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reply Hans <hans haNOSPAMPLEASEnshq.net> writes:
What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?

I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS 
Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit 
expensive for me.

So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital 
Mars?
Nov 01 2003
next sibling parent "Matthew Wilson" <matthew-hat -stlsoft-dot.-org> writes:
Win32 - Visual Studio 98
UNIX - vi

"Hans" <hans haNOSPAMPLEASEnshq.net> wrote in message
news:bo0mlo$4uu$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the


IDDE?

 I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS
 Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit
 expensive for me.

 So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital
 Mars?
Nov 01 2003
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Ilya Minkov <minkov cs.tum.edu> writes:
Hans wrote:


 So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital 
 Mars?


SciTE from the Scentilla project, works under Win32 (natively) and GTK+ 
Unix.

It may look a bit stupid at first, but take a look at its configuration 
files: you can enable a cool toolbar, a multi-tab mode, and code 
folding! A few hundred options to tweak on. And it loads much faster 
than many far simpler editors - takes less than 1/4 a second on my 
6-year-old notebook. Thus it is my default "F4" Editor in Total Commander.

Under Windows, you can also attach a simple project manager to it.

And if you figure out what you dislike about it, you can roll your own 
through Fox Toolkit or wxWindows, which both contain a Scintilla 
component. :) Or simly write a plug-in to SciTE.

www.scintilla.org

-eye
Nov 02 2003
parent "Bruce Dodson" <bruce_dodson hotmail.com> writes:
I use SciTE as well, and maintain a distribution for it that has the
toolbar, tab support, and other good features turned on:
http://gisdeveloper.tripod.com/scite.html.

The other day I made the source code changes so that Scintilla and SciTE
will compile natively in DMC++.  It did require that I patch DM with a few
libraries and headers from the MS Platform SDK; and to simplify maintenance
I used Borland's make rather than smake or the IDDE - that way I can very
easily maintain the makefiles as a patch against the Borland scite.mak and
scintilla.mak.

Bruce



"Ilya Minkov" <minkov cs.tum.edu> wrote in message
news:bo2vto$8es$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 Hans wrote:


 So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital
 Mars?


 SciTE from the Scentilla project, works under Win32 (natively) and GTK+
 Unix.

 It may look a bit stupid at first, but take a look at its configuration
 files: you can enable a cool toolbar, a multi-tab mode, and code
 folding! A few hundred options to tweak on. And it loads much faster
 than many far simpler editors - takes less than 1/4 a second on my
 6-year-old notebook. Thus it is my default "F4" Editor in Total Commander.

 Under Windows, you can also attach a simple project manager to it.

 And if you figure out what you dislike about it, you can roll your own
 through Fox Toolkit or wxWindows, which both contain a Scintilla
 component. :) Or simly write a plug-in to SciTE.

 www.scintilla.org

 -eye
Jan 03 2004
prev sibling next sibling parent James <James_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <bo0mlo$4uu$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Hans says...

What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?

I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS 
Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit 
expensive for me.

So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital 
Mars?


EditPlus - www.editplus.com
Nov 02 2003
prev sibling next sibling parent Arjan Knepper <arjan ask.me> writes:
Hans wrote:

 What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the 
 IDDE?


Well NOT using the idde I use http://www.MultiEdit.com a lot on win32. 
But it is not free. If you are going to spend money I would recommand 
the DigitalMars CD.


 I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS 
 Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit 
 expensive for me.
 
 So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital 
 Mars?
Nov 02 2003
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Justin Dearing <zippy1981 nyc.rr.com> writes:
Hans wrote:


 What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the 
 IDDE?
 
 I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS 
 Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit 
 expensive for me.
 
 So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital 
 Mars?
 


www.vim.org. On windows, Unix, Mac OS. Regardless of the langiage or 
compiler.
Dec 23 2003
next sibling parent Phil Thompson <phil electricvisions.com> writes:
Currently, I use Visual Studio .NET 2002 but at work we write Java using 
Eclipse and it is just such an amazing editor. The code completion is 
flawless and the neat feature of holding CTRL when over a class/method 
or variable turns it into a hyperlink you can click and goto the 
definition. Plus a host of clever refactoring tools (renaming, 
extracting selected text as a method) makes all other so called 
programmers editors look featureless.

