Syntax related color-coding/highlighting, IDES, etc...

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

Someone at the meeting asked about file editors that color code the display
of source files based on syntax. I think the questioner wanted to know if 
these a e available for Linux, and the answer was something like "yes, in 
spades". Now, I don't generally keep a snootful of URLs on me, and since I 
said I'd send some out over the mailing list (and I was showing someone
search engones and net resources today), here are a few that took us under
ten minutes to sniff out:

http://www.codeforge.com/
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/jcc/ 
http://ftp.x.org/contrib/editors/
http://space.tin.it/io/saserafi/zed.html 

It should be added that the ftp,x,org site contains a bunch of such edit-
ors. How many constitute a bunch? Go look! We didn't have THAT much time! :)
Also, anyone looking for an IDE for Linux would be remiss in not looking 
at XWPE, EMACS and other toolsets.

Also, I urge the questioner to do some surfing (try some of the links on our
links page, they've been selected with some care for coverage of software
packages availabel). And anyone else out there with some answers... chip in!
What YOUR favorite way to write, browse, debug, or otherwise create working
code?

I tend to put 4 xterms up, use one for vi, one to debug, one to browse, and 
one extra (to look at something else, like test input), and just GO! I've
also used Sparcworks and the Borland and MS tools, as well as Visual Age
(from IBM), and XWPE (mentioned above). I find the multi-xterms approach
nice and fast... tell me what I'm missing by not using your favorite environ-
ment.