Ask HN: What code editor do you use? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by rianjs » Tue, May 25, 2010, 3:41 PM UTC

I bought EditPlus (www.editplus.com) way back when I was in high school (NT4 days), and the license is still good for newer versions. I've lost the license twice, don't have the CC or email address it was registered to, and Sangil has been very responsive about getting me my license info even without that stuff.

Since I bought it, they've added code folding, which is really nice. It's really just a plain jane text editor with pluggable syntax highlighting. The ability to save to a remote server is really nice, too, especially if you're doing remote dev work. I just wish it had SFTP support instead of just FTP. Or SCP. Whatever. Something more secure.

It's incredibly fast and lightweight, and I've never felt a need to use anything else.

I've also been known to use jEdit, nedit, and vim, depending on what type of environment I'm working in/through.

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

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Post by aperiodic » Tue, May 25, 2010, 6:29 PM UTC

bilban wrote: post #115

aperiodic wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Can't you just use ctrl-c?

I find it easier to hit ctrl-[, but yeah, ctrl-c does the same thing.

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

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Post by safetytrick » Wed, May 26, 2010, 12:27 AM UTC

mitko wrote: post #35

recently gedit is my favourite. Really fast and easy to setup. Also to move my settings from one computer to another I just need to copy 1 folder and install one package. That, in combination with command line is very powerful for me. I used to use different editor for every language but I am getting more and more comfy with gedit.

I've noticed that gedit is a little sluggish to start and somewhat buggy. All that same it's a great editor.

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

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Post by safetytrick » Wed, May 26, 2010, 12:30 AM UTC

amk wrote: post #125

daeken wrote: post #37

I use http://www.e-texteditor.com/ on Windows. It's a clone of Textmate, supporting its bundles and all that; works very, very well.

big fan of e text editor. I have been desperately trying to compile the new source code releases for ubuntu but not too successful. (Not to familiar with linux programming/building). It works on wine though.

Does it work seamlessly through wine? I've been missing textmate snippets lately but it's frustrating to work around little problems?

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

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Post by safetytrick » Wed, May 26, 2010, 12:35 AM UTC

strait wrote: post #41

On Linux, Geany or SciTE. Both are scriptable with Lua.

SciTE seems really solid but it's missing some features I like in other editors.

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

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Post by safetytrick » Wed, May 26, 2010, 12:41 AM UTC

jarin wrote: post #81

pook wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Open source software has a hard time being opinionated.

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

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Post by giozdemir » Wed, May 26, 2010, 4:00 AM UTC

gedit with gmate (http://github.com/gmate/gmate)

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

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Post by jamie_ca » Wed, May 26, 2010, 12:15 PM UTC

thinkbohemian wrote: post #77

Mac = Textmate Windows = Notepad++ Color me crazy but the majority of "fancy" stuff that most IDE's have is counter productive. Unfortunately i'm still a newb at VI and emacs to truly appreciate either.

Same here - I'm mostly on a mac so I use Textmate (and just gEdit on linux lately), but I can't recall the last time I used a snippet or anything.

Decent editing functionality, syntax highlighting, the concept of opening a project directory (which gEdit doesn't do well), and open file by pattern match is 95% of my use cases.

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

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Post by jmulder » Wed, May 26, 2010, 1:41 PM UTC

Doing primarily CSS, HTML or Javascript in my editor, my requirements are less about code navigation and more about just being quick and simple.

On OSX I use TextMate, but on Windows I use Intype -- www.intype.info

Intype is a very, very useful text editor similar to TextMate in that it supports three key points:

1. Bundles / snippets 2. Intelligent selections and editing (multiple, rectangle, etc.) 3. Fuzzy search in quick open

Anyone using TextMate knows how important bundles are to one's work flow.

By far the biggest downside of Intype is its pace of development. It's incredibly slow and right now the best version they have is an 'unstable' release: http://intype.info/download/download.php?intype-0.3.1.734.ex...

It's still a very basic editor. As such, they're looking really good project management tools, file watching (refresh on external changes), integration with source control systems, etc.

They have been working on 0.3.5 for such a long time and I doubt we'll see a release of it before the end of the year. Nonetheless, the upsides outdo the downsides by far for me personally.

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

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Post by bilban » Wed, May 26, 2010, 2:44 PM UTC

aperiodic wrote: post #132

bilban wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't you just use ctrl-c?

I find it easier to hit ctrl-[, but yeah, ctrl-c does the same thing.

depends where that C is I guess, the Sholes (qwerty) placement of the [ might strain ones pinky! There is something satisfying about banging the escape key hard.