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 davidedicillo » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:05 AM UTC

Coda, but I am just a designer/front-end guy, so I don't count

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

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Post by keefe » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:06 AM UTC

eclipse. Why? Default for java. Some pluses... nice plugin based architecture, stable code. Autocomplete, refactoring, source code generation, etc. are not optional things when you're trying to do too much all the time. It's nice working in something that is pretty standard and offers you the ability to share styles etc.

Downsides.. IDE-ification of development. Slow startup time (wants SSD hybrid drive for this). Synchronizing plugin versions can be a pain in the ass. Fairly steep learning curve to advanced features.

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

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Post by onceuponkauai » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:08 AM UTC

I use netbeans because it is on parity of sucking as bad as zend studio but it is free. I really like the "intellisense" as i went from C# asp.net stuff to php

i really want to give jetbrains my money but they haven't put out anything for me...yet :)

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

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Post by astrec » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:09 AM UTC

IntelliJ IDEA for clojure and groovy. TextMate for everything else.

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

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Post by proee » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:11 AM UTC

jEdit is my third arm. Hypersearch is amazing and the beanshell rules.

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

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Post by alain94040 » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:11 AM UTC

vi, Xcode, Xemacs, Eclipse, textedit. That's a good start. Depends on what is handy. emacs wins for super-large files (>1GB).

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

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Post by bwr » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:12 AM UTC

pook wrote: post #13

DanielStraight wrote: post #8

Sublime Text. It has the minimap. It has multiple cursors. It has macros. It has plugins. It has color schemes. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's actively developed. It's affordable. Downsides? It's Windows only.

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.

MiniMap is an interesting feature. I'm a VIM user and it looks like we don't have it.

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

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Post by mbenjaminsmith » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:15 AM UTC

cowmixtoo wrote: post #20

Komodo Edit works well on all platforms and support 'scp' for file access.

Komodo Edit (Mac) with the Vim bindings turned on. It's lightweight with some advanced features like code completion and basic project management (find & replace in project, etc).

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

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Post by pook » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:16 AM UTC

bwr wrote: post #27

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.

MiniMap is an interesting feature. I'm a VIM user and it looks like we don't have it.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2888

You guys have it too.

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

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Post by technikhil » Tue, May 25, 2010, 4:19 AM UTC

At work I use various flavors of Visual Studio (including VS.NET 2003 on Windows 7 http://technikhil.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/visual-studio-200...). For any quick editing and especially text manipulation it's notepad++ or emacs. I am trying to learn emacs but I am still not completely there yet - I use it for text editing mostly with some python editing.