Notepad doesn't:
1. Indent automatically
2. Apply syntax coding
3. Show line numbers
4. Use 4-space tabs
All of the above are unacceptable. If you had said practically any other IDE, I would have agreed with you that it's your preference and that whatever you want to use is fine, but Notepad is a total, putrid, piece of crap for anything except taking...simple text notes.
Very true, it doesn't do all of those things .. automatically.
1. Just press the tab button
2. I prefer to write everything from scratch, i don't learn anything if a program is doing it for me.
3. Hit ctrl+g, shows you the line number your currently on
4. Press the space bar 4 - times
Call me old fasioned but i never liked programs doing it all for me, personally i see it as cheating and just straight lazy, and 1 major thing is the syntax coloring that these programs apply, made to make everything "easy" and will point out errors like missing a quotation from a string, to me debugging is part of programming, and the more practice i get, the better, but letting the program do it for me? Well, i just don't like that at all.
However everyone has their own opinion on things, and i can't make anyone go against there own, say mine or there's is better, because opinion is neither true or false.
03-05-2005, 07:20 PM
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