Need good text editor

[warmwaffles]

I use Eclipse for Java and Programmers Notepad for anything else I do. I agree 100% that a more than simple text editor can save time, but there is a point where it gets cumbersome to launch a fancy text editor when notepad just pops right up.

 

[Speedo]

I use Eclipse for Java and Programmers Notepad for anything else I do. I agree 100% that a more than simple text editor can save time, but there is a point where it gets cumbersome to launch a fancy text editor when notepad just pops right up.

That's all the more reason a good editor is so invaluable. Certainly many of them suffer from bloat and general slowness (poor coding, usually). In the case of UE, the only real difference in speed is in startup... and then it's about 1s vs 2s.

Honestly, used notepad before I got UE, but now I use it for essentially everything except Visual C++, and then only because Visual Studio is so damned good.

 

[warmwaffles]

Visual Studio is so damned good.

I agree though one feature I wish it had that Eclipse has is Variable highlighting and method highlighting, like when you click on the variable name it highlights it and shows where else it is being used in the class file and in other classes. Very nice and I guess...eclipse has spoiled me in some ways but has been a big help in my projects