Best IDE?

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"Timothy Wu"  wrote ...
> rakanishu wrote:
> > I don't know if I'd call 'em IDEs but it's worth taking the time to
> > learn either emacs or vim. Both are very powerful editors that run on
> > multiple platforms. I tried emacs three times, but couldn't get into
> > it. I'm now getting hooked on vim. YMMV.
>
> I love Vim. I really do. And it works wonderfully on both Linux and
> Windows with Exuberant ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/) on Python
> code. However the only thing that's bugging me is once I'm used to using
> Vi(that's practically the only editor I've ever use), I'm forever stuck
> with using Vi. I wish all other real IDEs comes with Vi mode, or I can
> somehow embed Vim in there (or someone else doing it for me as I'm not
> that technical). I would love to be using an IDE if it doesn't slow me
down.

I used to use Vim all the time but then at work I started doing
a lot of Visual Basic and C# programming and needed to use
the stupid MS IDE and it was slowing me down switching
back and forth between Vim's style and MS "style" so I
converted to Scite which is closer to MS style.  Once I figured
out how to roll my own "jump to tag" stack for Scite I really
started to like it.  It even fits on a floppy and there is no
installation.  Also you just hit F5 when you're editing Python
code and it runs it without having to download a Python ready
version like with Vim.

What's really amazing is that there are so many good editors and
IDE's available for free!

Just my $0.02,
Patrick