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.
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Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
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Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#92I develop on WAMP: Windows 7, Python/Django, Apache, Postgres.
For editing code I use e. It's great. It does hang on large files, however.
I spend the vast majority of my time inside of the iPython command line, and when I finally work out what I'm trying to do, copying the result back in to the text file in e.
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#93I 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.…
I accidentally used Vim the other day. I noticed Vim now has Emacs keybindings -- C-n goes to the next line, C-p goes to the previous line, etc. For a second, I thought that C-x C-s was going to save my file and I was going to be able to exit with C-x C-c. Nope. I had to make the journey over to the ESC key. So close...
You can use ZZ to save and close a document in Vim :)
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#94Mac = 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.
Yeah I'm mostly still a visual/ mouse based guy using Textmate and Notepad++. Used some vim at uni but defiantly didn't get into it enough to learn to navigate code properly just from the keyboard.
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#95Eclipse 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 an…
Any overriding reason why it was ignored? In terms of doing .NET development at least, if you were including that.
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#96Vim is like a virus that plants itself directly into your brain. Using it has crippled my ability to use "normal" text editors. No longer am I satisfied with default application navigation controls. I can't use a browser without Vimperator installed. How can this madness be stopped!?
it's not madness. humans are capable of so much if we put a bit devotion into it (e.g. hard-waring finger movement X with vim procedure Y, or even touch typing)
this makes me wondering the limit of human interfaces. how far can we transform into cyborgs through just "practicing"?
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#97Vim is like a virus that plants itself directly into your brain. Using it has crippled my ability to use "normal" text editors. No longer am I satisfied with default application navigation controls. I can't use a browser without Vimperator installed. How can this madness be stopped!?
There is no way, just give in! Soon you will be sitting in Awesome or xmonad or wmii, using vimperator for browsing and vim for everything else ;)
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#98I do most of my coding at work (rails, python, ruby, js, html, css), where we have ubuntu machines - I LOVE gedit and simply can't do without it. It has a powerful plugins system, and there's a good repo at github.com/lexrupy/gmate that contains some of the best. There's a port for it on a mac, but I tend to stick to TextMate when on OSX (my home computer).
Some of my can't-do-without features are: delete line, duplicate line, shift-line (up/down), select word, multi-edit (on gedit), word complete (circle through options bash style) and snippets. If I had to pick between gedit and TextMate, I'd probably go with gedit, but only because I spend a lot more time on it on a daily basis. I'm sure if I had TM at work, I'd probably understand what all the hype is about.. :)
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#99I've been using vim for about ten years now. A few of my favorite things about the editor: it features the best application navigation that I've ever been exposed to (I also use vi-like navigation in readline, Firefox and mutt); it can open large files without breaking a sweat; it has a great many useful features for quickly modifying text (q, =, gq, cit, ci(, ci' etc) -- something I spend about 50 % of my time at work doing; it's almost always available, I merely download my settings and it feels like home; it features a great ui and I love how close the editor lives to the shell.
The only thing I do not like about vim is that auto-indentation and syntax highlighting feel a bit "shaky". I find many of the editors mentioned here more consistent in that regard.
Re: Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
#100I always hesitate to post on these types of questions: everyone seems to be Java, Ruby, Python, etc and I feel like the Microsoft stack outcast! Visual Studio 2010 at home and 2008 at work. We're primarily .NET so the two just kind of go hand in hand. I'm also spoiled by intellisense. I also use Eclipse at work since we've been doing a lot with GWT on the client side (thought still using .NET on the backend). Finally…
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.