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  • J Joan M

    Apart from visual studio, I would go for UltraEdit[^]... it has plenty of functions, it is nice and really fast. TextPad[^] is also nice... And there was also SciTE[^]... a free editor based on the Scintilla libraries...

    [www.tamelectromecanica.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.

    modified on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:31 AM

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    I second UE as the best UI.

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      I second UE as the best UI.

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      UO! :laugh: We use that as "wow" in Catalonia (well more or less).

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      • H Henry Minute

        The text editor with the best UI is undoubtedly vi.

        Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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        I used to swear by Brief[^] (I used to swear at vi)

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        • F flyingxu

          For the programmers who write code daily, do you care about the UI of your text editors? I personally dislike the ui of source insight (its UI is very out dated), but it's still a preferred editor. I came to another editor named 010editor some day ago, I found that I like its UI. But unfortunatedly I need some functions which it doesnot provide. I spend some time (yesterday and today, maybe my boss should give me more work to do?) on the net just try to find a editor whose UI can give me some interest to try it, but I'm not satisfied by my result. Are you guys are same serious about the UI of a editor as I am, if so, do you have any recommandations? (Here UI mainly refers to the icons, windows layout, color schemas. I'm not asking for the best functions) PS, I asked the same question on stacko******.com, but 5 people rushed in and closed my question within several minutes! I'm amazed by their efficiency, I agree with their reasons though.

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          Nemanja Trifunovic
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          flyingxu wrote:

          I personally dislike the ui of source insight

          Do you work for Microsoft (Source Insight is pretty popular in MS)? Anyway, I like my editor to have minmal UI and a rich set of keyboard commands; vim is my current editor of choice: not perfect, but close enough.

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          • F flyingxu

            For the programmers who write code daily, do you care about the UI of your text editors? I personally dislike the ui of source insight (its UI is very out dated), but it's still a preferred editor. I came to another editor named 010editor some day ago, I found that I like its UI. But unfortunatedly I need some functions which it doesnot provide. I spend some time (yesterday and today, maybe my boss should give me more work to do?) on the net just try to find a editor whose UI can give me some interest to try it, but I'm not satisfied by my result. Are you guys are same serious about the UI of a editor as I am, if so, do you have any recommandations? (Here UI mainly refers to the icons, windows layout, color schemas. I'm not asking for the best functions) PS, I asked the same question on stacko******.com, but 5 people rushed in and closed my question within several minutes! I'm amazed by their efficiency, I agree with their reasons though.

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            Groulien
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            (global) text editors aren't very advanced, it isn't meant to be. I'm using Notepad++ for my text files and coding snippets. When programming an actual application (.Net), I use VS2010 on my desktop and SharpDevelop for my laptop.

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            • J Joan M

              Apart from visual studio, I would go for UltraEdit[^]... it has plenty of functions, it is nice and really fast. TextPad[^] is also nice... And there was also SciTE[^]... a free editor based on the Scintilla libraries...

              [www.tamelectromecanica.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.

              modified on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:31 AM

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              Totally agree. 90% of the time I write code in VS, but the other 10% it's in UltraEdit. UE is also what I use for most of my HTML editing.

              Best wishes, Hans


              [Hans Dietrich Software]

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              • F flyingxu

                For the programmers who write code daily, do you care about the UI of your text editors? I personally dislike the ui of source insight (its UI is very out dated), but it's still a preferred editor. I came to another editor named 010editor some day ago, I found that I like its UI. But unfortunatedly I need some functions which it doesnot provide. I spend some time (yesterday and today, maybe my boss should give me more work to do?) on the net just try to find a editor whose UI can give me some interest to try it, but I'm not satisfied by my result. Are you guys are same serious about the UI of a editor as I am, if so, do you have any recommandations? (Here UI mainly refers to the icons, windows layout, color schemas. I'm not asking for the best functions) PS, I asked the same question on stacko******.com, but 5 people rushed in and closed my question within several minutes! I'm amazed by their efficiency, I agree with their reasons though.

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                John M Drescher
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                I like notepad++ for anything not code and VS + Visual Assist for code.

                John

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                • J John M Drescher

                  I like notepad++ for anything not code and VS + Visual Assist for code.

                  John

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                  StM0n
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                  Agree...:thumbsup:

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                  • F flyingxu

                    For the programmers who write code daily, do you care about the UI of your text editors? I personally dislike the ui of source insight (its UI is very out dated), but it's still a preferred editor. I came to another editor named 010editor some day ago, I found that I like its UI. But unfortunatedly I need some functions which it doesnot provide. I spend some time (yesterday and today, maybe my boss should give me more work to do?) on the net just try to find a editor whose UI can give me some interest to try it, but I'm not satisfied by my result. Are you guys are same serious about the UI of a editor as I am, if so, do you have any recommandations? (Here UI mainly refers to the icons, windows layout, color schemas. I'm not asking for the best functions) PS, I asked the same question on stacko******.com, but 5 people rushed in and closed my question within several minutes! I'm amazed by their efficiency, I agree with their reasons though.

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                    Eclipse and Java, anyone? X|

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                    • H Hans Dietrich

                      Totally agree. 90% of the time I write code in VS, but the other 10% it's in UltraEdit. UE is also what I use for most of my HTML editing.

