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Visual Studio 2008 + Notepad2 here is all I need to get my job done :)!!!

Editor used for most programming:  SciTE

IDE: NetBeans

Notepad2 and Intype... Was primarily Editplus.

I mainly use VS2008 now, but I really like Delphi's IDE, especially for multi-monitor support. It was very hard for me to let go of the bookmarking system (Ctrl+Shift+<number from 0 to 9> to set and then Ctrl+<number from 0 to 9> to go back) or the every useful Alt+G. Good thing there's (the free) DPack out there. Seriously, I press Alt+U, type two or three letters and it finds the file in the solution, then I press Alt+G and a few letters and it find the method in the current file....

VS2008 and Notepad2.

SlickEdit 2008 + VS 2008.  SlickEdit ROCKS

VS 2008 + PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/)

I use PSPad for temporary storage, cut/paste, quick editing of files ... all the times when I want to done something quickly because VS is too slooow.

VS08 + Resharper (I can't stand having to use vanilla VS - the navigation sucks).

Textmate for HTML/CSS drafting (I'd use it for more, but I need an excuse for that...)

VS2008, plain old notepad, SQL Server Management Studio, Expression Blend, SQL Yog, Expresso (for regular expressions) and a little NetBeans (when I need to code Java - hate it though).

VS2008, SQL Studio, Blend2, waiting for SL kxaml  and notepad ++ (free, not like notepad2)

VS2008, CodeWright 6.5

VS2008 (with EMacs bindings), EMacs

textmate only (php, html, js, mootools )

VS 2005/VS 2008 Express (can't afford Pro version yet), TextPad and Notepad++. The reason I use all three is that no one is better than the others in *every* respect. One example is that TextPad has the best Find in Files of the three. But, OTOH, it lacks incremental search which VS and Notepad++ have.

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VS 2005, UltraEdit, Microsoft Expression Web. On the Mac I use ActiveState's Komodo Edit. But the only editor that "rocks my world" is the Propellerhead Reason track editor for working on rock music. LOL.  

Visual Studio and Notepad++

What's the point of all of this? Are you going to be working on a new IDE or something?

The primary Editor I use is Notepad++ => This is mainly because it supports tabbed notes, supports syntaxes of many languages and has keyword highlighting (which in some cases is amazingly helpful)

Most Preferred IDE: Eclipse => keyword highlighting (in terms of variables/methods, this is scope based), quick searchable outline (this is for member variables/methods inside the class, and can even show their access modifiers and their inheritance hierarchy), quick view of the type hierarchy for the class, call hierarchy based searching, the "build automatically" feature works well to point out errors/error-files pretty quickly, in built search tool to find resources/types.......... to name a few from the top of my head..

And I do not go to a text-alone editor when coding..

Visual Studio 2008..Thats all what i need... :)

I can't answer without intertwining usage in there. That is, you often can't unwind an IDE from a language (or platform) if the former was designed around the latter to produce a targeted RAD solution.

For example, when working with C# I think VS08 is pretty darn smart. It's made up of all these little bonds between IDE & platform that make .Net code just flow together. C# is incredibly easy, due in part to the IDE.

But if you're not doing .Net, Visual Studio is about as helpful as herpes. For C++ I'm using Borland because while I don't think much of their IDE, at least it was made to help me build C++ code.

Experiences such as these lead me to believe that the pursuit of a perfect, generic IDE is a fool's errand. Strong decoupling of the IDE from the language simply cannot produce a development environment that equals the experience delivered by a comprehensive RAD solution like Devstudio/.Net.

So I guess the short version is, I use the best tool for the job.

XCode and DashCode on Mac (I just wanted that Microsoft add a plugin like Instruments/Quartz on VS)

Visual Studio on Windows

:)

I primarily use VS 2008 for .NET related stuff and Eclipse 3 for Java related stuff.

Both really rock. I prefer VS to Eclipse for its very simple solution-oriented concept, something I think Eclipse is sorely lacking. Of course, Eclipse has a ton of great features like perspectives that I think should be in VS, but ultimately VS wins the day.

Visual Studio 2008 for .NET development

PHP Designer for PHP devel

Aptana for JavaScript devel

and the little notepad for temporary notes

Microsoft could still learn from Eclipse (e.g. Outline View, Refactoring, Incremental builds).

VS2005 for .NET (don't do much .net stuff)

VS2005 for C++ -- grudgingly, I think VS treats C++ as such a poor relation.

VB6 -- because that is how you do VB6 ;)

Delphi 6 -- That is how you do Delphi

Notepad++ -- quite like this for ah-hoc editing.

Visual Studio 2008 ,Notepad

Now that I'm doing Ruby full-time, I happily spend my day in TextMate and iTerm.

Notepad++ and VS.NET 2008 in Mac I use TextMate.

I have am slowly learning Eclipse it feels quite promising but from usability aspects I still love VS.NET.

For me VS2008 really rocks, but for quick editing (even C#) I use Programmers Notpad, or Notepad++. Recently my friends recommended me EmEditor. I am using it for a few days. Don't like it! I think I should also try Notpad2, and choose one of the 4.

Visual Studio 2008 for my livelihood. gvim + vim for everythign else.

jdeveloper and more recently netbeans 6.5 for Java development.

notepad++ for quick and dirty editing of anything

komodo edit for some stuff as well.

I'm always on the lookout for new editors/ides

Notepad2 - for quick edits on all files (aspx, c#, php, config files e.t.c.)

Komodo - PHP programming (Komodo freakin rocks)

PHP Designer - PHP programming

VS2008 - ASP.Net programming