alternatives to m$ visual studio

[Myles Braithwaite]

If you looking for an alternative to VS I would first suggest eclipse. I 
personally use Vim from the command line. If you doing any Python 
programming I found eric is quite nice. It all matters what you will be 
developing in? PHP? Python? C? C++? C#?

Andrey Vul wrote:
> I'm looking for free alternatives to Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005. I
> don't mean the toolchain because i can use MINGW, but its IDE. Any
> good code editors with an IDE similar to Visual Studio?
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> Andrey Vul
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