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I worked with VS in ~2001 until 2006 and I absolutely loved it. There was those things that you could click and all the panels every where. Since 2006, I worke
by dan_sim 17y ago
I worked with VS in ~2001 until 2006 and I absolutely loved it. There was those things that you could click and all the panels every where.
Since 2006, I worked with php & rails in ubuntu. I tried everything from Eclipse to Kokomodo but never found anything that could be as good as VS. I mostly use gEdit.
A week ago, I started to work on VS2008 and it finally hit me... I hate Visual Studio for all the same reasons that I loved it before.
Writing code in gEdit is a freeing experience. It's just you and your code.
- dkersten 17y agoWait till you figure out vim or emacs! Now thats an experience (good, bad or otherwise...)
- pbz 17y agoWhat's wrong with the fullscreen mode in VS, or disabling all those windows that you seem to hate? Wouldn't you get the same result?
- bugs 17y agoWhat need does he have for an IDE without all those buttons and knobs?
- bmj 17y agoIf you're doing .NET development, VS is still pretty useful without all the knobs and buttons. That said, are there any "out of the box" solutions for using a simple text editor along with some sort of build tool for working with VS projects? I realize I could write my own build scripts, but I was wondering if there are any tools available.
- altano 17y agoI use Visual Studio all day every day as nothing but a text editor (for the most part). It has the best find/replace I've seen in a text editor. jEdit has better functionality, such as PCRE find/replace with good backreference support, but it's too complex for day to day use and the rest of the thing sucks. It's also extremely customizable. When you're doing C++ development on a large project and no IDE is really going to cut it in terms of Intellisense and build tools, find/replace becomes a ton more important. shrug