However, there is nothing around like it for C++. Together with M$ 
charging a fortune for an optimizing compiler which they never seem to 
update has got me looking at building my own environment. I'm just 
experimenting with Digital Mars at the moment (already bought the CD :) 
but it could be ideal as the compiler for my project. For Digital Mars, 
HTML, ASP, PHP, and any other text based document I use Editplus. It 
doesn't seem like the developers are updating much these days but it's 
still a good editor.

Regards,
Phil


Justin Dearing wrote:

 Hans wrote:
 

 What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the 
 IDDE?

 I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS 
 Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee 
 bit expensive for me.

 So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with 
 Digital Mars?


 www.vim.org. On windows, Unix, Mac OS. Regardless of the langiage or 
 compiler.
Jan 25 2004
prev sibling parent Alexis <alex alex.com> writes:
Syn text editor from sourceforge. The best text editor it can
onvoque the compiler, bring the compiler's output to the editor
and run the executable file created. It has plenty of other
options.
Dec 29 2006
prev sibling next sibling parent "Nic Tiger" <tiger7 progtech.ru> writes:
I use Far manager with Colorer v4.
It is very convenient. And is legally free for Russia.
Of course, I use MAK and BAT files for compilation.

Nic Tiger

"Hans" <hans haNOSPAMPLEASEnshq.net> wrote in message
news:bo0mlo$4uu$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the


IDDE?

 I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS
 Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit
 expensive for me.

 So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital
 Mars?
Dec 27 2003
prev sibling next sibling parent David <David_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <bo0mlo$4uu$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Hans says...

What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?

I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS 
Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit 
expensive for me.

So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital 
Mars?


If you're using MS Windows, I vote for TextPad. You can download a trial
version, fully-functional and never expires, but reminds you when you
open it. It supports syntax hi-lighting for literally dozens of different
languages, spelling checkers for many spoken languages, macros, bookmarks,
pattern-based search and replace, etc., etc., etc. And it's reasonably
priced (US$27 for a single-user license).

You can find it at http://www.textpad.com

David.
Jan 28 2004
prev sibling next sibling parent Dmitry Morozhnikov <dmiceman mail.ru> writes:
In article <bo0mlo$4uu$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Hans says...

What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?

I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We use MS 
Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but it's a wee bit 
expensive for me.

So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with Digital 
Mars?


SciTe (http://scintilla.org) is my choose. it support folding, autoidentation,
autocompletion, api tips and much more. I press F7 to call make, F5 to compile
and run current file, Ctrl+F7 to compile current file to object file. It have
output panel where all stderr & stdout from called programs go. And after all,
it is fast and small like DMC :-)
Feb 02 2004
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Nicholas Jordan <Nicholas_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <bo0mlo$4uu$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Hans says...

What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not using the IDDE?


I have grow to like Textpad - it works fluidly in Win32, and can copy huge
copy-paste operations as fast as I can keep up with what is going on.  Everybody
seems to come from the scholastic-professional arena where client-server is the
*only* way to boogie. That is safer in production, but for exploration of how
all this works, that 100 milliseconds makes me think the machine is hanging. I
edit with a consumer kernel on a machine isolated from networks, then test on an
isolated machine that is set up with all the client-server paths in the OS.

I use such things as class browsers and IDE's to understand the accomplished
work of those farther along than I am, then write with all the #defines removed
(that I can remove) so that I see as close as possible to what is actually being
fed to the parser.

Not, that I understand the operation of the parser yet.

Nick - "The only dumb question is one you should have asked and didn't."
Dec 20 2005
parent reply "Walter Bright" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:
"Nicholas Jordan" <Nicholas_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:do913l$aiv$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 Nick - "The only dumb question is one you should have asked and didn't."


