On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 22:35:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:48:52 +0100
"Regan Heath" <[email protected]> wrote:
I use Notepad++ now and have used TextPad in the past. But,
those
are just text editors with syntax highlighting (fairly
flexibly and
simply customisable highlighting BTW).
What are the basic features you would require of a development
environment, I am thinking of features which go beyond the
basic
concept of a text editor, such as:
- The concept of a 'project' or some other collection of source
files which can be loaded/displayed in some fashion to make it
easier
to find/select/edit individual files
- The ability to hook in 'tools' to key presses like "compile"
executing "dmd ..." or similar.
I've been using Programmer's Notepad 2 (for *all* my
development for
the past few years), which is *mostly* a syntax highlighting
editor, but also has a concept of projects, configurable tools,
and
"click an error to jump to it's line in the source". And I've
never had
it crash or get wonky, or slowdown, or stall, or use a lot of
resources,
ever.
(It also supports ctags, although I've never used it.)
Geany is also nice. It's slightly more IDE-like than the above
but is still very lightweight and simple.
