text editor with the best UI (icons, windows layout)?
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Its not as good at column paste as Brief was unfortunately, but its still better than nothing.
No, but it can save you faffing with two editors sometimes.
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."
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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.
I wasn't - but what use is the free version without multi-window support? And $120 for what looks like a dogs dinner is not going to encourage me to move away from VS and PsPad - if I need Brief again, I'll buy a floppy drive! :laugh:
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."
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yes, it introduced a very interesting view: Minimap, a zoomed view of the whole text file.
That's available in VS2010 too, one of the MS add-ins does this, can't check here as I'm at work and still stuck on VS2008. I'm initially impressed otherwise by SublimeText though - I'll have to give it a trial for a while and see how it fares.
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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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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?
Mark Puddephat wrote:
Even in a world where everyone drives automatics, I still insist on pumping a clutch pedal!
Are you American by any chance? May I remind you there is a distinction between a world and a country. In Europe most cars are not automatic, and I imagine that's most of the rest of the world too (correct me if wrong).
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Mark Puddephat wrote:
Even in a world where everyone drives automatics, I still insist on pumping a clutch pedal!
Are you American by any chance? May I remind you there is a distinction between a world and a country. In Europe most cars are not automatic, and I imagine that's most of the rest of the world too (correct me if wrong).
try { No, I'm English, but I lived in Miami for 9 years. You would not believe the time I had finding decent, safe and practical cars with clutches while I was living there. The last car I bought (2005 Toyota RAV4) was a manual, but no dealership in Miami had one. I ended up driving over 40 miles to a dealer in the next county to take a test drive. It was worth it in the end. That car was a very good fit for me. Good thing I don't care about the colour and trim levels on a car, as one clutch = no choice. I refused to have an automatic while I was living there, and I don't drive one now I am back living in the UK. } catch (OffTopicException e) { Anyway... } finally { Since many of the subscribers are American, I wrote for an American audience. However, despite the bulk of my experience of American life being that of a Miami resident, I posted in English only. }
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Brief text editor. Downloaded it 5 seconds ago. Tried this DOS program in a DOS window with Windows 7. I think NotePad is better than that. I think I'll swear at it and not by it.ˆ¿`:thumbsdown:
That's because you gave it five seconds instead of trying to find out what it can do that notepad can't - quite a lot, as it happens. Anyway - I'm not trying to convert people to using Brief (I haven't used it myself for years). If you think Brief is bad, try vi. Or worse, edlin.
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."
