What is your coding environment like?

[Shadow Skill]

Out of curiosity what kind of environment do all of you use? What I mean is how do you set your ide/text editor up do you listen to music while working, how many code related windows do you tend to have open at the same time? What sorts of features of your ide/text editor do you take advantage of frequently and couldn't live without now that you know about them?

My Work environment usually looks something like what is in the screenshot.

[tashirosgt]

I like to have 3 gnome terminals open with different color backgrounds. I use microemacs which ( up to FC3 ) still compiles and works. At home, I turn on the television but it sits around the corner where I can't see it. So I periodically stand up and take a tour of the TV and the refrigerator. A curious paradox is that I enjoy most music when I hear it but I don't go out of my way to be around it. I rarely play cds and I certainly would never try to work with a pair of earphones on.

[mjman]

For writing Perl, I usually have two gnome terminals open. One is full-screen, in which I edit my program with VIM, and the other sits on top, and I use it for debugging as I write.

For Java, I use DrJava. It's a very nice ide, and very full featured. Nowhere close to eclipse, but I like the simplicity of it.

[Mat]

I tend to spread my code over many files (if properly organized, it helps to find procedures quicker).. so I almost always have like four or five editors open... I then add to that some terminals.. some with man pages, other with temporary scripts to test the output of stuff etc..

I also like to spread all those windows across my 4 virtual desktops...


and every hour or so, when it became to confusing and unorganized, I just close every window on screen and start anew


and as for music.. that's mostly metal stuff.. so everything that's loud. somehow that helps me concentrate on the task at hand and not distracts me from things that happen out on the street..
that's all with headphones cause I'm mostly programming at night and don't want to wake the whole block



came to think about it, I'm just lucky to program just for fun and not in an business environment

Mat

[BrokenKingpin]

Originally Posted by Mat

I tend to spread my code over many files (if properly organized, it helps to find procedures quicker).. so I almost always have like four or five editors open... I then add to that some terminals.. some with man pages, other with temporary scripts to test the output of stuff etc..

I also like to spread all those windows across my 4 virtual desktops...


and every hour or so, when it became to confusing and unorganized, I just close every window on screen and start anew


and as for music.. that's mostly metal stuff.. so everything that's loud. somehow that helps me concentrate on the task at hand and not distracts me from things that happen out on the street..
that's all with headphones cause I'm mostly programming at night and don't want to wake the whole block


came to think about it, I'm just lucky to program just for fun and not in an business environment

Mat

That is almost exactly how I program, both at work and at home

[Mat]

hope you're alone in your office then