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Top Forums Programming Open Source What editor does everyone use? Post 302087778 by Corona688 on Tuesday 5th of September 2006 06:00:48 PM
Old 09-05-2006
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Originally Posted by james hanley
why use syntax highlighting? If programming, then a development IDE is better, has a good debugger.
The text editors in a lot of IDE's are moronic. Being designed to edit code beyond anything else, they contain features specifically designed for certain languages and formatting styles, but more often than not, programmers end up fighting these features rather than using them. So, even when they use an IDE, a lot of programmers prefer to edit the code in something else.

Using an IDE also forces you to do things a certain way. KDevelop forces me to use automake, for instance... This is a big problem because I hate automake. It's just that bad. KDevelop and automake singlehandedly gave me the impetus to learn the art of makefiles.

Also, a lot of the time, a full IDE is overkill. Know any good IDE's for bash? Fat chance. Do any text editors have syntax highlighting for bash? Plenty!

Also, not everyone uses the same IDE. I'm not about to buy CodeWarrior for the privilege of editing someone else's source code, and want to avoid cramming my own IDE-of-choice down their throat.

Lastly, some people, for some reason, find smaller, tighter programs easier to use than all-singing-all-dancing-mash-everything-together-into-one-giant-interface monstrosities. I can't imagine why.

Last edited by Corona688; 09-05-2006 at 07:12 PM..
 

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PDCIDE(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						 PDCIDE(4)

NAME
pdcide -- Promise IDE disk controllers driver SYNOPSIS
pdcide* at pci? dev ? function ? flags 0x0000 DESCRIPTION
The pdcide driver supports the Promise Ultra33, Ultra66, Ultra100, Ultra100TX2, Ultra100TX2v2, Ultra133, Ultra133TX2, Ultra133TX2v2, Fast- trak133 and Serial ATA/150 IDE controllers, and provides the interface with the hardware for the ata(4) driver. The 0x0002 flag forces the pdcide driver to disable DMA on chipsets for which DMA would normally be enabled. This can be used as a debugging aid, or to work around problems where the IDE controller is wired up to the system incorrectly. SEE ALSO
ata(4), atapi(4), intro(4), pci(4), pciide(4), wd(4), wdc(4) BUGS
The timings used for the PIO and DMA modes for controllers listed above are for a PCI bus running at 30 or 33 MHz. This driver may not work properly on overclocked systems. The pdcide driver does NOT function correctly on NetBSD/sparc64. BSD
December 23, 2003 BSD
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