PeterV writes:
I'll try the emacs approach (or better Xemacs because Emacs on Windows has really ugly font smoothing), but I must say that - being an old school object-oriented programmer who got spoiled by fully integrated IDEs like Borland's TurboPascal, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Eclipse - switching to emacs or VIM is not an easy task :)
Switching to Emacs will never be an easy task (I think the quote is "A learning curve you can use as a plumb line"), but once you have, I very much doubt you'll ever want to go back to anything else. :) The Emacs tour [1] (newer beta version also available [2]) give a quick flavour of why you might fall in love with Emacs. [1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ [2]: http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/emacs/emacs-guided-tour-1.html By the way, ClearType support works fine in Emacs 22. I understand there is one small rendering glitch related to font-lock (some columns of pixels are truncated, see [3]), but it's most definitely usable. [3]: http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1254/emacscleartypebugdg9.png -- -David House, dmhouse@gmail.com