I do use external editors but not all the time. Only if there is a bigger
code I need to tweak. My favourite is vim and I can edit and browse source
code much faster with that, that's why using that for bigger things.

MPLABX is promising in a way that it is more like a modern IDE. It has many
features from code folding through variable / function browser to
auto completion. In my opinion you would be better trying MPLABX beta and
see if you like it's editor or not. If not, then start learning emacs or ma=
y
I suggest vim instead (which has even more steep learning curve than emacs
but then you would not regret it if you earn your money by coding).

Tamas


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Oli Glaser <oli.glaser@talktalk.net> wrote=
:

> Has anyone else got problems with MPLAB macros?
> They simply won't record for me, I press the "start recording" but
> nothing happens. I have messed around with firewall to see if there was
> some keystroke monitoring block in place or similar, did a quick Goggle
> but can't find much.
> I started using Notepad++, and I'm planning to start using this in MPLAB
> using the external editor feature. Since many of the other tools I use
> have such an option I thought I would try and use the same text editor
> for all my coding as some do. Main reason is to make use of the more
> advanced features not present in many IDE text editors. Having MPLAB
> work like Visual Studio would be nice...
> Any advice on this - what do others use or not use? Any reason why
> people avoid this route?
> I was looking at eMacs too, I used this briefly before but it has a
> pretty steep learning curve which I haven't really time for right now.
>
> The other question is - MPLAB or MPLABX?
> Any thought on which is "better", or knowledge of future support and
> development would be useful.
>
> TIA
>
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