In Februari 2011, we asked the visitors of this website about their favorite VHDL editor or Verilog editor. The result is that Emacs is uncontested at number one with 30% of the votes, followed by Notepad++ and VI with each about 15% of the votes. Learn more about the Emacs and its VHDL mode.

| Editor | Votes |
|---|---|
| Emacs and friends | 31 % |
| Notepad++ | 15 % |
| VI and friends | 15 % |
| Xilinx ISE editor | 7 % |
| UltraEdit | 6 % |
| Quartus editor | 4 % |
| Eclipse Based | 4 % |
| Nedit | 3 % |
| ModelSim editor | 2 % |
| others | 13 % |