General purpose Text editor or IDE
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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.
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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.
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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.
Ah. That's a different thing entirely. My approach to doing that with VS would be to use the rectangular selection thing I described to copy/paste spaces to make the column as wide as I want, switch to overwrite, and type things as needed. Not nearly as elegant, but 'column insertion' is not something I routinely need to do.
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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 languages, projects supported by Visual Studio I use it's own IDE. For others Notepad++ does pretty good for me. :)
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Visual Studio 2010. I would miss the intellisense, debugging and edit and continue too much to move to a text editor.
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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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Visual Studio 2010. I would miss the intellisense, debugging and edit and continue too much to move to a text editor.
I have to agree. Visual Studio 2010 at my new job which I started a month ago and Visual Studio 2008 before that. I can't imagine not having intellisense. All my new code is strictly in Visual Studio. The previous code which I am editing was written in Classic ASP. I still use Visual Studio to edit the Classic ASP, but I haven't figured out how to debug (step through) it.
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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]
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Not free though.
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Mostly, I use VS: Intellisense saves so much time and prevents so many spelling mistakes. However, for the heavy stuff, I also keep PSPad on standby...Column select/insert, Regex find and replace, that sort of thing. 99% can easily be done in VS though.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
Don't know why, I have been using PSPad for years, and its in my every Windows installation. :)
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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]