                      Best wishes, Hans


                      [Hans Dietrich Software]

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                      Joan M
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                      Yes, my HTML is also done in UE... And with the .uenc files that can be downloaded in their web page I use it to program robots and other industrial systems with syntax highligthing... a really nice improvement comparing to some options that robot manufacturers are giving me... :thumbsup:

                      [www.tamelectromecanica.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.

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                      • H Henry Minute

                        The text editor with the best UI is undoubtedly vi.

                        Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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                        Nagy Vilmos
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                        Surely you'd be more comfortable with edlin :-D


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                        • L Lost User

                          Eclipse and Java, anyone? X|

                          "Dark the dark side is. Very dark..." - Yoda ---
                          "Shut up, Yoda, and just make yourself another toast." - Obi Wan Kenobi

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                          yupp! here!

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                          • F flyingxu

                            For the programmers who write code daily, do you care about the UI of your text editors? I personally dislike the ui of source insight (its UI is very out dated), but it's still a preferred editor. I came to another editor named 010editor some day ago, I found that I like its UI. But unfortunatedly I need some functions which it doesnot provide. I spend some time (yesterday and today, maybe my boss should give me more work to do?) on the net just try to find a editor whose UI can give me some interest to try it, but I'm not satisfied by my result. Are you guys are same serious about the UI of a editor as I am, if so, do you have any recommandations? (Here UI mainly refers to the icons, windows layout, color schemas. I'm not asking for the best functions) PS, I asked the same question on stacko******.com, but 5 people rushed in and closed my question within several minutes! I'm amazed by their efficiency, I agree with their reasons though.

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                            I have been using VEDIT[^] for many years. It has a little learning curve but not bad.

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                            • J John M Drescher

                              I like notepad++ for anything not code and VS + Visual Assist for code.

                              John

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                              Nagy Vilmos
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                              notepad++ is the first thing installed on any new machine.


                              Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett

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                              • H Henry Minute

                                The text editor with the best UI is undoubtedly vi.

                                Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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                                Henry Minute wrote:

                                The text editor with the best UI is undoubtedly vi.

                                I prefer "copy con: <filename>"

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                                  flyingxu wrote:

                                  I personally dislike the ui of source insight

                                  Do you work for Microsoft (Source Insight is pretty popular in MS)? Anyway, I like my editor to have minmal UI and a rich set of keyboard commands; vim is my current editor of choice: not perfect, but close enough.

                                  utf8-cpp

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                                  Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

                                  Anyway, I like my editor to have minmal UI and a rich set of keyboard commands

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                                  • F flyingxu

                                    For the programmers who write code daily, do you care about the UI of your text editors? I personally dislike the ui of source insight (its UI is very out dated), but it's still a preferred editor. I came to another editor named 010editor some day ago, I found that I like its UI. But unfortunatedly I need some functions which it doesnot provide. I spend some time (yesterday and today, maybe my boss should give me more work to do?) on the net just try to find a editor whose UI can give me some interest to try it, but I'm not satisfied by my result. Are you guys are same serious about the UI of a editor as I am, if so, do you have any recommandations? (Here UI mainly refers to the icons, windows layout, color schemas. I'm not asking for the best functions) PS, I asked the same question on stacko******.com, but 5 people rushed in and closed my question within several minutes! I'm amazed by their efficiency, I agree with their reasons though.

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                                    Ligthweight text editors : Notepad++: this one opens files in tabs, which I don't like (you tend to lose focus on which file you actually opened) Notepad2: This one I like, it works the same as your regular notepad, but has highlighting, line numbers etc... For more heavy stuff: - documents : Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, ... - Pure HTML/CSS/Javascript : Aptana - C#, etc... : VS2010 hope this helps.

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                                    • J Joan M

                                      Apart from visual studio, I would go for UltraEdit[^]... it has plenty of functions, it is nice and really fast. TextPad[^] is also nice... And there was also SciTE[^]... a free editor based on the Scintilla libraries...

                                      [www.tamelectromecanica.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.

                                      modified on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:31 AM

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                                      I am using UE right now. I love it for everything outside of VS. Perl and other config type files and general text processing.

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                                      • F flyingxu

                                        For the programmers who write code daily, do you care about the UI of your text editors? I personally dislike the ui of source insight (its UI is very out dated), but it's still a preferred editor. I came to another editor named 010editor some day ago, I found that I like its UI. But unfortunatedly I need some functions which it doesnot provide. I spend some time (yesterday and today, maybe my boss should give me more work to do?) on the net just try to find a editor whose UI can give me some interest to try it, but I'm not satisfied by my result. Are you guys are same serious about the UI of a editor as I am, if so, do you have any recommandations? (Here UI mainly refers to the icons, windows layout, color schemas. I'm not asking for the best functions) PS, I asked the same question on stacko******.com, but 5 people rushed in and closed my question within several minutes! I'm amazed by their efficiency, I agree with their reasons though.

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                                        clientSurfer
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                                        Notepad++ is decent and supports a whole slew of languages

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                                        • J Joan M

                                          Apart from visual studio, I would go for UltraEdit[^]... it has plenty of functions, it is nice and really fast. TextPad[^] is also nice... And there was also SciTE[^]... a free editor based on the Scintilla libraries...

                                          [www.tamelectromecanica.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.

                                          modified on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:31 AM

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                                          Joan Murt wrote:

                                          TextPad[^] is also nice...

                                          I've been using textpad since 99, but some of it's keyboard shortcuts are eccentric which makes it a bit annoying for new users.

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