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.
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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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
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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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.
Notepad++ is decent and supports a whole slew of languages
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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...
[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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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.
On Mac I prefer Textmate. On Windows I use Visual Studio though it cannot edit large files. Most important thing about a text editor is not the UI (menus, toolbars, ribbons etc) but it is the keyboard support. That is probably why editors such as VI and Emacs are still popular.
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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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after reading the last several replies, I guess I should repeat: I am asking for UI, not functions. I used UE for some time many years ago, does it have a decent UI nowadays?
Notepad++ is cool because it has a menu bar filled with menus and their menu items, and also it has this red "X" in the top right-hand corner that you can click if you want to close it.
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after reading the last several replies, I guess I should repeat: I am asking for UI, not functions. I used UE for some time many years ago, does it have a decent UI nowadays?
flyingxu wrote:
does it have a decent UI nowadays?
Download the free trial and check it out.
Best wishes, Hans
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:laugh: That was no joke - that was a seriously good editor, for it's day! Now, it looks like pants, but since the competition was nearly all command line editors it was a godsend. Vi search and replace looked like this:
:32,56s/guy/gal/g
Meaning:
Command start (:)
from lines 32 to 56 inclusive (32,56)
Search (s)
Forward (/)
for the text "guy"
and replace it with "gal"
globally (/g)Since we used assembler, where a label (and there were a lot of them) ended with a ':' it could get "interesting" working out how to undo the damage your last chunk of code just did to your source code... Even now, Brief had things it is difficult to do in VS - like have 6 source files open at the same time and showing exactly what you want.
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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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.
Notepad, nuff said.
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Ah yes, Brief, by Underware, killed by Borland. R.I.P.
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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.
Check out Sublime Text[^]. Two caveats: * It doesn't have great large file support (> 100 MB) * It doesn't have a hex editor
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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.
GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!
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GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!
Software Zen:
delete this;moi? :eek:
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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Eclipse and Java, anyone? X|
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moi? :eek:
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.
I had to use vi on a project back in the late 80's. It was the only editor available for a UNIX-based host for a graphics engine. My therapist told me recently that there's hope that I'll make a full recovery some day.
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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.
Notepad for XML and HTML. VS when I absolutely positively have to do something "visual" X| (and at work). Edit for everything else -- it's the first thing I... oh, wait, I don't have to install it, it's already there :cool: . (And pretty much unchanged since DOS 6 --
MS-DOS Editor Version 2.0.026 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1995.-- now that's a stable MS product! :cool: )
