One thing Notepad++ can't do is recognize multiline comments in Lisp files (I am not sure if irneb is referring to this).
Exactly the issue I had with it too. I thought I actually linked to that, must've mixed up some of the copy-pastes.
http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=44804.0As for using emacs/vim and/or formatting manually, yes I do agree with such - to an extent. The trouble usually comes when you copy-paste stuff, as the source indenting may not have been the same as the destination. In VLIDE (if you stick with one of the default formats) it becomes a one-click operation to sort that out. BTW, if anyone's been C#-ing you'd notice the newer VisualStudio (since 2013) actually formats as you type / paste. Strange how MS only got it working that way in the last-but-one release, I've had similar in SharpDevelop and MonoDevelop for a while now.
Personally, I don't mind the editor that much. Actually when programming outside of ACad I tend to use various tools, e.g. nearly all my DotNet stuff is done in MonoDev under Linux, while the rest I use Kate editor for languages such as Python / Haskell. IMO it's more capable and more customizable than N++. Though I'd definitely look at emacs for any sort of Lisp, perhaps Vim as 2nd choice. Definitely possible to use either for nearly all languages, and they do have some ways of even linking to runtimes (i.e. capable to debug nearly anything) - I can't remember just now, but there was some feature which I wanted and was completely impossible in Vim and very difficult in emacs, which was standard in Kate (the reason I'm using that instead).