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msvc 2008...either the entire development suite or just as an editor (building from makefile environment) depending on whats being worked on.

I have used several different IDEs in my life - GoldED, StormC, JBuilder, VisualStudio, Eclipse, to name just those I can remember right away.

But from me, a clear +1 for VIM as the best environment for C development bar none, and certainly one of the best for C++.

It might seem anachronistic and overly complicated, not worth the effort etc. etc., but I assure you, once you got beyond the simple commands and into how to use it properly, you will never look back. Being available on every platform is a very nice bonus, because it means you can apply your VIM know-how wherever you are.

UltraEdit32 is one of the most powerful plain-text editors with support of syntax highlight, macros recording/playback, different coding schemes and many other things. It compiled both for Windows and for Linux. I stuck to it.

Vim, of course

Notepad++

+1 for vim.

(But we had this discussion already more than once, for example in this thread)

Give kate (Kde Advanced Text Editor) a try, it has highliting for most programming languages (including assembly). Will need some personalising when setting up (I don't like the default setup).

I hate IDEs (except Python IDLE), so when I develop my OS I use MacVim, Terminal, NASM and Q (QEMU for macintosh. I it bit old, but normal QEMU didn't want compile.).

Programmer's Notepad 2 on Windows, and Kate on Linux.

However, I'm going to try other notepads mentioned by you guys, as kate lacks project management (it just lists all files without possibility to group them).

ydoom wrote:...kate lacks project management...

See this KDE ticket, status "RESOLVED - UNMAINTAINED" (i.e., no-one from the KDE team gives a damn no matter how many people upvoted the ticket).

Since it's less-than-obvious, do give VIM a try. It does have project management, split windows, macro recording etc. just like the rest.

Visual C++ 2011 Beta, right now.

Geany+qemu/virtualbox, or when I do a quick change, kwrite+qemu.

Solar wrote:

ydoom wrote:...kate lacks project management...

See this KDE ticket, status "RESOLVED - UNMAINTAINED" (i.e., no-one from the KDE team gives a damn no matter how many people upvoted the ticket).

I found a plugin restoring this functionality, but written in 2006, and I gave up trying to make it work (dependencies...)
There's an IDE built around kate, "kdevelop". I'm testing it now, looks fine, it's even able to build kernel and run bochs with one button

Solar wrote:Since it's less-than-obvious, do give VIM a try. It does have project management, split windows, macro recording etc. just like the rest.

I gave it a try many times, and I still can't memorize if to replace a string I need to "$1s/foo/bar/" or "$foo/bar^" or ...?
EDIT: apparently, in fact it's "1,$s/foo/bar/g", equivalent to "%s/foo/bar/g" as pointed by brain below

I just use %s/foo/bar/ to do regex replace.

On Windows, Visual Studio; on a Mac, XCode (<-- Often just as a text editor). On Linux, I'm undecided (as I don't have a non-headless Linux machine at the moment)

The main concern for me is how well the editor I'm using understands the code I'm working on. Both XCode and Visual Studio are excellent at this; XCode in particular (since it consults the Clang AST). Code completion which works in the 99%+ of cases, even when dealing with intensive use of C++ templates, is incredibly important to me: code completion is the enabling factor in making your method and type names descriptive (Random example, CFStringCreateWithSubstring vs strstr. Not exactly identical, but given that naming, you can immediately tell what the first does, while you have to remember what the second does. Doesn't really matter for the ISO libc, because its small and managable, but for complex tasks it does begin to matter)