As the title suggests, im wondering if there are editors available for use with VBA script apart from the default built-in one.

Im really starting to get sick of the limitations of this editor as my code gets more and more complicated.

Two of my best programming buddies use EMACS for just about everything, including VB, C#, C, C++, Java, etc.

I'm not sure why someone would want to go through the hassle of learning a new editor, especially since I would be worried that Intellisense doesn't work right. I guess if you're good at that type of thing, EMACS is probably a great candidate.

As the title suggests, im wondering if there are editors available for use with VBA script apart from the default built-in one.

Im really starting to get sick of the limitations of this editor as my code gets more and more complicated.

Or just get MZTools.

Two of my best programming buddies use EMACS for just about everything, including VB, C#, C, C++, Java, etc.

I'm not sure why someone would want to go through the hassle of learning a new editor, especially since I would be worried that Intellisense doesn't work right. I guess if you're good at that type of thing, EMACS is probably a great candidate.

Interesting! I wouldn't have thought EMACs (are they supposed to be fully capitalized? I've seen it written as eMac [probably the Apple computer] or just emac?) would be a good candidate for VB. Other languages, definitely, but VB is a surprise.

Did they get Intellisense (or similar functionality) to work as well?

I'm not really sure. The programmer in question doesn't get online long enough to ask him. I was a bit surprised to see he was using something I didn't equate with his current environment (VS 2005). He told me it was EMACS and that he had been working with it in MS environments for 10 years.

Please be aware I was referring to the Gnu EMACS, not some other brand that might be out there. I downloaded it last night and tried it out. I can't even figure out how to configure it, much less use it to type in VB with (or without) Intellisense.

Yes, I figured it was GNU's EMACS, (still confused about the proper capitalization. will have to check that one), which was also why I didn't think it as a natural candidate for VB, given that we have VS, and that VB is for all practical purpose, essentially owned by Microsoft, as opposed to C/C++ which is basically everywhere. I know there's some variants out there that runs on different OS and there's Mono, but really, why? Python wipes the floor and does it better than a bastardized dialect of VB for any *nix environment, IMO. Same is true of Perl, I'm sure, though I've been afraid to try it.

Yes, EMACS are fugly to configure, but I understand that once you have it just the way you want it, it's great. Do I want to spend a year configuring it to my needs then never move off it? Not really.

I'm a vim man myself, though I'd sooner go to VS for any coding in .NET. Vim really makes perfect sense for editing config files.