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Re: Ask HN: Best cross-platform code editor?

#11

Post by Legion »

Gvim/MacVim for me.

I was on the Eclipse wagon for a while. Where Gvim finally clicked with me was (1) when I discovered Pathogen for more easily installing plugins, (2) discovering NERDTree, and (3) when I finally got the idea to use something like github or even Dropbox for storing my .vim folder and my .vimrc/.gvimrc files, and just symlinking them into place on each machine.

Re: Ask HN: Best cross-platform code editor?

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Post by ikitat »

andrix wrote: post #8

Emacs. I've used to to code in Vim/Gvim, but I switched to Emacs just to try and learn about Lisp. Emacs has tons of interesting "plugins" to add, and actually I'm using emacs as my Organizer (using org-mode) too. Emacs hasn't anything to envy to any of those bloated IDE's like Eclipse or VS. I recommend to you: * http://www.emacswiki.org * http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Steve Yegge has a lot of articles about Emac…

I was a long time vim user too. I switched to emacs after witnessing slime and clojure. I can't image life without org-mode anymore.

Re: Ask HN: Best cross-platform code editor?

#13

Post by andrix »

ikitat wrote: post #12
andrix wrote: post #8

Emacs. I've used to to code in Vim/Gvim, but I switched to Emacs just to try and learn about Lisp. Emacs has tons of interesting "plugins" to add, and actually I'm using emacs as my Organizer (using org-mode) too. Emacs hasn't anything to envy to any of those bloated IDE's like Eclipse or VS. I recommend to you: * http://www.emacswiki.org * http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Steve Yegge has a lot of articles about Emac…

I was a long time vim user too. I switched to emacs after witnessing slime and clojure. I can't image life without org-mode anymore.

:) Agree. Org-mode is great! It's extremely simple and the best of all is that save everything into plain text files that you can track with any version control system.

Re: Ask HN: Best cross-platform code editor?

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Post by mhb »

BerislavLopac wrote: post #9

I'm in love with ActiveState Komodo, and it works great on both platforms (and mac as well). I'm not sure if it has macros, but everything else you mentioned is right there. The editor is free, and the IDE version is not too expensive.

From the Komodo help:

Creating Macros

Macros can be created by recording keystroke and command sequences, or written from scratch in JavaScript or Python using the Macro API.

Re: Ask HN: Best cross-platform code editor?

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Post by ScottBurson »

madhouse wrote: post #3

Emacs. While it might look dumb or something from the 80s at first, once you discover its true power, you'll be hooked forever. Using it since the autumn of 2000, never failed me, no matter what crazy thing I wanted it to do.

I've used Emacs for years. In my current job I also have occasion to use IntelliJ IDEA for debugging. It amuses me to note that where Emacs was once derided for being large and slow ("Eight Megabytes And Constant Swapping" was one user's take on it, back when 8MB was a lot), now it is the smaller and faster choice.

Re: Ask HN: Best cross-platform code editor?

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Post by guinness »

A lot of people are recommending you learn emacs. I do too but I want to add that emacs is very hard to learn since it feels so foreign at first so don't get discouraged, take it a little bit at a time.

I used to use vim and tried switching to emacs to see what it was about. On my first try I despised it. After my second, I fell in love and can't stand to use anything else anymore.

ps: Control-x-c is to quit ;-)

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