What's your favorite programming environment?

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I've used Visual Studio, JGrasp, and XCode, but my favorite one is definitely Vim. What's yours?

Turbo Pascal, Delphi.

I'm using Gel with my current project. It's just what I already had. I like it though

Vim, of course.

Big bulky flashy things like Xcode and Eclipse just confuse me. I have enough trouble with programming, I don't want to have to fight so hard to get a piece of software to let me write code.

I'll give you my programming history:
I started programming in 1988 in BASIC on one of these old machines with monochrome green screen and two cartridge slots, one for a minicassette and one for a large cassette, featuring a 2.5 MHz 8-bit microprocessor
In 1999 I've programmed in Turbo Pascal in Delphi.
In 2000 I made a website in HTML 4.
Since 2001 I've been programming in MATLAB; designing and running experiments and collecting and analysing data.
In 2004 I've also programmed C++ in Xcode for a while.
Most of my programming experience is with MATLAB, which also is my favourite

Here's a related/similar topic, I don't know if you noticed: For those programmers out there

I might be old fashioned and the computer aspies might get upset with me but I would rather use Fortran or one of the better forms of Basic.

I always found fortran to be like basic with some of the commands missing, but with more weight placed on the idea of the GOSUB command.

vim

I've tried most IDEs, over time, but eventually find that I have to drop out from them, to get a particularly fiddly bit of editing done - when I either use vim, or write my own code to to the edit. Sometimes I even go so far as to invent my own meta-language, which then involves me in customising something to do my syntax highlighting for me. Textpad used to be nice for that sort of game.

In any case... eventually, vim is the fall-back solution, which will work.

My beginning just a couple of years earlier was similar, but at only 2 MHz and with an amber screen ... then I learned and did some 6502 in an assembler ... and after completing a specific project, that is as far as I ever got. I had wanted to get started in the early '70s, and I really wish I had. But, I could not come up with the money for a computer at that time.

A quiet room with no disturbances.

ruveyn

Visual studio! Thats is my favourite environment.

i used so many...
at moment i us kate texteditor in linux to write python code
i used Qt Creator to write C++ with the Qt lib for Linux & Win
on a Mac textmate is a great editor

NetBeans isn't too bad if you like those all in one envs with tons of options
Eclipse sucks
KDevelop wasn't too bad

I enjoy Programmer's Notepad as a multi-language environment. I can open it up and have say a session of JavaScript right next to HTML right next to VBScript and it automatically adjusts the color scheme to match each language appropriately. Additionally, if I have some code open and run the code I can make slight modifications in the code from another environment (like VB Script for our AS/400) and a window in PN pops up notifying me of the change and allowing me to update PN.

Unfortunately, there isn't a scheme for ActionScript, but I can use the JavaScript scheme just the same (for the most part)

Oh snap

I am using emacs + sbcl + slime to code in Common lisp.

Gedit + glade programming in python.

I still use Delphi 5 for Windows programming. Even if I'm using Eclipse for MSP430 or AVR32 development I tend to do most of my editing in Delphi just because I'm used to it.