One of my professors used to say: "why doesn't anyone ask questions? Ask 
questions, there's no such thing as a dumb question." A couple lectures 
later, a student asks him how he got from C to D. The professor replied "you 
should have learned that in your previous class, go ask that prof about 
that, don't waste our time here with that question." Next lecture: "why 
doesn't anyone ask any questions?"

(Actually, he was a brilliant and gifted professor, I learned a ton in his 
classes. He was just funny about questions <g>.)
Dec 26 2005
parent reply Nicholas Jordan <Nicholas_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <dopn8b$fjn$2 digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...

"Nicholas Jordan" <Nicholas_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:do913l$aiv$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 Nick - "The only dumb question is one you should have asked and didn't."


One of my professors used to say: "why doesn't anyone ask questions? Ask 
questions, there's no such thing as a dumb question." A couple lectures 
later, a student asks him how he got from C to D. The professor replied "you 
should have learned that in your previous class, go ask that prof about 
that, don't waste our time here with that question." Next lecture: "why 
doesn't anyone ask any questions?"

(Actually, he was a brilliant and gifted professor, I learned a ton in his 
classes. He was just funny about questions <g>.) 


You've "Hit the nail on the head for me." - big time;

/////========LENGTHY POST========/////========LENGTHY POST========/////

I come in here like a corkscrew driven like a bottle rocket and one guy picks up
my 'bait' - but I'm not trolling for lamers, I iz trolling for Phd's (+ up) I
find this server, and look into it because of the way your compile tool is put
together.

The guy that I engaged is Cesar Rabak, I went on for awhile and I asked the guy;

"This isn't your first day, is it ..."

He cites a url, and I have some work to put up, then go on to a regular day job.

Some of my best work is done at 4am, some of my work looks like it was done at
4am .... (*&^^%%%?...well of course it blew out !...)

Later, after I look at his url a little closer, I walk around for a week with a
mild, occasional case of ego boost - I had engaged somebody who can walk through
Rijndael like most people walk through the park;  I am still trying to get over
the fear that a recursive func will stack-crash my isolated development
platform. (runaway disk write without source code backed up)

I used to have this illiterate alcoholic from the hills of Tennessee [Harold
Stockwell] tell me, Nick - yore too smart for ur own good.

Harold made 35-50,000 a year, couldn't look up girls names in his own black
book..... He was just insightful about matters most people don't even reduce to
questions.

I gotta tell ya the MBA story - I met one C____ A____ who held an MBA from
S.M.U. - she went there on scholarship ~ {Nobody goes to the MBA school at SMU
on scholarship} ~ grad Magna Cum Laude undergraduate work at T.A.M.U.

Got a job at American Airlines World Head Quarters.
Works at A.A. World H.Q. a coupla weeks and drags a few pounds of greenbar home:

"My boss posed me a practical to find out if I know what I am doing.  I am
having trouble with it. Can you help me ?"

I told her, here - let me have the papars.  Looked at it 15-20 minutes and told
here.  The blip at the beginning of the dataset is because people are buying
tickets and some of them aren't getting on the plane right away....

I was correct.

If you factor in the $10,000 - $100,000 it takes to fulfill a 5 year program of
formal study, then we have vast world empire of top-heavy, self-fullfilling
mythology that is not bothered by a 900 ms delay in the GUI.

My real problem is that Harold too often proves right.

I think what your professor was doing was demonstrating for the class how the
real world works, they teach in business school that same lesson.

Most efforts fail.
Dec 26 2005
parent reply Tower Ty <towerty msn.com.au> writes:
Nicholas Jordan Wrote:


 In article <dopn8b$fjn$2 digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...

"Nicholas Jordan" <Nicholas_member pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:do913l$aiv$1 digitaldaemon.com...

 Nick - "The only dumb question is one you should have asked and didn't."


One of my professors used to say: "why doesn't anyone ask questions? Ask 
questions, there's no such thing as a dumb question." A couple lectures 
later, a student asks him how he got from C to D. The professor replied "you 
should have learned that in your previous class, go ask that prof about 
that, don't waste our time here with that question." Next lecture: "why 
doesn't anyone ask any questions?"

