Programming Editor

[adciv]

I'm looking for a better thing than Notepad to program C/C++ in. The compiler will be Gcc/G++.
I'm looking for one for Windows, OS X and Linux.

[Deacon]

You need a whole IDE or just a syntax-highlighting/etc text editor, etc? If the latter, use UltraEdit.

[Felan]

For windows: Dev C++
For Mac: Xcode 3.0 (which should also be on the OSX DVD)
For Linux...err I dunno..Kedit?

Edit: there is also always Qt for non commercial use. I am not sure if it uses GCC however.

[MasteR]

For Linux I used Kate in my KDE days, Gedit in Gnome, and VIM on the command line. All have syntax highlighting. There are others out there, too.

As for a full IDE I don't know.

[adciv]

I'm not looking for an IDE, just a syntax highlighter/formater. It gets annoying having to manually insert tabs and so on in notepad. Even worse when I can't figure out where I forgot a } when I'm dealing with four or five levels of }.

[NorthernComfort]

TextMate (for OS X only) is the best damn text editor I've ever used. I cannot overstate how powerful it is for handling code. It's got ruthlessly efficient formatting, awesome block editing, word auto-completion, markup bundles, code snippets, and a very smart contextual syntax highlighter. Built in FTP, SVN, and shell access. God knows how much else that I haven't even played around with yet- I've been using it daily for about 8 months now, and not a week has passed that I haven't conjured a new bundle or stumbled upon a new function that provided a noticeable boost to my productivity.

I can't say enough about how awesome it is. It's pricey shareware, but give the 30 day trial a shot, and I am completely confident that you'll agree it's the best damn code editor you've ever used.

[Ciaroidbh]

Call me an evil alien, but I've always been partial to emacs.

[Deacon]

You're an evil alien.

[MasteR]

/me smells a vim vs emacs war brewing.

[adciv]

Ya know, I was just thinking about issuing a warning about not starting a religious war.

[Ciaroidbh]

I don't do much linux programming anymore, but the integrated development tools of emacs were very helpful when I was. Integrated shell for debugging and compiling in and of itself was worth the stigma attached to using emacs

Now, almost all of my development is done in ColdFusion or on Asterisk, so DreamWeaver and WinSCP all the way.

[ampersand]

Ultraedit must be ultra if they're up to a 13th version...

[Deacon]

Yep, it's pretty great

[Brian]

I'm a big fan of Vim. The learning curve is fairly steep, but was well worth the effort. I really like pretty much not having to touch the mouse anymore.

I was a big Emacs user at one point too, and both are fine, I just prefer Vim at this point.

Specifically Vim though -- I can use other vi clones, but Vim is the one that I seem to run into most often and have built a nice config file for.

[Infin8Cyn]

Ultraedit must be ultra if they're up to a 13th version...

It's very nice. Between the instant macro creation ability and column mode, they're two features that seem incredibly pointless until you've found a purpose for them.