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

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> i still have regular arguments with tabs/spaces/indentation Clearly, you should end your files with ".py". > navigating code efficiently Use xcscope, if your language is supported. Obvious, and you've probably tried it (and now, probably don't care), but worth mention, for others at least.

What if his files end with ".hs"?

I still don't fully understand haskell's whitespace usage. :-/

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

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I 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, dupli…

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

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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?

I didn't use it for a long time. It works, but it still needs cygwin to be install for some snippets. That's a little ironic. installing cygwin on wine.. but I guess that's the only way to get a text-mate like editor on linux.

Or you could try something called Red Car Editor (http://redcareditor.com) which proclaims to be an editor specially made for ruby/rails programmers. It looks pretty impressive, but again I couldn't get it installed properly. (I think the latest version runs on jRuby platform)

EDIT: I got inspired to try Red Car again after posting this comment. Uninstalled Ruby completely from Windows 7, installed jRUby 1.5. Red car gem installation went perfectly, but the editor is shockingly slow and unresponsive. I don't know if the same applies to linux platform, or if there is something wrong with my system (its a 2 year old laptop, and its been a long while since I have reinstalled the Windows OS)

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

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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 :)

I thought that sequence showed me an interactive listing of processes.
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