I personally don't use them at all, but that's only a matter of personal preference and is thus irrelevant to any of this.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Benefits Primarily because it reduces the amount of key and clicks I make, on my fingers I use something simple like Notepad++ or Eclipse in a basic mode. I still write code within, but it's nice to get the color codiing, etc. Why not? 1) syntax checker saves time 2) shortcut keys to perform various tasks (open a comment) 3) linking libraries and stuff like that, things I did not code but need to include 4) compile shortcuts. My fingers and wrists can get worn out after a week of heavy coding, and I am more about the thinking / logic than the typing exercise. My guess Dave is you have a lot of personal little short cuts and processes that you use for your own personalized IDE. Probably IDE's show you down, which I can understand. Bill