Under Linux we use UltraEdit for Fortran development. It has syntax colouring, supports large number of open files and has all of the usual editing facilities including column format. But it crashes. Mean time between failures is about 3 hours and the crashes are not recoverable. Can anyone reco…

Will any of these editors understand either type-bound or object-bound procedures well enough to provide “goto definition”?

Geany and Emacs do, though the latter is going to need a TAGS file.

Google is being mean. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: [screenshot]

Could be worse. Could have said Do you mean Notepad+ :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

[image] NormanKirkby: Will any of these editors understand either type-bound or object-bound procedures well enough to provide “goto definition”? With VSCode I manage to do that, here a screen shot on the json-fortran library by @jacobwilliams [image] The “Go to Implementations” takes me t…

Wow! Is that your own plug-in? Or a feature of the modern fortran plug-in? Thanks for sharing, perhaps it really is time for me to move on from edlin?

No, that’s with the standard setup using the Modern Fortran plug-in and fortls. I did nothing special.

First, a thank you to all who have contributed to this thread. I have installed and experimented with most of the suggestions. My resulting impressions are: vi/vim: All linux/unix users probably know how to use these. They have one fatal flaw. You have to remember whether you are in command ma…

[image] Jcollins: They have one fatal flaw. You have to remember whether you are in command made or insert mode. You can see the mode you are in on the lower-left: [image] So you don’t have to remember.

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With VSCode I manage to do that, here a screen shot on the json-fortran library by @jacobwilliams

The “Go to Implementations” takes me to the subroutine, and I can also do “Peek” to open a quick window in the current context:

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