Free Programming Editors

[hooflung]

I've used PHPDesigner, Netbeans and Notepad++ for the past 5 years. However this year I took a job that has standardized its J2EE development in Eclipse. I have pretty much a complete Eclipse environment now and since Indigo's release I've been loving it more and more.

Mylyn works with bugzilla pretty flawlessly.
Maven 3 works flawlessly now (prior it was finiky)
Subversion is pretty solid with either subversive (home) or subclipse (work)
Spring STS works with Indigo now and is solid for Grails and Java Spring projects
GUI builder is pretty nice if desktop apps are your thing.

 

[ObscureCaucasian]

I already use Pentadactyl for Firefox, actually.
But browser is just one app. With every new vi-mode or plugin comes new configuration and setup work. And vim-like isn't quite the same as vim.

Pentadactyl is pretty nice. But yea but something "vim-like" is much better than relearning an entirely new set of key-bindings. Just like when I discovered readline had a vi keys mode... much better IMO.

 

[Crusty]

Pentadactyl is pretty nice. But yea but something "vim-like" is much better than relearning an entirely new set of key-bindings. Just like when I discovered readline had a vi keys mode... much better IMO.

or vi mode for bash shells... mmm

 

[DarkWarrior2]

I like PSPad myself, but I only code (X)HTML/CSS.

 

[911paramedic]

Another vote for notepad++, been using it for years and love it.

 

[postmortemIA]

Notepad ++ for quick edits, for everything else Netbeans.

 

[aceO07]

Netbeans. I'll use vim and other editors if I need to or for quick edits.

Netbeans gives me great support for svn and lets me track edited changes. I know vim can do the same, but at much greater effort.

 

[Pia]

or vi mode for bash shells... mmm

Those are the same thing, bash uses readline for editing the command line.
I originally abandoned readline vi-mode because vi insert mode is clumsy and you are usually in insert mode when on the command line. But then I noticed defining commands in inputrc brings them also to vi insert mode...

set editing-mode vi
Control-a: beginning-of-line
Control-k: kill-line
Control-e: end-of-line

Now I can do my mundane typing as if I was in emacs mode (I never use the rest of the emacs mode shortcuts) but have the option to enter command mode for heavier editing. Readline's vi insert mode really ought to be set up with these shortcuts from the start.

 

[Merad]

Most of my actual coding is in Visual Studio... Notepad++ for general file editing. I have vim installed but rarely use it.