First of all let me state, I'm just a novice programmer and work on a very part-time basis on some programming projects. With that said, I was able to try out the slickedit software a few months ago and very much pleased by it. Getting it installed and getting started overall was fairly straightforward. Tutorials for use were well explained and editing features very useful. Customizing the appearance of your programation code was a great tool.

Syntax coloring, lightweight and fast, supported under Linux, very configurable, very good indexing.

It has an excellent ability to manage large code bases, allowing me to easily jump around between intertwined C++ files efficiently.