Development Environments

What editors do you guys use ? I have been looking for a solid development tool for a week or so now. There are a few requirements...

I don't want anything 'bulky' at its heart this is JUST a text editor. By this I mean not a huge download max in region of 15mg.

Absolutely NOTHING written in Java. For some reason these tend to crash too much in my experience. Speed is a factor as the Sun netbeans is good, but slow as hell.

Support for Syntax Highlighting.

(if limited to java development, the finish code option is always good. Where u type object "dot" and list of methods appears.)

Also easy linkage to compilers is always good.

Not that I am picky or anything, but the best things in life are free. So no software that you have to pay for.....

I use Intellij IDEA. It's the best IDE there is bar none. It's written in Java but is fairly fast and rock solid - I have it running all day every day and I dont remember the last time it crashed.

It does cost though. You dont say what language you are developing in, which is kind of important! The best free Java IDE is Eclipse from what i have heard. I tried it and didn't tlike it though...

For HTML/PHP/Javascript infact a lot of stuff, EditPlus can be used.

It's basically a fancy text editor with syntax highlighting. It can be configred to handle any language too - if it doesn't already support it.

I use it for php coding - very useful.

Thanx guys...

The money point is kind of THE key point so the Intellij IDEA is a no go... Sounds good though. I am mainly developing in java. But the plugin syntax for other languages is a bonus. Same IDE for everything and all that.

I am just a bit bored with notepad.

Obviously when I am working under linux kate is the best thing. Since you can make lovely shell shortcuts to compiling and running.

The editor I found on the web is Ultra-Edit. But this is just a trial version. And the compiler linkage (essential in windows, cause cmd sucks) is being a bit flaky... The trial dies soon though.

Double, Double thanks.. That EditPlus turns out to be just the environment for me. Its a lean and mean code altering machine. Plus I can use it to edit whatever language I am playing in. And link it to the compilers easily.

Just the job. Though I am still open to suggestions if anybody has them.

I seem to be stuck on using text editors from my IBM mainframe days. I do create batch files to compile my code, etc but I tend to use a dos box (cmd that is not ntvdm) and notepad and that's about it. I even miss the way the the mainframe program used to work (TSO Edit IIRC)

I have been using notepad/dos Edit for too long. Just wanted extra functionality really. Notepad has a tendency to add "txt" if you are not careful.

But I have no complaints about Dos Edit. Except that pasting into it is a bit flaky in my experience. But it is best to use this if you also edit the same code under linux. Only MS editor that doesn't add crap to you files.

If you wanna get really hardcore, you want to use vi for linux. Now THAT's a text editor :D

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Vi is EVIL. Pure and simple. I HATE it when I have to use vi. It is powerful. Don't get me wrong. Those Short Cuts are an absolute killer.

I think it has its place - for the criminally insane - and should be consigned to history.

Anyway... I apologise for the rant. Just came to mention just HOW good that EditPlus is. I have to make a system for a secure web bank using Java Spaces - hence jini (Don't worry. Its not for a real bank or anything. Just a pissy uni problem). And setting up jini looked like it was going to be a d'ho dumpling. Edit plus allows you to FTP files automatically when you save them.... this is too useful for words !

So you are saying that Ken B. is criminally insane? :p

Guess I'll take a look at that editor as well.

err. Yeah (Damn this conviction thing)

for hardcore php editing, PHPed is the ONLY way.

dgr

Textpad from Helios software.

http://www.textpad.com/

It does pop up a message every so often, but it's so good you may just buy it anyway ;)

Context is one of the most fully-featured programmer text editors you will come across, with plug-in support for most languages under the sun, support for project workspaces, and easily configurable keyboard shortcuts to fire up a compiler - in a 1 meg download.

For C, I've been using Dev-C++ which works nicely with the MinGW-GCC compiler, and is somewhat more fully featured than Context

I have used Dev-C++ in the past. It worked quite well....