Originally posted by peter wooster:
I hate the .Net editor, it make too many assumptions about what I want to do. I've used lots of different IDEs and find them all intrusive. I actually used JBuilder Standard Edition for quite a while and found it one of the better in the IDE world. Currently I use jEdit, its not slow if your machine is more tham 500MHz and has more than 512Meg memory. If your machine is less than that, you should consider replacing it.
When you have a large network topology running on a java based simulator in the background while editing.. you begin to feel the big difference between compiled code and non compiled code
(even with 1GB memory
). But even under normal conditions the slight perfromance penalty of jEdit is noticable although the features and ease of use make it much better than most of the editors outhere.