Hi Forum

What would you choose to edit/write source files of C, C++, Python or Java...?

without refering to the most obvious answer which would be Eclipse,

under X, in console would you use nfte, nano, or Vim...?

What would be the best trade between learning time vs efficiency of use...?

BRGDS

Alex

Although I may be inefficient because of this, I prefer either gedit or nano. The only feature I need in a text editor is find in document. Gedit gives the added joy of find and replace, along with code highlighting. I know vi(m), but it seems like it takes more time remembering ':' commands than actually typing.

I prefer to use vim, the more you use it the more efficient you will become. GUI wise, I found Geany and Anjuta to be nice text editor/IDE. Kate is another choice.

I will agree if you do not use vim on a daily basis... It takes longer to think of the command than it does to type it ...

I like nano

I use gvim daily at work (and on windows) because of having to insert redundant information over and over again. So I set up shortcuts for the things I don't want to type for the 100th time.... However, I haven't quite mastered (or put much time into) making a custom syntax highlighting for what I do. Which would be all the geekier!.

Emacs...obviously.

I haven't done any *real* programming recently, but if I want to whip up some stupid little C program because I'm bored, or if I want to look at the source of a program/game I use/play a lot just for the hell of it (like Neverball ), I use Geany.

Really, it's got more than I need: syntax highlighting (for a crapload of languages), code folding (hardly ever write anything long enough to need it ), object heirarchy display (that side pane with all your functions/clases/structs and whatnot), etc.

Really all I need is syntax highlighting and gcc (or g++, but that's rare)...

I would use Geany. But if you want geeky, use emacs.

vim/gvim

After you get into the vi editing style, there's no going back

Thx ppl for all your answers...

I will give emacs, geany and vim a try...

Seems to me that power users do not need a mouse or a point and click interface and are much more productive than the GUI ppl...

I used this to write my MPD client. It's a great editor for Python, and it supports other languages too:

http://code.google.com/p/ulipad/

You are simply faster, if you don't have to reach the mouse and are able to keep your hands to the keyboard to accomplish a task. So emacs and vim with their keyboard commands are good, if you excercise enough to keep them in mint. Vim has a build in tutorial to teach you the basics (start it with vimtutor), I think emacs has also, but I don't know for sure.

emacs does have a tutorial, I've glanced at it.

Geeky? No highlighting etc... ed, ex, vi?

But seriously, learning vi/vim is always good, because you will find it in a lot of Unix systems.

I just never could get used to the vi/vim way of doing things. One of the most annoying things to me is, believe it or not, the HJKL cursor movement scheme. Yeah, I know it's designed so that you don't have to stray far from the standard typing position to move the cursor, but it just reminds me of some of those old Macs that we had back when I was in middle school that I strictly avoided because their keyboards had that stupid one-row arrow key layout, instead of the more common inverted-T layout.