I have been using SlickEdit (and its successor Visual Slick Edit) on DOS and
Windows platforms for almost 10 years. I swear by them. You can configure it to
just about any keystroke configuration you wish - vi, emacs, cua, your own
hybrid. Plus you get a lot of bells and whistles in it besides the editor itself
- code beautification, multifile search and replace with regular expressions,
source control integration, a good differencer just to name a few. Five years
ago, I would use this editor instead of the Visual C++ editor that was totally
brain-dead. Now that VC's has been improved so as to be usable for many (but not
all) tasks, I still find myself bringing up SlickEdit at least once or twice a
day for one of the bells and whistles function.
I've also used Codewright and prefer Slick, primarily for the ease in writing
macros which get compiled right in the editor. In Codewright you had to write C
code that compiled down into DLLs. The upshot was that I wrote useful macros,
while the guys that were using Codewright never had time to do so.
Never used any of these on unix platforms which I have far less experience with,
but have occasionally wished for them.
Peter Eddy wrote:
> Liam Magee wrote:
>
> I don't know about either of the two editors mentioned, but I've been
> using emacs and xemacs for quite a while and I don't see any reason to
> switch, excepting of course, that emacs editors seem to be carpel-tunnel
> inducing.
>
> peter
>
> >
> > Hardly on topic but - based on the recommendation below, I've been
> > evaluating slickedit and Codewright. Has anyone compared these two, and if
> > this is not the place to discuss code editors, does anyone know of any
> > mailing list which does?
> >
> > Liam Magee.
> >
> > >
> > > Personally I avoid emacs when ever possible having used vi for years (ok,
> > > decades). But - I recently came across a REAL programmers editor called
> > > slickedit while looking for a Java code beautifier - see
> > > www.slickedit.com
> > >
> > > This really made me sit up - it support emacs and vi (not to
> > > mention that old
> > > dos favourite brief) editing modes - including regular expressions. Good
> > > support for Java/C/C++/et al, and includes a great code beautifier. Even
> > > supported on Weird operating systems begining with W, but smile
> > > :), it also
> > > runs under X.
> > >
> > > "Linux - I can't believe it's not Microsoft"
> > > Jerry T [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
