Reality Factory

I have been using Netbeans and SciTE for programming at college for a while now, however, I have found that I am not a fan of either of them. They are ok, but Netbeans is too large and "heavy" and SciTE is too basic. So I am looking for a new IDE or text editor to do programming of which will consist of Java, and possibly some C/C++. If anyone knows of a good free one or has their own favorite I would like to hear about it. I have just stumbled upon Eclipse today and after a few minutes playing in it, it seems nice, but I have read its not designed for use as a coding application, but a toolkit for creating toolkits? At least thats how it is described in Ubuntu's application manager. Any suggestions would be welcome.

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Try notepad++

There is Eclipse, Code::Blocks, Visual J++ 2008 Express. For Java, I would use Eclipse.

LOL.

When I saw this topic I was going to suggest Notepad++.

I guess I made the right choice in text editors.

Thanks for the input. I am downloading and testing Notepad++ and Eclipse. Cross platform coding is what I need, being able to code some on my Linux(Ubuntu 8.10) laptop and then on a Windows machine which I should have mentioned in my first post. Heck, I might find that SciTE was the best option. I got Notepad++ installed on linux using wine. And actually just found out that gedit has syntax highlighting by creating a test java file for notepad++ to open. Anyhow, thanks for your input. I'll make a choice after putting them through some paces to see whats best for me.

On linux my first choice would be gedit. I wish windows came default with such a great program! I haven't found a language that it didn't just support with out even having to tell it what language you were using.