What editor/IDE do you use for development? Does it vary based on what language you're coding in at the moment? If it's one of those extensible ones, what sort of plugins/add-ons do you use?

I used vim for years at a previous job, because that was the company standard. I hated every moment of it. It feels backwards and completely unintuitive.

When I got in to PHP development, I tried all the usual suspects - Eclipse, Aptana & phpDesigner - before I finally gave in and tried Emacs. I struggled with its spotty multi-language support for two years (php, HTML & Javascript in the same file destroy it) until I went back to Windows a few weeks ago. I went through all the ones above, again, trying to find one that works. At the moment, I'm trialling PHP Storm, which is still not great, and likely won't make it past the end of the free trial.

Vim is an amazing editor once you get the hang of it, definitely +EV to learn a good editor like Vim or Emacs. I do all my text editing in Vim, it works very well for PHP/HTML.

Proprietary:
Mainly VS2010; UltraEdit-suite for file/version/encryption management. Not because it's so awesome for version control, but integrates so well in the explorer shell and as it's an IDE as well you can so easily do quick fixes and implement last minute decisions. Does everything I could think of, none of it perfect, but instead of having one ultra awesome tool for every task, it saves me a lot of time to do various stuff within one application/system, even if it's not the nuts in every single category.


Other: VIM!

Yeah, definitely worth getting to know how to use. I remember when first starting uni thinking: "wtf is this horrible thing they are making us learn to use - are they trying to torture us or something???" 3-4 weeks later I had seen the light!

Juk

Visual Studio is amazing. It's the best piece of software MS has ever written, and written godamn well.

If you're developing ASP.net websites, you can get Visual Studio 2010 Web Developer Express for free. Get it!

I really never understood vim. I think I got caught up on having to enter a command in order to write text, and never got back. You should escape to navigate, not type (imo)

notepad++

Textpad is a very useful plain text editor, with a number of useful plug-ins/add-ons. I bought a license many, many years ago, and have gotten every upgrade since for free. The publisher is too generous, really. textpad.com

I'm more of an emacs coder, but vi/vim are incredibly powerful once you get past the steep learning curve. Watching a pro vi user is like watching someone do magic.

I use visual studio for .NET stuff, and Visual Slickedit for just about everything else except java, which I use netbeans IDE for.

I guess at home I tend to use vim since I don't have slickedit here. I've also used Eclipse from time to time. I really slickedit for C/C++, only because of the tagging that allows you to find references and go to definition and that sort of thing.

I used Eclipse at my first job (Java) and liked it a lot, for OO programming it has lots of really useful features like generating method stubs and stuff like that.

Using C/C++ now I use Visual Studio with the Visual Assist addon (which basically does the reference tagging well named refers to above)...it's not perfect, but I'm not sure what else is better. Lots of other people at work use SlickEdit, but I've tried getting into it a couple times and usually give up because its symbol coloring options aren't as deep as Visual Studio + VAssist and I've gotten accustomed to seeing just about everything (variables, enum values, function names, type names) in different colors.

for plain text vim

for ide eclipse with vim addon

vim here. just print out a vim cheat sheet and look for vim plugins that pertain the what you are coding. you'll struggle at first, in fact you'll probably hate it, but in 3 months you'll never want to use anything else.

if you absolutely refuse to use vim, netbeans is pretty good. supports about every language and works all major operating systems. eclipse is also good too.

whats so great about vim? can you quantify it or is it just fanboyism?

Anyone here used WingIDE? Had to use it for an intro to programming course, still not sure if it's a school-specific Python thing or a pretty well-known IDE.

Vim is designed to let you to everything efficiently without your hands leaving home row.

It's also an old, mature piece of software, ported everywhere, with lots of built-in and third party functionality available for it. You can use it graphically, in a screen session, anywhere.

+1 theme:Vibrant ink

On Windows, PSPad. On Linux, KWrite / KATE.

Maybe I'll take a look at vim again, last I remember though is something like omgwtf lol.

I'm just really fast in it... I spend a lot less time opening files, looking through my project tree, clicking things, selecting things, etc. These things may all seems negligible, but I do feel a difference when I am using a windowed editor/IDE.

Vim has many plugins that are specific to your environment/framework/language that just make things ridiculously easy. Typing 1-2 keys to open related files lets you fly through your source tree.

eclipse

textpad

I also use Vim. Fairly recently converted from psPad (though partly because I moved back to a linux system).

i'm a vim guy. I'm an ASIC design engineer and I use it for RTL writing and test writing. It's very, very powerful for repetitive tasks, or making the same updates to 100s of files.

Oh man. Vim's quick macros are so great.

what kind of programmer uses just an editor?

I either use Microsoft Visual Studio or Eclipse. Both are very nice.

All kinds?