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What's your favorite editor to hack with?
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Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#2I love TextMate on the Mac. Personally I think it's the best thing since sliced bread :)
The only problem is that it's not cross platform and it's not available when you're connecting over SSH into a server to fix some problems. I use Vi most of the time to just edit configuration files, etc, but I found it lacks the power I need for doing serious hacking (for all the vi lovers out there, I'm willing to admit this is due to my ignorance).
I'm re-trying to learn Emacs to do some Erlang hacking but I've always been turned off the by the relatively cryptic key combinations.
Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#3Lately I've been using Komodo edit from ActiveState, for a few reasons: It's free (but not open source), cross-platform, optional vi (or emacs) key bindings, built-in FTP support, cool "toolbox" feature, code completion for a few scripting languages...
And it is based on the Mozilla platform, so it has extensions just like Mozilla products.
Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#4I love TextMate on the Mac. Personally I think it's the best thing since sliced bread :) The only problem is that it's not cross platform and it's not available when you're connecting over SSH into a server to fix some problems. I use Vi most of the time to just edit configuration files, etc, but I found it lacks the power I need for doing serious hacking (for all the vi lovers out there, I'm willing to admit this is…
Why regular Vi and not Vim?
Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#5I love TextMate on the Mac. Personally I think it's the best thing since sliced bread :) The only problem is that it's not cross platform and it's not available when you're connecting over SSH into a server to fix some problems. I use Vi most of the time to just edit configuration files, etc, but I found it lacks the power I need for doing serious hacking (for all the vi lovers out there, I'm willing to admit this is…
Why regular Vi and not Vim?
You are right, I actually use Vim not Vi, I don't like Vi much as it doesn't seem to like certain things, like key movements in insert mode.
Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#6I've been using 'e' a bit. It's supposed to be the Textmate equivalent on Windows:
Intype is another editor that's trying to bring Textmate to Windows, but it's not as polished as 'e':
Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#7I was following intype from the beginning (because of the snippet functionality to tell you the truth) but while a usable version didn't came along i had to learn another one, so i went with emacs... if was love at 42th sight.
Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#8vim, obviously.
Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#9vim, obviously.
Bah! Visual editors are so new-school.
You should use ex :)
Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?
#10Vim.
At work, it's Visual Studio 2005 + ViEmu + Visual Assist.