Comments on: Overview of code editors

By: Scott Sampson

Scott Sampson — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:13:26 +0000

Jason, I’ve used the NetBeans IDE, and found it to be quite nice. Certainly ticks most of the boxes when it comes to required features when developing.

I will however, be sticking to either geany or gedit for my developing, but that’s just a matter of personal preference.

It is definitely a nice addition to the list though.

By: Jason Grant

Jason Grant — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:35:21 +0000

Just updated this post to include the all important NetBeans IDE which I am currently using for all my PHP, CSS, JavaScript, XHTML and MySQL development needs. It’s wonderful.

By: Jason Grant

Jason Grant — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:26:53 +0000

Thanks for your input Scott. Both editors look very relevant and interesting and are a real nice addition to this list.

By: Scott Sampson

Scott Sampson — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:22:28 +0000

Windows: I was always a fan of WeBuilder. It's lightweight, fast and supports pretty much any format you can think of. Since switching to linux, I use Geany. Light, simple, fast and in my opinion, VASTLY superior to bluefish etc.

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:01:15 +0000

The most probable reason for you to have failed learning VIM is not having understood the modal nature of it, which is what it makes it the editor with the best text input method ever. You can find a great introduction to the VIM modal editing and a few excellent tricks to use with VIM in a document called “Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?”, you can find here: http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

Regards,
Ángel

By: Jason Grant

Jason Grant — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:47:38 +0000

Thanks Andrew for pointing out Scintilla / Scite. First impressions are bad, but I'm sure there will be a developer or two who will fall in love with this too.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:39:15 +0000

Check out scintilla, or scite. Sorry, can’t remember the URL.

It looks and feels strange at first, but the idea is that you configure it to your liking.

It’s a real programmers’ tool. I use it all the time.

By: Carla Huls

Carla Huls — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:21:44 +0000

I think XMLBlueprint XML Editor (http://www.xmlblueprint.com) is very nice. It’s a small XML Editor, not too expensive and i can work with my relax ng schemas and schematrons.

Carla

By: Semantix » Blog Archive » Who builds software?

Semantix » Blog Archive » Who builds software? — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:26:04 +0000

[...] Tools used by engineers to build software (see ‘Overview of Code Editors‘) [...]

By: mf

mf — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:21:56 +0000

you forgot about the great Komodo Edit (the free one, not the commercial IDE) - it's got all you need and more and works like a charm.