text editor with the best UI (icons, windows layout)?
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The text editor with the best UI is undoubtedly vi.
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I still have a 'Quick Reference for vi' card in my desk. HP Part number 96597-900000; if you want to get one ;) . Its a very useful double sided card with everything you need to drive vi. I had forgotten all about the card and vi until this thread reminded me. Damn you.
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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.
Don't ever knock vi! Even in a world where everyone drives automatics, I still insist on pumping a clutch pedal! I use vi every time I work on a COBOL source file. And I am not kidding! That is my day job! Seriously though. vi is my universal IDE on UNIX/Linux for any type of code. On Windows, Textpad is my best friend for text editing. VS for .NET of course. HateML for my PHP/HTML work. PLEdit32 for PL/SQL coding. PowerGUI for Powershell. Oh, and let's not forget the TSO editor for the JCL side of my job. Notepad never gets a look-in. I still miss LPEX (OS/2) and LEXX (IBM VM) though. Anyone remember those? They had a big feature that I DO miss, namely that they could be scripted in EXEC or REXX. Horses for courses, eh?
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Hi FlyingXu, The current UltraEdit (17.xx on Windows) has six modes of user interface, including: technical writer, programmer, notepad replacement. Last I looked, there were thirteen different programming language development modes from C# to Ruby to HTML development. You can customize any style ... menus, icons, etc. ... of the six UI modes highly. I sure wish I could "plug" UE in to Visual Studio, instead of using the VS editor which I have come to refer to ... in my head ... as "the light show:" with the color settings tweaked to mild-stun for the sake of my older eyes, there's all kinds of flashing that occurs unless I'm guiding the mouse with the precision of a neurosurgeon ! Suggest you download a trial of the current UE and take a look. best, Bill
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning." C.S. Lewis
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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.
I prefer to use edlin
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Loved BRIEF. I used it all the way up until about 1995, then switched to KEdit, because my new employer used it. Currently reading: "The Prince", by Nicolo Machiavelli
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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.
I'm a big fan of Textpad (www.textpad.com) - it can do syntax colouring for loads of different languages & file formats, handle several hundred open files at a time, no limit on file size, and the search/replace mechanism can make extensive use of regular expressions. Intellisense would be the icing on the cake, but we can't have everything... Keith
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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...
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modified on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:31 AM
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I used to use UltraEdit exclusively but the the last few revs have gotten way too bloated. It used to be a snappy app. Even on my i7 quad-core it takes way too long to load for my taste. I have a hard time with all their non-standard icon images too.
regalsoft wrote:
takes way too long to load for my taste
They have made it much more fast in their last release... :thumbsup: it was about time... X|
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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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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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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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regalsoft wrote:
takes way too long to load for my taste
They have made it much more fast in their last release... :thumbsup: it was about time... X|
[www.tamelectromecanica.com] Robots, CNC and PLC machines for grinding and polishing.
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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.
It depends upon what I'm doing. Right now, most of my time is occupied in Visual Studio, which is reasonably good, since I move the icons around and use a couple of addins. It gets the job done and doesn't get in the way. The builds when testing are a little slow, but acceptable. I'm also partial to phpDesigner when I need that environment. For down and dirty, light weight noodling and coding, Crimson Editor is my choice.
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I'm running the latest version (17.0) and it's still way too slow. I see there's a new minor rev out there now. Is that the one you're talking about?
I'm afraid I was thinking on the 17.0... I'm sorry...
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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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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.
Depends on what I'm doing. For coding Windoze programs I stick with VS. For websites and plain text, I have my own editor based on the ScintillaNet[^] component. I also like NoteTab[^] from Fookes Software. Very nice editor. I'd recommend rolling your own editor if you have the time and your employer allows it. No one else will create a text editor exactly suited for your preferences.
XAlan Burkhart
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jEdit, open source and very configurable. Also has 190+ plugins. I use it as my main editor but I also use AutoHotKey to make my cursor movement shortcuts the same for all the editors I use (jEdit, Word, VS and CodeComposer Studio).
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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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Surprisingly, VS has Column select, copy and paste: hold down the ALT key when you select text.
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."
Its not as good at column paste as Brief was unfortunately, but its still better than nothing.
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You are aware its available of course: http://www.briefeditor.com/[^] Unfortunately, the free version is too limited, and the Professional version seems a bit expensive.
