Comments on: The 15 Most Popular Text Editors for Developers

By: Dave Jones

Dave Jones — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:42:48 +0000

Nice to see Vim and Emacs still going after all these years. It reminds me of the very first folding code editor I used. It was called Origami. Anyone remember it?

I would add NetBeans to this list. Just tried it recently and I’m really impressed even though I’ve never been a fan of Java.

I use Coda a lot and TextMate, though lately I’ve been giving Espresso a go and I’m liking it too. Notepad++ is the best of the Windows bunch, but it lacks the finesse of the Cocoa apps.

By: passingby

passingby — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:30:31 +0000

desperately want to move away from DW. i has been using DW for more than 10 years. i think it offer the best code-hinting and auto-completion feature in market.

its build-in ftp isn’t that bad, but i can’t say that it good! template and library feature are fantastic for those smaller project and it doesn’t request programing.

i just hate the way adobe doing business!
and cs-suit is over price, heavy, slow and problematic installation. adobe (auto)update is outrage.
wish macromedia was still around!

all in all i really want to move away from them, but having problem finding any software that has code-hinting/auto-completion feature as good as DW!

i will have to stick with DW for now, but if any one know something offer code-hinting/auto-completion feature as good as DW, please let me know.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:19:27 +0000

I vote for Visual Studio! Free. Intellisense. My two favorite words.

By: Sahus Pilwal

Sahus Pilwal — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:01:02 +0000

I’ve been using NOTEPAD ++ on windows for around six months and feel really used to it now! I’ve just moved over to using a mac with running vmware fusion for windows compatibility! I’m trying to migrate the use of as many apps as possible over to mac and was really disappointed when I found out NOTEPAD ++ is solely for Windows environment. So I have two choices from my research. TextMate or Coda! I like the idea of Coda sub versioning & collaboration but not sure which one to go for!? Anyone got any advice on this? Which one should I choose!?

By: Avery

Avery — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:48:00 +0000

Love Notepad++ <3.

By: Sean O

Sean O — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:43:42 +0000

Used to use Notepad++ a few years back, but *PSPad* is the new king of lightweight editors. Been using and enjoying HippoEdit lately as well – sometimes quirky, but quite powerful, and should be added to the list to make it 16.

– SEAN O

By: besworks

besworks — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:51:56 +0000

http://liquidninja.com/metapad/ is another decent one for Windows. I usually use gedit but if I am stuck working on a windoze box I use metapad. I just keep it on my flash drive.

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:19:38 +0000

what about html kit?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:55:12 +0000

PSPad forevar!!!!!!!!
I had never used notepad+++ but I would like try use it.
TY!

By: Ozh

Ozh — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:32:44 +0000

I concur. A couple years ago I ran a text editor "deathmatch" with a nightmare file to test syntax highlighting and came to the same conclusion: Notepad++ > *