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[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
Hi Daniel,

As I'm ever on the lookout for a replacement for my aging and pretty much EOL'd [url="http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/"]Quanta[/url] IDE, I thought I'd give your recommendation a try. The closest alternative I've discovered so far has been Aptana - but despite weighing in at about 300MB (compared to Quanta's 6MB) it can't show tabs without also showing spaces (who needs that?) and CR's (ditto), can be configured to understand about 27 styles of indenting (but not mine), does random and annoying things with returns on indented lines, takes ages to start up, is a right royal pain to customise the colours for (and you can't customise the interface, only the editor colours anyway) .. and a few other things that for the sake of sanity I've forgotten.

Anyway ...


[quote author="Daniel Moore" date="1260229821"]
It sounds to me like your product is a glorified text editor being touted as an IDE.
[/quote]

The first warning should have been that UEStudio is only available as a Microsoft download (specifically the warning is that they have a Fista symbol near the download button). UE is available for various GNU/Linux distros, though ..

I also do programming for desktop boxes in Windows/Linux/Mac from time to time (my most recent job) and need an IDE that can support what I do there as well.

Presumably when you're on a more powerful operating system you only need a glorified text editor.

As an aside, and in case anyone else stumbles across this thread while considering UE / UltraEdit for Linux, it also can't show tabs without showing spaces and paragraph marks too (what is this - Word 5?), bracket highlighting only shows the *other* bracket - so it always looks unbalanced and makes it harder to do 'at a glance' stuff, opening an existing project is hugely counter-intuitive (I couldn't get it to sanely add the contents of an extant folder to a Project at all), the Debian package's dependencies are a bit screwy with regards coping with newer versions of shared libraries (viz it doesn't) ... and I'll stop there.