(Actually, he was a brilliant and gifted professor, I learned a ton in his 
classes. He was just funny about questions <g>.) 


 
 You've "Hit the nail on the head for me." - big time;
 
 /////========LENGTHY POST========/////========LENGTHY POST========/////
 
 I come in here like a corkscrew driven like a bottle rocket and one guy picks
up
 my 'bait' - but I'm not trolling for lamers, I iz trolling for Phd's (+ up) I
 find this server, and look into it because of the way your compile tool is put
 together.
 
 The guy that I engaged is Cesar Rabak, I went on for awhile and I asked the
guy;
 
 "This isn't your first day, is it ..."
 
 He cites a url, and I have some work to put up, then go on to a regular day
job.
 
 Some of my best work is done at 4am, some of my work looks like it was done at
 4am .... (*&^^%%%?...well of course it blew out !...)
 
 Later, after I look at his url a little closer, I walk around for a week with a
 mild, occasional case of ego boost - I had engaged somebody who can walk
through
 Rijndael like most people walk through the park;  I am still trying to get over
 the fear that a recursive func will stack-crash my isolated development
 platform. (runaway disk write without source code backed up)
 
 I used to have this illiterate alcoholic from the hills of Tennessee [Harold
 Stockwell] tell me, Nick - yore too smart for ur own good.
 
 Harold made 35-50,000 a year, couldn't look up girls names in his own black
 book..... He was just insightful about matters most people don't even reduce to
 questions.
 
 I gotta tell ya the MBA story - I met one C____ A____ who held an MBA from
 S.M.U. - she went there on scholarship ~ {Nobody goes to the MBA school at SMU
 on scholarship} ~ grad Magna Cum Laude undergraduate work at T.A.M.U.
 
 Got a job at American Airlines World Head Quarters.
 Works at A.A. World H.Q. a coupla weeks and drags a few pounds of greenbar
home:
 
 "My boss posed me a practical to find out if I know what I am doing.  I am
 having trouble with it. Can you help me ?"
 
 I told her, here - let me have the papars.  Looked at it 15-20 minutes and told
 here.  The blip at the beginning of the dataset is because people are buying
 tickets and some of them aren't getting on the plane right away....
 
 I was correct.
 
 If you factor in the $10,000 - $100,000 it takes to fulfill a 5 year program of
 formal study, then we have vast world empire of top-heavy, self-fullfilling
 mythology that is not bothered by a 900 ms delay in the GUI.
 
 My real problem is that Harold too often proves right.
 
 I think what your professor was doing was demonstrating for the class how the
 real world works, they teach in business school that same lesson.
 
 Most efforts fail.
 
 



What a load of bloody DRIBBLE  !
May 06 2008
parent Nicholas Jordan <76discus87f83 clearwire.net> writes:
I can shorten it up for you dramatically. I was overpressured at
that time and have since improved quite a bit. I skipped along the
surface and the post is admittedly hard to read. It was pretty
heady being able to keep up with Cesar Rabak, but much of the work
I do is crisis intervention on big projects where it is almost
impossible to keep the wheels on the runway.

I can straighten it out for you if you want.

Also, board administrators please note the email address I used at
registration was taken from a site that proved to be a problem. I
had no idea I would find a site of this caliber, nothing should be
sent to that email address.

Again, I can deflate most of it for you if you want.

Nick.
Jun 20 2008
prev sibling parent "FraidZZ" <fraidzz.cspro gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 1 November 2003 at 16:23:20 UTC, Hans wrote:

 What is your favorite editor to write code in? If you're not 
 using the IDDE?

 I've used Ultraedit, but I think it's somewhat cluttered. We 
 use MS Visual C++ in school, and I really like that editor, but 
 it's a wee bit expensive for me.

 So my question is: which editor do you use when coding for with 
 Digital Mars?


The best text editor for me is gVim, but i prefer working in IDEs
such as Code::Blocks to performing manual operations.
May 17 2015