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Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by mkeblx »

Notepad. It's a simple, feature-rich, light-weight editor. The learning curve is long and steep though, but well worth it. I've been using if for 3 years now and still don't know all it's bells and whistles. Best of all it comes preinstalled on a lot of OSs so you don't have to go through a laborious install process.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by shawnjgoff »

th0ma5 wrote: post #26

jedit

Jedit is amazing. It's like the Firefox of text editors - not the smallest or fastest, not the biggest or slowest, but reasonably quick and very very extensible. I would say that other tools (vi and especially emacs) are also very extensible, but Jedit has no learning curve and fits in well with Windows.

That said, I'm slowly becoming more efficient in vi and it will eventually overtake Jedit for myself.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by jacquesm »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #24
camflan wrote: post #3

vim

another +1, but you need to learn to use it properly. Tags, windows, changing files, external commands, macros, etc. It's not user friendly, in fact it's downright user hostile, but it's powerful, and written for hackers.

You're very right. I've been using it for years and I still haven't gotten around to 'properly' learning vim.

It's not exactly laziness, it's more that I got really spoilt at some point in the past by writing my own editor, but maintaining and porting it to new platforms as well as lots of work on customer machines has made it infeasible to keep the project going.

So, I use vim. But at the bare minimum level, I really should go and do something about that.

Thanks for the prod!

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by jacquesm »

Legion wrote: post #33
johndoe77 wrote: post #19

Eclipse

I have come to really appreciate Eclipse. It's come a long way since the first time I tried to use it. Eclipse, plus vim in a terminal window, take care of all of my editing needs.

Eclipse (and intellij) are both resource hogs though.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by Legion »

lewro wrote: post #5

Coda on MAC is great.

Coda drives me nuts just because it is Mac (not "MAC") only. I bounce from machine to machine, and I hate it when a tool I like on one machine is simply absent on the next.

I know Panic is all about Mac software, but I wish they would find a way to get apps like Coda up and running on other platforms.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by jdp »

Lately I've been using Textadept - http://caladbolg.net/luadoc/textadept2/manual/1_Introduction... - and I like it a lot. It's a lot like vi in that most menu items have a key sequence, you can split buffers, but everything is in GTK. It's also 100% extensible through Lua, the only drawback is that there aren't many themes and theming it yourself could be a little smoother.
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