Best text editor??

[rashdanml]

No Vi or Emacs love here? I'm currently using Notepad++ on my windows machine but when I have to SSH into a Linux machine then Vi is pretty sweet.

I got gVim on my laptop, looking forward to learning how to use it. (Hush, didn't feel like using vim through the command line >.>)

[ThorBuildingLegos]

Love me some console-based editors that allow for complete and precise control, but...

 

Sublime all the way – it's glorious, and amazing. And it's pretty too!

 

Much pretty.

[rhodestech]

Notepad++

[ainsey11]

I think vim is the best one

[arkon]

Sublime, I suppose. But if you're doing Java, you'd probably want to use an IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ, not a text editor?

[ThorBuildingLegos]

Sublime, I suppose. But if you're doing Java, you'd probably want to use an IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ, not a text editor?

 

My thoughts exactly... I used to use IDEs for editing everything, but in the long run it's a pain if you only need to open a single file. Line numbering, syntax coloring, search and replace; in some cases this is all you need and a monolythic IDE is just overkill.

[Flojer0]

I am going to add to this that in this pass week I have had a growing dislike toward Monodevelop. Mostly it's auto complete. I probably could configure it and make it better but every other development oriented text editor and IDE just works in that area. But Mono will go so far as to make me use a suggested word, i.e. it selects the word with space instead of tab or enter. So after selecting the word I have to delete the portion that is wrong.  I tried going without auto complete and then realsized how much I liked having it. I'm using it because of the Unity3D integration, But I just may jump ship to Unity3D/C# with visual studio.

[ThorBuildingLegos]

I am going to add to this that in this pass week I have had a growing dislike toward Monodevelop. Mostly it's auto complete. I probably could configure it and make it better but every other development oriented text editor and IDE just works in that area. But Mono will go so far as to make me use a suggested word, i.e. it selects the word with space instead of tab or enter. So after selecting the word I have to delete the portion that is wrong.  I tried going without auto complete and then realsized how much I liked having it. I'm using it because of the Unity3D integration, But I just may jump ship to Unity3D/C# with visual studio.

Well MonoDevelop was made chiefly for use with Mono... which is a no-no. Seeing as Microsoft has heavily "encouraged" and "facilitated" the development of mono it isn't exactly something made with open development in mind, strictly speaking. It's more or less a .NET compatability layer, in that modern .NET framework versions are not supported that well. I'd stear clear of the Mono quagmire all together and get myself a new IDE that gets the job done properly.