What editor do you use?

[Origisaurus]

Kedit on the PC. Xedit on the real computer.

Thanks TRexx, I tried to remember the name of the VM equivalent of ISPF Edit, but drew a blank.  Senior moment.  Never found it ideal for Rexx code, but usually working with the editor you know is more effective than learning a new one.  "You go to war with the army you have."  -- Rumsfeld

[codger]

I mostly used ISPF and SPF/PC when I wrote and edited Rexx code.

[TRexx]

Thanks TRexx, I tried to remember the name of the VM equivalent of ISPF Edit, but drew a blank.

ISPF is available on VM but AFAIK no one uses it.  ISPF is a classic example of am excellent product that was developed for a specific platform (MVS/zOS) and was then ported to another where it failed miserably. Some clever soul extracted the ISPF editer and made it a standalone program. It was available on the internal VM systems but was never released as product.  If they had, no one would have bought ISPF.

There were several religious wars over which was better - ISPF or Xedit.  They were mostly a draw since with macros and profiles you can make them pretty much identical.   To me the deciding factor is that ISPF will let me edit 2 files at the same time.  XEDIT lets me open as many as I want.

[The Gorn]

Very fitting, even though it's Samir, not "Peter".

Samir is an underutilized character from Office Space.

[I D Shukhov]

Very fitting, even though it's Samir, not "Peter".

Samir is an underutilized character from Office Space.

I'm going to miss Britney. 

[Peter Gibbons]

Very fitting, even though it's Samir, not "Peter".

Maybe 'Peter' is Samir in real life.

[PhilFromNY]

Notepad++ on Windows, Vim on Linux. I'll need to take a look at Scintilla now that I know it's relation to Notepad++, thanks.

I've had similar problems with slowness using Eclipse in a VM. I switched to NetBeans but now it seems that Oracle is focusing that on Java while I was using it for C++ and Python. Last I looked Python had been dropped from the support list. Partly for that reason I'm giving Python Tools for Visual Studio 2010 a look.

[The Gorn]

Huh huh, I wrote "Avatard" instead of "Avatar". 

I don't know what that means. "Avatar" fans are tards?

Your Samir picture is... much less disturbing. 

Against all counsel to only consider freeware editors when I was last looking due to a major OS upgrade, I now use UtraEdit.

It has tons of features and no restrictions, IE, it can open enormous files. It has language sensitive editing where it highlights the proper constructs for things like CSS or HTML or source language (C++, Python, et al) editing.

Years ago, since 1992, I used Multi-Edit. It was originally touted as the high-value programmer's editor and when it came out was positioned directly against UnderWare System's "Brief". I loved it, it was quite comfortable.

When I upgraded to Win 7 64 bit, Multi-Edit would not work any longer so I was forced to upgrade or change. When I checked the current prices to upgrade my copy to the present day I was SHOCKED. I would have sank $200 into a new copy of Multi-Edit.

Screw that - I don't even buy languages that are that expensive.

Ultra-Edit is essentially the same thing as Multi-Edit but only costs $80 for the pro level package. It seems to be more successful, too.

[The Gorn]

I think I remember ads in PC magazines from the early 1980s for KEdit. I didn't realize the mainframe connection at the time.

KEdit seemed to be one of the original serious programmer's editors. KEdit used to be advertised with compatibility for a zillion different operating systems.

[Peter Gibbons]

Last I used UltraEdit it cost $35 IIRC. Payed for couple of upgrades too.

It's very fine editor but I wanted something that works on Unix too.

[jbucks]

UltraEdiit now works on various *nix and Mac.

Jim

[benali72]

In my work I support DBMSs and OSs. Since these are *NIX systems, I use VI.  I don't use VIM because it's not present on all systems. I work with hundreds of systems and I know VI will always be present.

On the rare occasions where I support a Windows-based DBMS, I use Notepad. Like VI it's not the best but I know it's always present.

Writing for publication, I use Kompozer.  I find it easier and faster to use an HTML editor like Kompozer than a slow word processor like Word or OpenOffice.org.  A few years ago everyone required DOC files but today I've never had anyone reject an HTML file document. Kompozer is free and runs under any *NIX and Windows.

When I have to work with DOC or DOCX files sent from others I use OpenOffice, which supports them compatibly.

[Peter Gibbons]

That's good to know.