Well, I think this thread has turned into a simple flame. There are several editors with different features and people with different requirements. Almost everything that was mentioned in this thread pro and/or contra is a simple feature, nothing else - someone may miss them, someone may not. All mentioned editors are great ones: emacs, eclipse and others too - nobody propagated a Notepad or something similar. Everybody can find his/her own preferred editor having the optimal feature set for him/her. Did somebody mention any features that are essential and indispensable for every programmer without exception and provided by a single and one editor only? I think did not. Customization? Syntax-highlighting? Code-completion? Refactoring? Multilingual support? CVS support? Automatized compiling and building? These are features provided by several editors, GUI ones and command-line ones too. So what we are talking about? E.g. I'm using an editor which is platform independent, supports multiple languages (approx. 130 - I use it for ActionScript, PHP, Java, HTML, XML etc.), provides syntax-highlighting and code-completion (for some languages, but it can be extended - though I don't use code-completion at all), can use CVS and compile/build source files automatically, customizable and extendable (with plug-ins and macro scripts). Can you guess from these features which editor I use? Can you guess wheter it is a GUI or command-line based? Probably cannot. Is there an essential feature that I forgot to mention? So again: what are we talking about? :) Some people prefer automatic gear system, some people manual one - which is the better? :) It all depends on...
Attila And the solution for my editor quiz is jEdit :)
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