

I have love - hate relationship with Eclipse.

If you have a powerful computer it's fine.
I am forced to use extremely underpowered virtual PC and Eclipse is dog slow.

I used IntelliJ for 1.5 years and it's very nice.
If I was not concerned with 'employability' - I would probably use it instead of Eclipse.

However when I am writing new code for some reason I prefer Vim.
It's just the code and me - very few GUI distractions.

I use Emacs.

Did you write some Lisp macros for it?

I hear it's extremely powerful but I have never used it.

I don't write any macros for Emacs.  I have a .emacs file that I use and modify sometimes for new projects for minor things like indentation style.
One problem with Emacs is that sometimes I find myself working on a system where it isn't installed.  I then use vi.
 

[pxsant]

Notepad++ on the Windows side and Scintilla on the Linux side.

[Peter Gibbons]

I use Notepad++ too.

Are Scintilla and Notepad++ based on the same Text Component?

[pxsant]

Are Scintilla and Notepad++ based on the same Text Component?

Yes actually Notepad++ is based on the Scintilla base.  If you use both, you will see that they are nearly identical.

[Origisaurus]

Direct TV ch 802 is "Malt Shop Oldies" audio.  1960s, give or take.  Takes me back.  Cruising the main drag, rounding up strays.  California burgers, onion rings, root beer at the end of the cruise.  Girls in hot pants with legs that go all the way up!  (Think "American Graffiti".)

Before all the other stuff, we programmers learned how to create drum cards for the 029 to facilitate the particular source language syntax we had to work with.

QED (quick edit).  Any timesharing system worthy of the name had a version.  Berkley, PDP, etc.  IBM TSO Edit was an extension.  If you're on zOS you can probably find it, or apps that use it.

Then came ISPF Edit (on Big Blue).  I estimate that 99% of running COBOL and JCL was developed with it.  Full screen, instant updating.

PE2 - developed by IBM engineers at Boca Raton in the 386 project.  Sorta looked like QED, but with full screen capabilities.  Not infinitely extensible, but nearly so.  Powerful macro capabilities.

vi and emacs - it's been almost 20 years since I touched a *ix system.  No strong memories.

VBA - MS Office apps.  Except for the app's primitives (object model), the VBA code looks all the same and the IDE has a fairly useful editor.  Since the code I write is not at all fancy (by design), the IDE editor(s) are satisfactory.

Writing for publication, I have found MS Word satisfactory to the point that I wouldn't consider other things like say, Adobe - too much learning curve for too little incremental capability.

 

[The Gorn]

^ I used PE2 when I was a contractor at I*M once upon a time. It was a fantastic editor. It was comparable to "Brief".

I tried to get hold of a copy of the damned thing when I was off the contract, and the guy I knew from I*M was too salesy and dumb to grasp what I was asking for.

Its power haunted me for years. Nothing I tried was as good.

[Origisaurus]

^ I used PE2 when I was a contractor at I*M once upon a time. It was a fantastic editor. It was comparable to "Brief".

I tried to get hold of a copy of the damned thing when I was off the contract, and the guy I knew from I*M was too salesy and dumb to grasp what I was asking for.

Its power haunted me for years. Nothing I tried was as good.

I got my copy from a nice Jewish fellow (BSEE, I think) who had worked on the 386 project.  Last time I tried it, it didn't play nice with NTFS.  Seems to me there's a website, but since I'm not in that mode, I didn't follow up. 

P'raps, if you're interested ...

[pxsant]

I know Origisaurus and a couple of others here do some writing for publication.

For those purposes, I use an editor called Page Four.  It is specifically designed for authors and creative writers.  You might take a look at it.  At $39.95 I think it is a great value.

http://www.softwareforwriting.com/

[Origisaurus]

I know Origisaurus and a couple of others here do some writing for publication.

For those purposes, I use an editor called Page Four.  It is specifically designed for authors and creative writers.  You might take a look at it.  At $39.95 I think it is a great value.

http://www.softwareforwriting.com/

Bookmarked.  Thank you!

[The Gorn]

I got my copy from a nice Jewish fellow (BSEE, I think) who had worked on the 386 project.  Last time I tried it, it didn't play nice with NTFS.  Seems to me there's a website, but since I'm not in that mode, I didn't follow up. 

It's too old and incompatible to be usable today.

Perhaps one could have used it under Windows 95 or 98, but the introduction of long file names make the use of old 8.3 applications very painful.

Many DOS applications I have hanging around on old floppies from the 1980s I have tried under Windows 7 or even XP, and they tend to unceremoniously fry, lock up, or not even run (they unload as soon as they are run.)

[codger]

I know Origisaurus and a couple of others here do some writing for publication.

For those purposes, I use an editor called Page Four.  It is specifically designed for authors and creative writers.  You might take a look at it.  At $39.95 I think it is a great value.

http://www.softwareforwriting.com/

Being a Mac bigot, I never use M$ Word. My trusty PowerBook came with M$ Office, but I never use it.  Instead I've found that OpenOffice works well. I use a little free word processor named Bean for my first draft work. It's very simple and uncluttered. Helps me focus. Apple's TextEdit works okay too.

I used to have an editor named SPF/PC. It did a pretty good job of emulating ISPF on a Windows(98?) PC. I even had a tri-fold idiot (reference) card for it. I used to write and edit code on my laptop on the commuter train, and then load it onto the mainframe or server or whatever once I arrived in the office. SPF/PC was very handy for that.

[TRexx]

Kedit on the PC. Xedit on the real computer.