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I use 3 monitors at work. The laptop monitor, and 2 big flat panel monitors.
It makes my life so much easier, especially when debugging applications.
Question, if you still use one monitor, do you also code in notepad?
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I only got a second monitor a few years ago, and no, I didn't code in Notepad.
Vi was the King! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Vi
 ugh.
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It's actually pretty fast for certain things. It is a pain in the butt to remember all the damn commands though.
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Albert Holguin wrote: It is a pain in the butt to remember all the damn commands though
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Once you learn certain commands though, editing text files becomes fast. The commands for vi are also the same as commands for other linux programs like less, so you learn them for one and can use them in the other.
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Emacs.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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edlin
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Edlin? Who/what? Oh its a Pre Windows Windows thing. Never had the pleasure!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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It was better than a compass and a bar magnet, but not by much! 
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3 squarish ones at work, one widescreen at home.
I actually think one big one is better than several, for whenever an application spans more than one monitor, the lines never line up properly.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: for whenever an application spans more than one monitor
I don't configure my setup to have applications span more than one monitor.
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Just 1 monitor, and I use Visual Studio for coding (Notepad sometimes for .config files)
2nd monitor would be nice, but the budget for development is low...
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vonb wrote: the budget for development is low
Sorry to hear.
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vonb wrote: Notepad sometimes for .config files
Yikes  ! I use Notepad++ for anything outside of a 'real editor'. As soon as I have an open browser window at a new post I have Notepad++.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I'm rocking three over here, but I'm a poser!
Pro-tip: If your graphics card doesn't support 3 (or more) you can probably still make it work with one of these[^], I'm using one right now and it works perfectly.
modified 10-Dec-14 10:13am.
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+1 for the USB video adapter.
That's how I have 3 monitors hooked up to my Surface Pro. I'd get more if I had the physical space.
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Like OG I got my second monitor a few years ago and was using this[^] to program. 
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There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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for the HEX editor link.
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I use only one 23inch at work, because the second you can get is cr@p and I cherish my eyes.
Yes I write code in notepad mainly xsds and xmls  Who doesn't love the all time crashes of VS during xsd transformations debug.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Notepad is _the_ tool for XML. 
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I still use 1 monitor at work.
But actually I'm working on a Qt application running on a Raspberry Pi using a small (480x320) touch display. So the main monitor is used for hanging around at CP, cross compiling for the Pi using a VM with Ubuntu (Qt Creator to answer the notepad question), and accessing the Pi using PuTTY (SSH). Another monitor is connected to the Pi's HDMI port to watch the debug output. Does this all this count as 3?
I use Notepad++ instead of MS Notepad, but not for programming. However, on the Pi I'm using nano for small programs and scripts.
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Who can manage development on only one monitor?
Between the desktop and the laptop I have seven; the laptop built-in plus an external and the desktop can support up to six but I ran out of desk space. ...and yes, I have a valid use for all of them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Somewhere in the photo archives is my setup (several years ago), six monitors spread across two desktops (two monitors each) and two laptops, all glued together with Synergy for single mouse/keyboard interaction. A bit unwieldy, now I just have three, but sometimes 4 if the laptop is in use on my desk too.
Slacker007 wrote: Question, if you still use one monitor, do you also code in notepad?
I use notepad for notes during coding, but I use notepad++ for editing things like config or PHP files when I don't already have the IDE open and I need to make a quick change.
Personally, I find nothing wrong with just one monitor. There are times I want a change of scene (and less noise from the fans on the desktop) and will spend the whole day working somewhere else in the house on the laptop.
Though, now that I've got my HOPE project set up such that there is a full-screen design surface and a full screen docking UI for the applet itself, it pretty much demands three monitors (the third being the IDE) for development. 
Marc
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