You are kindly invited to take participation in the questionnaire on „Text editors popularity among programmers". Tha data gathered will be used for a scientific research. The stats for the results will be published on all portals where the questionnaire was done. Thank you! 1. For how long have you worked as a programmer? 2. Any particular programming languages you mostly use? 3. For what purposes? 4. Which text editors do you use? 5. What defined your choice? 6. Which text editors you might have been using before? 7. Do you follow the other text editors updates? 8. Which text editors you DID NOT like? Why? 9. What functions might some text editors be missing in your opinion?
Hi, let me answesr this questionnaire.. 1. i'm work as freelance programmer 3 years now 2. i'm good at php, html, css, node js, mysql 3. mostly i'm created data scraping tools 4. i'm using sublime text for my text editor 5. sublime text really fast, also portable (optional) 6. netbean php editor 7. not really 8. notepad 9. auto connect ftp from text editor
>> 1. For how long have you worked as a programmer? I've been programming for some 35 years now. >> 2. Any particular programming languages you mostly use? Assembly, Pascal, C, PHP, JS, HTML, CSS... In the past I've hand compiled machine language, DiBol, clipper, Paradox, Fortran, Cobol, Prolog... >> 3. For what purposes? Double entry accounting systems, membership management, development (as in fundraising), website development, and even some 'simple' games... >> 4. Which text editors do you use? Right now my weapon of choice is Flo's Notepad 2.. >> 5. What defined your choice? The ability to turn things off or lack of even including crap I can't stand in certain editors. For example the ability to turn off tabs as for a multiple-display user tabbed editors are a massive step BACKWARDS in functionality when you want things in separate windows on separate displays and have a perfectly good PORTRAIT MODE non-collapsing taskbar. The illegible acid trip known as 'colour syntax highlighting' is another annoyance I turn off since the constantly changing colors makes it impossible for me to actually read my code. Autocomplete is more annoying bull in pretty much all it's forms. There's a LOT of crap like code folding, auto-close, and so forth that just gets in my damned way instead of actually helping me! ... and I swear most of those things are why people write bloated slow outdated half-assed code in the first place. Over-reliance on tools to cover up developer ineptitude! There are features I do like -- the word-wrap indicators, long-line indicator, indentation guides, and visual brace matching for example are 'must haves' -- and once you turn off the stupid colour highlighting they stand out more making them far more useful. >> 6. Which text editors you might have been using before? Prior to that notepad 2 was using Crimson Editor, and before that was Win32pad. >> 7. Do you follow the other text editors updates? Notepad 2 does what I need done, it's a miracle if I keep up with it's updates. (Usually the only reason I get a new version is a fresh OS install on new hardware). It's a text editor, once it... edits text, what the blue blazes is there to update?!? >> 8. Which text editors you DID NOT like? Why? For the most part I hate anything that tries to tell me how to program or sucks down RAM like candy. We're editing code -- that's so piss simple that if you need fancy tools, you're probably doing it all wrong. I REALLY hate editors that don't let you turn off tabs, don't let you run more than one window/instance, ones that shove auto-completion and colour syntax down your throat... and I REALLY hate ones that are 'language specific'. I also dislike when there's no menu, but they crap all these tiny little icons on the toolbar that I basically have to wait for the tooltip to figure out what the **** they even do since there's no way in hell I'd ever guess what the picture means... since that type of idiocy is 'false simplicity' -- sometimes "a thousand words" can be pwned by one simple word like load, save, search, replace or exit. I also hate editors that waste time on stupid 'skins' that don't detect the host font metric or simply don't match the OS. See 99% of the crap people vomit up in Java. That's just "gee ain't it neat" bullshit that really has no place in something like an editor. Same goes for garbage like FTP since that just encourages live editing, something that shouldn't EVER be done in the first place and is just more crap for each editor instance. You want to test, that's what local testing is for! (XAMPP, WAMP, etc) >> 9. What functions might some text editors be missing in your opinion? See my 'DID NOT like' list. Mostly it's about the ability to turn automatic "features" off... since once you actually know how to program most of that crap just makes it take longer and gets in the way of what's important, ACTUALLY WRITING CODE. One thing I would like to see is the ability to make the window auto-size to the long-line indicator when word-wrap is on. Since I operate under 'rule 76', it would be handy if the editor reflected that. Snap to edge or sibling editor windows would be nice too so when I have markup, style and scripting side-by-side they could be dragged together, or be separated when I want them on separate displays.