Re: Programmers Text Editor

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Richard wrote:
> Looking to get into programming for linux, 
> would like to do: Java, Perl & Lisp
>
> What editors (IDE or RAD) environment application would work
> or if needed to run 2 or 3 different editors that would be fine too.
>
> (please no: emacs or vi (or command line apps) 
>
> wanting something that would be better than xcode on the mac,
> which contain all libraries, and syntax for dozen of languages,
> it just made it easier to type and see a drop down command choice,
> from the contextual menu. with a built-in debugger..neat.
>
> TIA -
> Richard

For professional quality, Slickedit is about the only general purpose one. 
Unfortunately there is no free equivalent that I'm aware of.

A built-in debugger implies an IDE, not just an editor.  I don't think any IDE 
will give you anything close to the feature set of a good programming editor. 
IDEs are very effective, however, if you only need to inflict the greatest 
possible damage with the least amount of technical skill.