[techtalk] Best programmer's editor for Linux

[Catie Flick]

On 11 Apr, Michelle Murrain wrote:
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> color coding, particularly for perl, java and html/xml (and even SQL, if 
> possible) 
> paren checking, tag checking
> easy access to line numbers and line number jumping
> 
> I might be asking for too much in one editor - I could use an html/xml editor 
> separate from a programming editor.
> 
> A related question: I've actually never used an IDE - like JBuilder, for 
> example. Do those of you who program alot find those useful? In what ways?
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I'll jump in here and say that I really like NEdit as a text editor with
all of the above - it has a nifty little "shell" menu that has some
important things such as 'make', 'wc', 'spell', etc.
It has many builtin syntax hilighting and if it's not built in - it's
almost guaranteed that someone else has written a module for it (see the
NEdit site :)

As to JBuilder, I've heard it has annoying "features" such as saving
.java files with all lower case letters (if you have a class within a
file like that with a capital letter, you get compile errors) and a few
other niggly bits. I've not actually used it, so please feel free to
correct me! :)

Just my 2c (converted to $US probably around $3 ;(

Catie




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