OSDev.org

paolodinhqd wrote:i use Dev C++ editor,
i like it coz it has the 80 character limit line
and sometimes NotePad++

Dev C++ is pretty out-dated. I recommend Netbeans, Code::Blocks or CodeLite for a good C/C++ IDE.

Personally, though, I just tend to use gedit, or jEdit on windows.

I prefer UltraEdit for the trickier stuff (block editing, running macros or search & replace etc.), but usually I use vim (because I don't have to juggle an additional window that way).

vim is awesome if you get use to the commands, my friend can wiz through it where I am looking down at the keyboard trying to figure out wtf I'm doing wrong... I hate vim. I use Notepad++, but I don't write a lot of ASM code. But, if I did, I would still use Notepad++. It has a good syntax highlight capabilities, regex replace/find functionality (I constantly use it), and I like that it highlights curly brackets when you place a cursor next to it, so that you can determine if you closed the conditional statement or function properly. It loads fast and remembers what I had opened previously in my last session. It's reasonably updated. It's awesome. However, I do wish it could:

01. Remember my history from previous sessions, even after a reboot.
02. Keep time, to keep track of how long I have been working on a file. Maybe it can, I don't know.
03. Show me the properties of structs, functions.
04. When, I search for a keyword and find it in a file, when I click its line in the return window, it should open that file.
05. Allow me to link a bat file to it and give it an action. The action would be, call the bat file every time I save a file located in <this> dir. Or something along those lines. Just would be nice to have it call my bat script that compiles my project, automatically after a save. And, it would be nice if I could link a VM to it as well. And to map those things to a function key would be over-the-top awesome.

Anyway, it's open source, so I guess if I really wanted to, I could just make all that myself. Which is another cool thing about Notepad++.

I readily agree that vim is among the most user-unfriendly editors out there. But after years of servicing code on remote servers running under Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and various flavors of Linux, I came to realize that learning vim is more efficient than having support install proper GUI editors on all those machines (or going through the hassle of having to switch from xterm to Windows, and open the file in question through the "Open per (S)FTP" feature of UltraEdit). There's always either vi or vim installed on the machine already, and support requests can take ages...

Once you get into it, vim isn't even half bad. I find myself hacking vim in a Cygwin window more often than not, even when UltraEdit is available - out of sheer habit.

Oh, and both vim and UltraEdit can do items 2) through 5) on your wish list.

Solar wrote:servicing code on remote servers

100% Agreed. That's one of the coolest features of vim. And, if you get the regex down, then you will move at the speed of sound.

I like to use the FASM IDE and or gedit with assembler plug-in

I use Code::Blocks but after hearing really good things about Vim on #osdev I tried it and came to the conclusion that it's an awesome editor. Just as I was told, it's really easy on the wrist. Too bad it looks like crap

KotuxGuy wrote:I use SciTE, coupled with Kubuntu. I also use SciTE for C/C++ OS development.

Whoops, I've switched again. Now it's JEdit for everything!

I use visual studio 2008 for building and editing... the AsmHighlighter addin is very useful.

lol the editor that came with the assembly i use,srry guys im just that lazy

I use Textpad, which I find very good.

regards
Mac2004

LEEJAEBEOM wrote:I'm just using MS's notepad for assembly which is very uncomfortable...

I know what you mean. While a great little utility, when you have 10 source files open that results in 10 windows things get messy. I tend to use Visual Studio even when it's not a language it'll parse or syntax highlight (Haskell, Java, assembly) purely for the neat tabbed interface that keeps all my opened source files in 1 window.

Any tabbed text editor would suite this purpose.

I use notepad++ on windows and Kate (KDE 4 version) on linux.

I often find notepad++'s UI a bit bloated, but I don't use Windows often enough to try something else.