Comments on: SlickEdit v11

by: Oyun

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:59:55 +0000

thank you

by: Proxy Dinle

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:59:35 +0000

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by: MÃ¼zik Dinle

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:59:14 +0000

thankss

by: Magneto

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:57:06 +0000

Visual Studio has no match nor comparison.
- Face it -

by: dantel

Mon, 26 May 2008 13:51:09 +0000

Thanx you nice text

by: Webmaster

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:04:29 +0000

I think you did a great job of pointing out the major strengths and weaknesses of the book.

by: ÅžarkÄ± SÃ¶zleri

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:28:24 +0000

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by: Chat

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:51:30 +0000

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by: Simon Martin

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:58:44 +0000

A while ago I investigated quite a few different code editors (C/C++) and SlickEdit came out on top. AFAIR the finalists were UltraEdit, SlickEdit, Programmer Studio, and Zeus.

SlickEdit beat them all in every aspect except Programmer Studio’s “Remote project”, where you can edit, compile, run and debug applications on a remote server. This is the coolest thing I have ever seen and I have been trying to get SlickEdit to implement it.

The two features that sold me on SlickEdit are:

1.- I write code all day, every day. I like to keep my fingers on the keyboard and type. This is such a boost to productivity, and SlickEdit is fantastically good at it. But it takes a little time to get used to the shortcuts.

2.- Code browsing/searching is unsurpassed as far as I am concerned. SlickEdit preparses you development environment, not just you file includes, so you can search for functions in includes you haven’t included yet!

Over time I have learnt other things as well, but that will happen with any tool you use, these 2 really stick out for me.

by: maarten

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:56:04 +0000

okay, this quote is stolen from their own promo site:
“Calling SlickEdit an editor is like calling the F-16 a single-seat airplane.” -Mac Stevens, SlickEdit user since 2003
Still, I think this is entirely accurate.It takes some time to learn to fly this one, but it flies higher and faster than any of the others.
BUT I do admit, this depends very much on the language you work in. I’m talking c++ now. Your mileage may vary especially if there’sother good tools, like Eclipse for Java, Zend for PHP, or any powerful text editor for some of the other languages.

To answer sylvain’s question — why buy if there’s free tools — well, the standard editor for eclipse/CDT (the c++ environment for Eclipse) sucks big time. Its basic code analysis is just plain broken. Everything that you love about Java support in Eclipse, well, it’s just not there for c++. Jump to function definition? Forget it. Show all references for this symbol? Nope. Calculate through the state of all #defines at a given point ? Nope.
SlickEdit has about THE best code analysis and refactoring support for c++ on the planet. Even better than Visual Studio 2005, which does have very good c++ “Intellisense” .
Problem is with c++, for anumber reasons, it’s just much much more difficult to get your code analysis and “intelligent autocomplete” etc working for c++ than for, say, java.
Basically, you have to almost fully interpret the code.
Anyway - It costs - but this plus the Eclipse debugger makes for a good c++ alternative to Visual Studio, especially for cross-platform developers.