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    What are you using to write your code?

    What are you using to write your code?

    Just thought it'd be cool to get an idea of what the members here are using for editors/IDEs. Have fun!

    As requested, this is a growing list of the aforementioned tools for you to compare and examine.


    Note pad
    Turbo c
    Dev C++

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    Moved to General Discussions.

    My primary text editor is Geany. Other than that it depends on the situation.
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    You know Turbo C is bad, right?
    As for I use, it's purely Visual Studio at this point.
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    I use notepad sometimes like a true masochist.

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    I am on linux so I use KATE, its like notepad; but you can turn on line numbers and see where the compiler tells you the errors are. It also has the ability to turn on a command line console at the bottom of the screen so you can compile and run the program without ever leaving KATE.

    I took a look at the screen shots for GEANY. I am gonna see if that package comes with my distribution, might be useful.

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    I am gonna see if that package comes with my distribution
    You'll surely find it in the repos.

    btw.. I found Kate more flexible (compared to geany).I use Kate (with the terminal plugin ) when writing some quick one page code; else I generally go with Code::Blocks(and am thinking of moving to eclipse)

    #To anybody who uses it : How does Qt Creator fare when used for native C++ editing and 'make'ing ?
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    On Linux, SciTE, on Windows, Notepad++ (based on SciTE)

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    Visual Studio most of the time.

    Used a lot of SlickEdit -- my favorite IDE -- when compiling for MinGW, but unfortunately work is again taking me away from C++.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sjvlsdsd View Post
    What are you using to write your code?

    Just thought it'd be cool to get an idea of what the members here are using for editors/IDEs. Have fun!

    As requested, this is a growing list of the aforementioned tools for you to compare and examine.


    Note pad
    Turbo c
    Dev C++
    Turbo C and Dev c++ are both wildly outdated and abandoned setups that nobody in their proper mind would use when fully up to date C compilers are available for free...

    I use Pelles C ... smorgasbordet - Pelles C ... forums at... Pelles C forum - Index
    This is a C-99 compliant compiler with a full featured IDE featuring a full suite of resource editors, windows headers and probably the best help file I've ever seen... It compiles both x86 and x64 code... and it's free.

    Yes I know that sounds like advertising, but really... Turbo C? WOW! Fred Flintstone had better tools than that!

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    I use visual studio or notepad++ under windows, and eclipse-cdt or vim under linux.

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    Emacs for everything at the moment.
    GCC for C stuff
    sCons for build
    Mercurial for versioning

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    Personal (all Linux):
    ViM for editing (I hope Fordy doesn't get all religious on me here)
    GCC & Make for building
    SVN & Git for versioning

    Work (Windows & Embedded development):
    Visual Studio for editing and building
    Assorted embedded tool chains for building
    SVN for versioning

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    Quote Originally Posted by anduril462 View Post
    Personal (all Linux):
    ViM for editing (I hope Fordy doesn't get all religious on me here)
    Where's that damn crucifix...

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    I use Ultra-Edit for editing code.
    http://www.ultraedit.com/

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