DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

[John Colvin]

On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 22:35:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:48:52 +0100
> "Regan Heath" <regan at netmail.co.nz> wrote:
>> 
>> I use Notepad++ now and have used TextPad in the past.  But, 
>> those
>> are just text editors with syntax highlighting (fairly 
>> flexibly and
>> simply customisable highlighting BTW).
>> 
>> What are the basic features you would require of a development
>>  environment, I am thinking of features which go beyond the 
>> basic
>> concept of a text editor, such as:
>> 
>> - The concept of a 'project' or some other collection of source
>> files which can be loaded/displayed in some fashion to make it 
>> easier
>> to find/select/edit individual files
>> 
>> - The ability to hook in 'tools' to key presses like "compile"
>> executing "dmd ..." or similar.
>> 
>
> I've been using Programmer's Notepad 2 (for *all* my 
> development for
> the past few years), which is *mostly* a syntax highlighting
> editor, but also has a concept of projects, configurable tools, 
> and
> "click an error to jump to it's line in the source". And I've 
> never had
> it crash or get wonky, or slowdown, or stall, or use a lot of 
> resources,
> ever.
>
> (It also supports ctags, although I've never used it.)

Geany is also nice. It's slightly more IDE-like than the above 
but is still very lightweight and simple.