scite (Score 1)

i've just gone back to school for a bit and the instructors at the college got us started using scite for java (works for any language).

it has the advantage of looking and acting like a basic text editor, but is highly manipulable using text based configuration files

so you can set it up to do a build or make directly from the menu, but in order to edit the config file you have to know how to do it on the command line properly