Re: Programmer's Editor

On 23 Jun 2005 10:25:41 -0700, michael.mcgarry@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am looking for a Programmer's Editor that has the following features:
>
>1) Code Completion
>2) Visual view of function and structure definitions
>3) Integration with cvs
>4) FTP/SFTP support
>5) Rectangular text select/cut/paste support.
>
>I am aware of SlickEdit. jEdit is cool but does not have code
>completion (at least I have not gotten it to work.) Codewright is being
>discontinued. So, I am looking for alternatives to these.
>
>My platform is Windows and Linux. Multiplatform is a plus.
>
>Any ideas on the best editor with the above features?

On Windows:
When UltraEdit Studio is released sometime soon (they are in beta 2
testing phase now), it will have all the above features. The
stand-alone editor UltraEdit has everything except CVS support, but
code completion is very rudimentary and limited to what is in your
word file or the current document. However, it integrates with ctags.
UEStudio, OTOH, offers ItelliTips, something like IntelliSense in M$
editors. UEStudio is compiler-independent and can be configured for
many different platforms. It can also do debugging, but since it
relies on an external debugger, I'm not sure how well this works. You
can check out UltraEdit 45 days for free at

http://www.ultraedit.com

It's shareware. Also, you can sign up for the UEStudio beta group and
get a similar 45-day tryout. I think it will cost around $99 or maybe
less if you have purchased UltraEdit before. From what I've seen so
far, it will be well worth the price.

On Linux:
Eclipse with CDT will get you just about everywhere. I don't know
about FTP or CVS on Eclipse, but I imagine there must be plug-ins for
this. You can also use Eclipse on Windows, of course, but it seems to
work more out-of-the-box on Linux. Also, there is KDevelop on Linux
with KDE, Glade/GTK/Anjuta. Then again, vim has many plug-ins for
ctags and code completion, color highlighting, etc., as does emacs.

I think multi-platform is more of a headache than it is worth, and
very limiting. At least with Eclipse or UltraEdit/UEStudio you get
true language and compiler independence.

--
Bob Hairgrove
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