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General Purpose Code Editor

Started by Boku San Oct 22, 2005 at 10:02 PM 9 replies 2.2k views
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Boku San
Boku San
I'm in the market for a new code editor/IDE. And by "in the market" I mean "unwilling to pay for", obviously. Just wondering what a few are that you all *use* (not "have tried, but no longer use for X"). For the moment I'm using Code::Blocks, which I like; like, that is, except for the rather large memory footprint and overall "incomplete" feel. So I'd like something a bit more polished. Also, I don't mind dealing with the command-line (been working mainly with Cygwin for the past few weeks), but I'd like to be able to automate tasks. Features ideally include: - customizable syntax highlighting and indentation - basic project management -- source browser categorized by file extension - at least basic extensibility - speed & low memory usage, but also - some type of code completion or "go to function" and - customizability enough to define syntactic rules and highlighting for any language It seems like a lot, I guess. But I really just want an editor that I can open up any time I like to scribble something down, but that still has a few of the conveniences of an actual *code* editor -- Crimson Editor comes to mind first, but I'd like a little bit of input from someone else before fighting it for one-time macro setup.
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Aldacron
Aldacron
I use Crimson Editor for just about everything except Java (for which I use Eclipse). D, C, C++, Python, PHP... I sometimes miss more advanced, scripted macros. But I've used it long enough that I'm quite productive now. Just thought I'd second it since you already put it forward :)
tompp
tompp
context...

www.fixedsys.com/context if i am not mistaken.
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Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller
Quote:
And by "in the market" I mean "unwilling to pay for", obviously.


Same here. ;)


My C# 2005 Beta prog ran out. The old download wasn't a 30 day trial. :(
Boku San
Boku San
tompp, anything to say about conTEXT?

It looks nice -- experience with it?

EDIT: Hmm...I don't know about it. I'm going to side-by-side it with Crimson in use and see how that goes for a while.
Things change.
GnuVince
GnuVince
You want Emacs. Emacs has modes for basically every language invented (including Brainfuck and whitespace), it totally configurable, can be run on pretty much any OS. Check out http://www.emacswiki.org for more information.
rollo
rollo
Vim is really nice too, with a slightly steeper learning curve than Emacs.
Boku San
Boku San
I actually haven't tried emacs -- been using vim for basic editing recently, though.

Steep learning curve.
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LessBread
LessBread
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Original post by Boku San
tompp, anything to say about conTEXT?

It looks nice -- experience with it?

EDIT: Hmm...I don't know about it. I'm going to side-by-side it with Crimson in use and see how that goes for a while.


Looks pretty good to me and you can't beat the price.
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Boku San
Boku San
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Original post by LessBread
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Original post by Boku San
tompp, anything to say about conTEXT?

It looks nice -- experience with it?

EDIT: Hmm...I don't know about it. I'm going to side-by-side it with Crimson in use and see how that goes for a while.


Looks pretty good to me and you can't beat the price.


Yeah, it looks like conTEXT is about what I've been looking for.

I'm not going to quite settle on it right away, but I'll try it out and see how I like it.
Things change.

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