What's your favorite text editor/IDE? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by matt2224 » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 12:13 PM UTC

HASKELLERS, UNITE

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

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Post by bnegreve » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 12:13 PM UTC

wladimir wrote: post #18

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.

Or someone that puts it on his resume could know both languages in depth, but wants to save space. There are many ways of discovering whether someone has proficiency in languages, but this sounds like a really crappy indicator.

I deeply know C and C++. In my resume I'd rather remove my name than writing that I know C/C++.

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

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Post by dr_ » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 12:26 PM UTC

Been using Wingwares python IDE. Not bad.

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

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Post by xutopia » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 12:37 PM UTC

I'm always using Textmate but I envy those who were able to suffer through the pain of the vim learning curve.

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

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Post by nemoniac » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 12:40 PM UTC

calibraxis wrote: post #50

xyzzyz wrote: post #38

Emacs is more an IDE than text editor, though it may not look like one at the first glance. Maybe if it had more windows opened by default...

Yeah, I think there's a spectrum of emacs use, between text editor and IDE (or OS). For a while, I just used it as a handy text editor, and I wouldn't say emacs was an IDE for me then. Now I: - installed autocomplete (with drop-down lists and tooltips) - org-mode is the first daily planner to impact my life - run lint by hitting a button, linked to sourcecode lines - use REPLs - integrate different features naturally…

gnus FTW

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

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Post by mgrouchy » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 12:49 PM UTC

I'm a Vim guy, been using Vim for the better part of the last 8 years, kept trying other stuff and ended up back at Vim every time. Figure I will just stick with it this time :)

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

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Post by nikuda » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 1:05 PM UTC

dexen wrote: post #31

bigiain wrote: post #20

The greybeards all say "unix is an ide". I think I first heard that from Tom Christiansen when he was heavily involved in the Perl community back in the mid '90s. Even today, some of the most productive programmers I know only use X/Gnome/KDE(/OSX) as a means of organising terminals on modern hardware.

Unix was taken one step further with Plan 9. On P9, the two common editors are Sam [1] and Acme [2]. While not IDEs per se, Acme yields very well to scripting. A bunch of scripts tailored to the current project really makes my day. Acme has that neat feature of interpreting text as potential hypertext -- each of several addressing formats [3], when clicked, opens indicated file or resource, at the indicated point. Cl…

What is the latest news with Plan 9? I thought the development stopped?

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

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Post by aufreak3 » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 1:34 PM UTC

Damn! Can't type ω with option-03C9 even with the unicode hex input turned on in macosx! Hope CΩ satisfies them :)

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

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Post by jcw » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 1:35 PM UTC

jasonkester wrote: post #42

wisty wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

inotify? You can get the OS to respond to filesystem events, for example, compiling as you type. Scripting languages don't need this though.

Scripting languages don't need this though. Did you miss the reason why we're compiling while you type? It's so that our IDE knows your codebase and can help you. It'll autosuggest things based on context rather than simply matching strings. It'll inspect your object model and stick in the right include directives for you. It'll let you rename things without having to search&replace&hope. So yes, scripting languages…

I'm surprised no one has suggested a vim or emacs plugin that does this yet. Anyone?

I don't think this would be too difficult to write in vim, which has built-in auto-complete functions.

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

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Post by johncoltrane » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 1:51 PM UTC

Surprisingly nice layout.

I've started with DreamWeaver in 98 or so. Around 2000 I started to jump from one editor/IDE to the other until I settled with TextMate in 2006 or 2007. 5 months ago I commited to attack Vim's legendary learning curve. Now I'm almost as productive as I was with TextMate and I LOVE Vim.

Lately I've dutifuly downloaded and tested the latest "advanced editors" for Mac (Coda and Espresso) and found them totally useless: less useful features than TextMate (which they aim to replace thanks to the delay of TM2), too much focus on style… Pouah!