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Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by roel_v »

andrewl wrote: post #36

I used to use jEdit, which is still a very nice editor. And it ran on Mac/Unix/Windows, which was good because I moved among all three systems. But the last I looked (three or four years ago) development had stalled. And I got into a job where I periodically had to SSH to various Solaris boxes and edit on the console, in Vim. I knew just enough Vim to edit config files and simple shell scripts without too much pain.…

If you're using Outlook, try http://www.viemu.com/ to get Vi command in Visual Studio, Word and Outlook.

Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by wooUK »

henrikschroder wrote: post #102
henrikschroder wrote: post #100

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If you like Eclipse and miss some of its features in Visual Studio I can really recommend Studio Tools: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx I used to run Resharper when I used Visual Studio 2005, but with 2008 there's much less need for it.

There's one thing I lack for Visual Studio though, and that is the ability to highlight a searchterm in a file. Anyone knows of a simple way of getting that?

Have you looked at ReSharper? It does usage highlighting (http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/features/navigation_searc...) The extra functionality it adds to VS 2008 & 2010 is really useful. I started using it about a month ago and kicking myself I didn't invest in it ealier.

Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by geedee77 »

mixmax wrote: post #6

Notepad++ because it's relatively simple and gets the job done. I like unbloated minimalism.

I use Notepad++ as well most of the time for this exact reason. It's minimalist enough but still has useful features such as colouring keywords which I miss when I use just notepad.

Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by roel_v »

henrikschroder wrote: post #102
henrikschroder wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you like Eclipse and miss some of its features in Visual Studio I can really recommend Studio Tools: http://submain.com/products/studiotools.aspx I used to run Resharper when I used Visual Studio 2005, but with 2008 there's much less need for it.

There's one thing I lack for Visual Studio though, and that is the ability to highlight a searchterm in a file. Anyone knows of a simple way of getting that?

It's not a 'simple' way, but I use viemu in Visual STudio, where you can search for things in the vi way: you position your cursor on a word, press * and it will search for the next occurrence of that word, and highlight all matches. # does the same but backwards. So viemu gives you highlighting of search terms, in Visual Studio from 2003 onwards.

It also has vi-style regex searches, and it also highlights matches in that search mode.

Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by bilban »

aperiodic wrote: post #109
mapleoin wrote: post #105

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I think you're supposed to map Caps to be an ESC key in vim, just like most people who use emacs map it to be an extra Ctrl.

No, you map it to Ctrl, and use Ctrl-[ instead of Esc.

Can't you just use ctrl-c?

Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by bilban »

jarin wrote: post #87

I use TextMate for most things, Espresso for working on HTML mailers and (some) static sites, XCode for iPhone/iPad, and Eclipse for my most hated projects (Adobe Flex/AIR mostly. I don't hate Flex, I just hate Eclipse). I use Inconsolata font at 14pt and a modified Monokai theme (with darker background) whenever possible. About once a year or so I decide I'm going to switch to vim. I spend about a week getting my vi…

Maybe you just need to bin the mouse for a week. That is the thing that gets in the way for me, and when it's present, I start using the damn thing. The one thing it feels good for is copy and paste, a necessity when copying outside vim.

Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by bilban »

mx12 wrote: post #48

Eclispe for java. I could not imagine writing java without an IDE. TextWrangler/BBEdit, for most other files. I like the built in support for sftp, so I can work remotely in a gui. For the quick edits from the command line I use the old standby, vi.

I'm not a Java programmer, why do you say this?

Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by nailer »

jarin wrote: post #81
pook wrote: post #13

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http://www.sublimetext.com/features This looks like a great editor. It's proprietary, though. Damn. Why is it that, as with Opera, every now and then you find an amazing program which, even more amazingly, is closed-source? Emacs, however, offers minimap as well: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MiniMap I wonder how well we did compared to Sublime.

These days, I'm actually more amazed when I find an amazing desktop program which is open-source. Maybe it's just because opinionated software appeals to me.

http://redcareditor.com/ looks as if it will be decent. But yes, I agree.

Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?

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Post by _delirium »

tjpick wrote: post #5
eob wrote: post #4

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Thanks for the links. I don't mean to start a holy war, though they are fun :) I'm looking more for a reasoned discussion of the pros and cons of different editing environments.

> though they are fun not the fifty thousandth time.

Boring for people who've already had the debate a hundred times, I agree, but I think it's not totally bad that some kinds of debates recur, as new people who haven't really participated in the debate before arrive somewhere. There's a sense in which debating an issue yourself, against someone else who's genuinely debating it, gets to understanding in a different way than just reading a writeup of a debate some other people had ten years ago.
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