In a recent post: "What does your favorite text editor say about you", the author lists popular text editors and what they say about their users. Here is the Editor or IDE I use with various programming languages:
Python: SciTE Perl: SciTE C#: Visual Studio Java: Eclipse
I do all of my writing and a large portion of my programming in a plain old text editor. Most of the code I write is in Python. I love using a lightweight text editor instead of a big bloated IDE. So... I pretty much live inside a text editor.
... and I love SciTE. It rocks equally on Windows and GNU/Linux. So what does this say about me?
SciTE: "Your text editor is lightweight, full featured, extensible and cross platform. In addition, it can work as a stand-alone executable which requires no installation. Fits perfectly with all your other portable tools on your USB thumb drive. You also love how SciTE let’s you write Lua scripts to extend it’s functionality. You take your text editor choice very seriously. You like tinkering, and minimalistic, portable applications."
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