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Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by greggraham »

alrex021 wrote: post #14

Aquamacs (Emacs for Mac) http://aquamacs.org/

I use aquamacs at home on my Macintosh, and GNU emacs on Windows XP at work. I have switched back and forth between emacs and vi/vim over the last 25 years because they are both great editors and have various advantages and disadvantages. I had been using vim back when I was using Ubuntu at home because the fonts looked better on vim than on emacs. Now that I have a Macintosh and can run aquamacs, I switched back to the emacs world. I admit I'm a sucker for pretty text.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by _sh »

mdasen wrote: post #23

I'm a fan of NetBeans. It isn't for everyone. Sometimes one wants something lightweight. However, NetBeans has a lot of nice things. Refactoring helpers are wonderful. They make it so much easier to change the name of something when its meaning changes so that the code stays clean. Like many visual editors (rather than command line things like vim), it can do tabs and show a tree of files on the left pane. It support…

I spent an afternoon wandering around the NetBeans profiler and have not opened Eclipse since. It has spoiled me.

http://www.netbeans.org/features/java/profiler.html

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by Sapient »

AdamGibbins wrote: post #78
Sapient wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the Windows clone, e-Texteditor. Macs are far too expensive in Africa...

Macs are overpriced everywhere Sapient, I don't think its specific to Africa ;-)

Good point, maybe we just have less money in Africa :D

A Macbook Pro is currently going for around $3500(USD), so its really hard for me to convince myself its worth it.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by nollidge »

camflan wrote: post #3

vim

Is there a "learn you a vim" or "poignant guide to vim" out there? Because the handful of times I tried vi/vim I got some stuff done, but didn't really grok it.

This goes for Emacs, too. I get the feeling I've never really used these tools the way they're meant to be used.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by roryokane »

Sapient wrote: post #94
AdamGibbins wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Macs are overpriced everywhere Sapient, I don't think its specific to Africa ;-)

Good point, maybe we just have less money in Africa :D A Macbook Pro is currently going for around $3500(USD), so its really hard for me to convince myself its worth it.

Whoah, that's definitely not the price everywhere in the world. I guess they really are expensive in your country. (I wouldn't quite generalize to Africa – I live in Africa, too, and I don't think Macs are that expensive here.)

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by andrewl »

th0ma5 wrote: post #26

jedit

I used jEdit for a long time. It's an excellent editor, but I left it behind for Vim. I had to spend a lot of time on remote machines and I needed something with a console mode.

It's my impression that it was orphaned. Is it still under active development? I'd like it to keep going.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by Sapient »

roryokane wrote: post #96
Sapient wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point, maybe we just have less money in Africa :D A Macbook Pro is currently going for around $3500(USD), so its really hard for me to convince myself its worth it.

Whoah, that's definitely not the price everywhere in the world. I guess they really are expensive in your country. (I wouldn't quite generalize to Africa – I live in Africa, too, and I don't think Macs are that expensive here.)

South Africa, though to be honest, that is for the 17" version.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by jimbokun »

baddox wrote: post #39
johndoe77 wrote: post #19

Eclipse

For Java, yes.

For a good while, I stubbornly stuck to Emacs for Java coding over Eclipse. I managed to hack together some Emacs-lisp to make it work OK. Occasionally I had to use Eclipse for one reason or another, but only grudgingly.

What won me over is the excellent refactoring support. That is definitely something that I was not going to be able to hack together with some Emacs-lisp. It just makes sense that rename, extract variable, extract method, etc. are atomic operations.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by jimbokun »

yangyang wrote: post #51
alrex021 wrote: post #14

Aquamacs (Emacs for Mac) http://aquamacs.org/

I really didn't get on with aquamacs. It'll do your head in if you use emacs on other platforms. You can use other emacs builds on mac OS. I use Carbon Emacs. Emacs 23 has a native cocoa build now.

It's great, though, if you are used to Mac applications and learning Emacs for the first time. Kind of like training wheels for Emacs.
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