Fayimora: Sublime isin't an IDE. It is a text editor that brings a bit of the power of TextMate to other platforms. 80% of the stuff in Sublime is from TextMate. As a matter of fact, the bundles I have in TextMate are shared with Sublime. Anyways it is a good editor and I think those features you listed above is just a tip of the iceberg! The grep functionality of the thing is AMAZING. It is also considerably faster than TextMate which makes me feel like am using vim.

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I don't have one as I hate IDE's But if I was forced to pick then I might pick XCode, 4.3 to be specific.

delomos:

Maybe or not, generally wikiP thinks an IDE should have:
- a source code editor
- build automation tools
- a debugger

S/T has all but the last (or maybe I just haven't found it). Perhaps you didn't read my intro to the question, I'm working on ASP/ on Windows; e-Text Editor is what compares itself to TM on MAC, and even works with native TM bundles. I personally haven't gotten into the TM swing, I've just stuck to RubyMine & PHPStorm which I'd really be replacing with Sublime.

Per that grep future, ummm, you mean RegEx, or grep as in Linux' grep <file>?

However, you didn't share what IDE you use and why. And don't forget, this is, "not a debate about which is better.."

@techytom:
I used to love Aptana until I met PHPStorm, and quite frankly considering I came from the "Eclipse/Java" community, it sat well with me -- could be overwhelming at times though.

Why do you dig Aptana?

I thought it would have been obvious enough. I don't use IDE's unless I am forced to, so Netbeans for large Java Projects, Eclipse for android development and XCode for iOS development. Everything else, am stuck with TextMate/Vi/Sublime.

I just have this love for the Terminal so you can't really blame me

Per that grep future, ummm, you mean RegEx, or grep as in Linux' grep <file>?

okeyxyz: @delomos, @fayimora,
what other FREE & POWERFUL text editors out there can you recommend? should not be less than notepad++

pc guru:
......Sublime is nice but i won't consider that an IDE....

delomos: @Fayimora:
I get the feeling you don't completely read the question asked "..FREE & POWERFUL text editors. Sublime isn't free but certainly powerful

bb6xt: I'll go for PyCharm any day, but Editra is also a cool second choice.[color=#770077][/color]

Seun: I used to love Netbeans because it supported multiple languages and it didn't impose any structure on projects, but since netbeans 7 dropped support for Python, I've been stuck with Netbeans 6.9.2.

I'm trying to pick up Eclipse because it supports most Open Source languages and tools (e.g. git) very well, but I find it to be far less responsive than Eclipse and much less flexible (for example, you can't include source directories outside your project directory)

candylips: Seun why will you want to include source directories outside the project directory.

You can easily create a seperate project for this right ??

Seun: I used to love Netbeans because it supported multiple languages and it didn't impose any structure on projects, but since netbeans 7 dropped support for Python, I've been stuck with Netbeans 6.9.2.

I'm trying to pick up Eclipse because it supports most Open Source languages and tools (e.g. git) very well, but I find it to be far less responsive than Netbeans and much less flexible (for example, you can't include source directories outside your project directory)

Ghenghis: Can't you use the import feature and point to any path you want ?
From experience eclipse rarely forces you to do anything.

fatezy: Surprised I haven't seen Visual Studio mentioned here. Is it because there are not that many Microsoft programmers on here?
I'm here thinking VS is the best gift to man since sliced bread

delomos:

Apart from Sliced Bread been over-rated, what's particularly great about VS, I've personally haven't great experience with it but then you might have used it more?