I use gvim whenever possible and vim otherwise.
Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
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Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#72Eclipse is a terrible editor (200 million cycles per keystroke isn't enough to keep up!?) but a good Java browser with svn support (which we haven't migrated off of quite yet), so I mostly live in that. Someday I hope to work on a codebase that's DRY and clean enough that I can go back to Emacs.
I don't understand all the love for Visual Studio. Everyone I met a few years back at Microsoft ignored it and used gvim and their own make clone, in spite of devdiv's pleas for feedback.
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#73> I've used Emacs in the past, but something about the way in which you can navigate code just makes me feel less than efficient in it. Have you ever tried IDO, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings ?
IDO is 100% necessary for decent code navigation in emacs, but it's also worth trying textmate.el (http://github.com/defunkt/textmate.el), PeepOpen (http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen), or my fuzzy-find-in-project (http://github.com/justinweiss/fuzzy-find-in-project) for something like, but more flexible than, TextMate's command-T functionality.
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#74Komodo Edit works well on all platforms and support 'scp' for file access.
After a long stint with Vim (and a brief one with eclipse), I too have been using Komodo Edit.
The vim bindings are good. The app is OS X is fine. (Though I had to hack the source to make the "Go To file" not look in the history, which was bothering me with my many branches). Also removed anti-aliasing, which is awful for code IMHO.
It crashes from time to time, but I think it's the best all around choice right now for good vi bindings, sensible auto-completion, multi-language support, etc.
Plus I like that it's cross-browser and open source, in case I ever want to leave OS X for something better.
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#75IDEA, emacs (various types), vim, vi if on a server.
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#76emacs. first job out of college, got put on a team that used emacs, so i learned emacs.
things i love: non-modal interface (used vim in college, found myself frequently cursing its modes: "do what i think, not what i type!"); lives on every system i work on; does not require smelling salts after encounters with large files; insanely flexible and powerful
things i hate: insanely flexible and powerful (i.e., large investment required to capitalize on flexibility and power); i'm not a pianist (abundance of control and alt prefixes to key commands make rachmaninov cry from his grave); this is 2010 -- where is my anti-aliasing, dammit; after a year, i still have regular arguments with tabs/spaces/indentation
to address your concern about navigating code efficiently, i sympathize. i felt that way when i started out (even after realizing i could select text with my mouse), but i'm in a phase where i spend more time thinking about writing code than actually writing it, so i worry less about how fast i can copy and paste an awkward selection from one file to another than i do about how well my editor fits with my work environment and personal habits.
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#77Mac = 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.
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#78The editor I chose x years ago for no reason is way better than the editor you chose y years ago for no reason.
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#79Coda, but I am just a designer/front-end guy, so I don't count
The Coda editor is actually just a version of SubEthaEdit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coda_(web_development_software)...
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#80Writing plug-ins for Eclipse is only possible using Eclipse itself. But I use it for other Java projects as well. What I like: code assist, quick fix, code generation, refactoring, code navigation. The only thing I dislike is buggy SVN integration plug-ins :)