Comments on: Notepad or IDE – What’s your preference?

By: Essay writers

Essay writers — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:32:53 +0000

I have seen our programmer using notepad+++. When I ask them they said notepad is better because it will develop pure coding skills.

By: Veera

Veera — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:37:35 +0000

Hi CarbOn,

I have never ever used Emac, but from my friends I have heard that Emac is not an IDE. That's the reason why I categorized it as a 'simple text based' – may be I should have reconsidered the word 'simple' because even Np++ can't be treated as a 'simple' tool. What I wanted to mean was a text based editor, with out much heavy-weight plug-ins associated with it.

By: Carb0n

Carb0n — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:15:55 +0000

The author of this article must have some problem to assume Emacs to be a “simple text editor”. Pray, I beg you to go research, as Emacs can be much MORE complicated than an IDE. If Emacs can't be called “full featured”, I don't know what else could be called so.

I prefer using NP++ for everything including simple tasks when on Windows, but on GNU/Linux, Emacs for everything, nano for editing conf files.

By: mariefrance

mariefrance — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:59:10 +0000

Well as for myself I prefer to use notepad++, maybe because I just get used to it. No special reason at all. I used it all the time even when drafting my custom essay.

By: Thejesh GN

Thejesh GN — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:08:01 +0000

It depends on the need. For all the quick and dirty work I use NP++ or scite. If its a big project then I would surely got for an IDE.

By: Veera

Veera — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:03:47 +0000

Yeah, i use notepad++.

By: Jose Fernandez

Jose Fernandez — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:58:49 +0000

“For HTML/CSS, I can’t trust an IDE, since it will bloat my source code with unwanted tags and styles.”

Then use a non-WYSIWYG tool. You will get all the benefits – tag completion, attribute listings, etc – and none of the disadvantages.