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Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by frobozz » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 9:37 AM UTC

cnu wrote: post #9

HTML/CSS isn't a 'programming' language.

Or is it? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by sharat87 » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 9:41 AM UTC

zengr wrote: post #17

schultzi wrote: post #7

The lack of PHP on that list makes me feel dirty for writing it in.

My apologies. I missed it out by mistake and cannot make changes to the spreadsheet now.

well, as long as everyone puts in the exact string "PHP", it should be fairly easy to mine

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by davidw » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 9:43 AM UTC

zengr wrote: post #13

You can take a look at the Spreadsheet here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0An4bm34gQOpddHhwMm9... And you are most welcome to "mine" it too (please share the results) ;)

It looks like setting 'VIM' as the default has made it quite popular.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by rmccue » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 9:45 AM UTC

atgm wrote: post #2

I would have said Notepad++ until I found Sublime Text 2 ( http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-new-... ) here on HN. A big shout-out to you guys. I completely intend to buy a license when it comes out of Alpha.

Ditto here, it's absolutely fantastic using a well-designed interface (unlike N++, which seems sporadic at best).

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by mduerksen » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 9:47 AM UTC

cnu wrote: post #9

HTML/CSS isn't a 'programming' language.

Yes, they are, even if their style is not imperative but declarative.

AFAIK, there is no formal (canonical) definition of a programming language, but the first sentence of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language pretty much nails it.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by robryan » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:05 AM UTC

atgm wrote: post #2

I would have said Notepad++ until I found Sublime Text 2 ( http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-2-new-... ) here on HN. A big shout-out to you guys. I completely intend to buy a license when it comes out of Alpha.

Yeah I use this fulltime now, at least on the PC, running textmate on my laptop, just been a bit lazy to change over.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by TamDenholm » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:09 AM UTC

Love gedit personally. Does all the basics that i need without a load of crap that i dont want. For those that want the crap there are plugins.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by cborodescu » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:23 AM UTC

schultzi wrote: post #7

The lack of PHP on that list makes me feel dirty for writing it in.

Zend Studio is the best there is when writing PHP code. I wouldn't use Notepad++ or any other editor instead :) Of course ZDE does so much more: http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by dexen » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:36 AM UTC

zengr wrote: post #12

btipling wrote: post #8

C/C++ ? Really? Have you met many engineers who write a lot of C and who also love C++ or vice versa because I sure haven't. I decided not to complete the form after seeing 'C/C++'. Also, this is a flag if it's on a resume that the person may not really know either language.

From a perspective of IDE/editor selection, does this matter?

It does for IDE. A mostly C tool may be extended to work with C++ but it's not a perfect fit [1]. Probably it goes the other way around as well.

When used with inheritance, virtual functions, overloading and templates, C++ is much different semantically than the relatively straightforward C. Thus a different tool is to be preferred.

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[1] that's my experience with the http://cscope.sourceforge.net/

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by gaius » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:38 AM UTC

ActivePython is surely most often edited in Komodo? They are both ActiveState products.