Whats your favorite IDE/text editor?

So far I’ve used:

  • Visual Studio
  • Visual Studio Code
  • CodeBlocks
  • Eclipse
  • Notepad++
  • Bluefish

And my favourites are Visual Studio and Notepad++. I’ve tried using the Visual Studio Code, because it’s actually developed to run on Linux (Something made by M$ for Linux wuuuuut), but damn it, it’s hella pain in the ass. Any other diamonds in the rough? @wendell are you a scrub like me and use VS? xD

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Sublime Text Editor, although Notepad++ is my favorite

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I'm interested; what makes it your favourite?

Well, I guess it's my favorite by default since I do all my major coding in it, along with random text file creation. Just the editor and UI is easy to my eyes. I use sublime text when I'm goofing around or for inspiration. It's dark theme is good for night projects.

I'll have to give that one a try! Love those dark themes xD
I've got a dark theme installed for my Nodepad++

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Omg, why have I not done this yet, I feel like a fool lol

---> Click me to go to dark themes <---

There you go :)

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I love the jetbrains stuff.

Vim can be a multi file ide. Don't knock it till you have tried it. Sublime is neat but I use vim for everything I don't need a full ide for.

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Ahh a VIM user? Old schooler :P

I like atom text editor but I'm pretty new to coding so I haven't tried out everything on it yet. When I don't need full ide I use nano.

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Yeah I like using Nano whenever I need to mess with a file really quickly. I remember Wendell talking about it on the Tek Linux channel.

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I use Jgrasp

I love Sublime's workflow, especially on Windows. For some reason the middle-click select doesn't work on Linux, which kind of sucks, but oh well.

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Hmm read the wiki, looks interesting.

Komodo IDE.

Are there dragons?

text editor - notepad++
ide - visual studio 2013

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I usually use IDE tools that happen to be based on eclipse, which I like a lot. But usually I just go with the typical text editors. Usually gedit, vim (very little) and notepad++. Sublime and Kate are also excellent.

For a text editor I use Sublime Text for its exceptional features as a GUI. If the file's too big, Vim is my go-to editor, even on Windows.
As I program in VB.NET my preferred IDE is Visual Studio. I find it really nice to use, even when working with just XML files.
I've done some odds and sods in PHP, where I used Netbeans, which had some pretty nice features, such as best-practice checking. It doesn't check every aspect but it does tell you when you're using = instead of == and advises you to avoid a direct POST. If I did anything more substantial I would consider PHPStorm.

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I love 'Notepad++', and recently 'Brackets' with some web only things.

I think there is in built option for different dark themes in Notepad++. You can find them at; Settings > Style Configurator > Select theme, Just in case someone need it. 'Obsidian' is my personal favorite.

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