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What is your favourite source code editor?



Aptana

BBEdit

EMacs

HTML-Kit

Notepad++

SubEthaEdit / Coda

Textmate

Ultraedit

Vim

Other

Vote




24 Comments
kw
May 7, 2008 2:49pm ET

Textmate is where its at!

May 7, 2008 3:26pm ET

Notepad2 (via http://flos-freeware.ch).

May 7, 2008 7:12pm ET

No Visual Studio ?

May 7, 2008 7:29pm ET

How could you leave out Eclipse?

marga
May 7, 2008 9:09pm ET

editplus is wonderful!

danilo
May 7, 2008 10:34pm ET

VIM is the best editor, of course. No way :D

May 8, 2008 2:55am ET

I tried loads of Editors and i found TextMate the best. I looks neat, is easy to extend and has an incredible amount of easy to adopt short-cuts! Everytime i tried another editor i missed some certain feature within the first 10minutes that textmate provides!

rootnode
May 8, 2008 4:24am ET

Judging by the fact that after 2000 votes 'Other' is in the lead by 2% ahead of second placed 'Notepad++' maybe the voting list should have had other editors. I would have voted for 'Homesite' personally.

LT
May 8, 2008 4:40am ET

The best for me is Editplus.

Rajesh Sundaram
May 8, 2008 6:17am ET

I use Programmers Notepad 2. Its lightweight and has all the major features one would expect in a code editor.

May 8, 2008 7:51am ET

For me it's Visual Studio 2008. It rocks! (Express editions are free btw...)

May 8, 2008 8:09am ET

You forgot Visual Studio. It has an excellent text editor with code completion, syntax highlighting, 'intellisense' and (incredibly useful) a 'go to the definition of this symbol' function (program this as a hotkey, why don't you). Macros are written in Visual Basic, but I guess you can't have everything. It is also a very capable HTML editor with tag, attribute and style completion. You can get a PHP add-on (called VS PHP) for $100 which is not cheap but it is very good. This includes a PHP debugger (essential!).

Anon
May 8, 2008 9:06am ET

Someone should have looked at Code::Blocks. It's a fantastic IDE and it is still moving... nightly builds give updates and bug fixes every night! If you want to program in C, C++,D,Fortran,....... etc then Code::Blocks is a great way to get started. (Even has MUCHO settings for advanced users and advanced compilers)

May 8, 2008 12:22pm ET

I've tried many editors and IDEs over the last 25yrs. I always use gvim now if I it is available, it is the fastest. I use Eclipse (someone didn't read the review before commenting above) when on a PC and Visual Studio for VB.

May 8, 2008 12:22pm ET

I've tried many editors and IDEs over the last 25yrs. I always use gvim now if I it is available, it is the fastest. I use Eclipse (someone didn't read the review before commenting above) when on a PC and Visual Studio for VB.

May 8, 2008 12:23pm ET

Another vote here for Visual Studio 2008. It's really improved since 2005 and it's gotta be the most efficient way to code .NET apps. IntelliSense lets me focus on coding and not having to remember the exact name of every function in .NET or my other classes. I do have UltraEdit 14 and I use it for a few tasks here and there, but in general I've been unhappy with it. It's gotten slow and buggy in its old age, and even for a geek it's got too many functions and options to keep track of. It tries too hard to be all things to all people.

May 8, 2008 1:03pm ET

It used to be HTML-Kit, but now I use WeBuilder 2007.

May 8, 2008 3:27pm ET

It's all about TopStyle!

Terence
May 9, 2008 12:34am ET

Vim the best editor for me. It runs not just on Windows, but also on Mac and Linux. How many of the above mentioned can run on most of the platforms (except Emacs)???

May 9, 2008 4:26am ET

Emacs is the THE Editor!!! Everything else is an attempt to get one!

May 10, 2008 9:28am ET

Other -> Eclipse

david
May 13, 2008 12:33pm ET

vi -- standard BSD/unix/linux/posix vi. simple is good. fingers are always on the keyboard typing code. after a while, the mouse becomes an annoyance because you have to take your fingers away from the keyboard. good programmers don't rely on completion and tools providing 'hints' when they don't know how to use library functions.

May 14, 2008 3:26am ET

BBEdit!! The best GUI editor on MacOS X. I was looking at TextMate, very promising but didn't like the side 'drawer' wich can't display different files from various places together. BBEdit can. TextMate kan show you a folder of files or project. I do like TextMate's (like Dreamweavers) 'source-code-autocompletion'. Think BBEdit has something like that to ... still looking for that.

May 22, 2008 3:14pm ET

i have tried several editors, now using np++ only



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