Talk: Integrated development environment

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I made a few tweaks to the article. Also, I would like to list some Java IDEs. I do nearly all my Windows programming in Java, so I'd like to see some mention of Borland's JBuilder, Sun's Forte, IBM's VisualAge, et al. Ed Poor

Watcher (Talk) (replaced 'text editor' with 'source code editor')

The editing component in every IDE I know serves as a general purpose editor, for editing not just source code, but also configuration files, XML files, documents, README and LICENSE files, etc. This includes Microsoft Visual *, KDevelop, etc. -- SamRolken

In other words, it's a full text editor not just a source code editor. -- Derek Ross

Isn't every source code editor also a normal text editor? -- Panzi 12:29, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I think a "source code editor" is more advanced than a "text editor." That is, a source code editor is a specific kind of text editor. Of course a source code editor can be used to edit text, since source code is text. But a source code editor has advanced features as opposed to a text editor, such as syntax highlighting and (some have) things like "IntelliSense." IMHO, "source code editor" is more specific than "text editor." :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:16, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)

According to that definition Microsoft Word is a "source code editor". After all it has syntax checking, Intellisense, and other advanced features. But then any sufficiently advanced text editor can be configured with syntax highlighting, etc. The term, "source code editor", may be more specific than "text editor" but is the program that it refers to really something fundamentally different ? -- Derek Ross | Talk