General purpose Text editor or IDE
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
such as editing columns
have you tried holding down the alt key why moving the mouse to select columns/areas or is this not what you mean?
Pete
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
such as editing columns
have you tried holding down the alt key why moving the mouse to select columns/areas or is this not what you mean?
Pete
That's column selection. Some editors allow you to insert and append columns.
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
vim, or (for smaller C# projects) VS + VsVim.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense.
In fact, most text editors do offer Intellisense for most popular programming languages, although generally not as good as the one provided by VS. What I really like in VS is code browsing - ctags is just too easy to get confused. On another hand, I don't have VS solutions at work, so VS is useless in this regard; I only use it for debugging.
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vim, or (for smaller C# projects) VS + VsVim.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense.
In fact, most text editors do offer Intellisense for most popular programming languages, although generally not as good as the one provided by VS. What I really like in VS is code browsing - ctags is just too easy to get confused. On another hand, I don't have VS solutions at work, so VS is useless in this regard; I only use it for debugging.
Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
I don't have VS solutions at work,
Really? What do you use then plan msbuild or make files?
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
For my own code, I mostly use Edit and only use VS when I design a WinForm. At work I have to use VS, but I use Edit to write little console apps to test things. Notepad is no good for code, but I use it for XML and HTML.
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
Write it on paper, then use an OCR to scan it in. That way your handwriting stays intact.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:
I don't have VS solutions at work,
Really? What do you use then plan msbuild or make files?
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
I rely heavily on Intellisense as my memory get worse and my mind wanders. (Wanders what the hell I'm doing) :)
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
VS, for text I use edit pad lite, it is the only thing I have found that can open 1.5G+ log files.
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
Visual Studio, Eclipse and very occasionally Notepad++
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What do you use for writing code - a general purpose text editor (vi, emacs, textpad, notepad, notepad++, slickedit, textmate etc.) or an IDE (Visual Stuido, Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans etc)? I know some people here prefer to edit in text editors. But the single most feature which I found that a general purpose text editor lacks is Intellisense. On the other hand most text editors have better support for creating templates or snippets compared to Visual Studio. There are some other specialized things which are not possible in Visual Studio such as editing columns. I revert back to text editor when I encounter those cases. Also when I am editing some language not supported by any IDE, I fall back to text editor. In general I think I use IDE 80% of time and text editors other 20% of time. What about you? [EDIT]I am only talking about editing and writing coe not debugging, compiling and profiling.[/EDIT]
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That's column selection. Some editors allow you to insert and append columns.
That's been available in Visual Studio since at least VS2003.
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Write it on paper, then use an OCR to scan it in. That way your handwriting stays intact.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine." - William Feather
Plus you've got the copier down the hall for easy backups.
Software Zen:
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Write it on paper, then use an OCR to scan it in. That way your handwriting stays intact.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine." - William Feather
I prefer to use edlin
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That's been available in Visual Studio since at least VS2003.
Software Zen:
delete this;What column selection or insertion? Selection has been available since I started using Visual Studio in version 4.3. (Actually it was called devstudio then). You could select a column by pressing Ctrl + Shift + F10 and moving the arrow keys. How do you do column insertion in visual studio?
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What column selection or insertion? Selection has been available since I started using Visual Studio in version 4.3. (Actually it was called devstudio then). You could select a column by pressing Ctrl + Shift + F10 and moving the arrow keys. How do you do column insertion in visual studio?
Hold shift+alt while you use the arrow keys to extend a rectangular selection to the right and down. You can then use cut/paste to move/copy the area.
Software Zen:
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Hold shift+alt while you use the arrow keys to extend a rectangular selection to the right and down. You can then use cut/paste to move/copy the area.
Software Zen:
delete this;Oh! I am not talking about that. In an editor named Textmate, I can select a rectangular region by pression alt and arrow keys. Then when I tap on Alt and start typing, the typed text get inserted in the column. The way to accomplish the same thing in VS is to use regex find replace iafter selecting the column. That feature is useful to format the output of shell scripts as HTML.
