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Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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C#: Visual Studio 2012, obviously. Java: Eclipse Everything else: Sublime Text 2. Super powerful, customisable, a lot of packages, relatively quick learning curve. What's not to like!

Favourite language...either Javascript or C# at the moment. Not even kidding.

Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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I'm using Aptana, a PHP centric variation of Eclipse.

It's great at matching parenthesis, braces and brckets, provides popup tips on commands and functions (including defined) as you code, can customize syntax highlighting, does some proactive error checking and the file manager is good. Doesn't do upload well.

Used to use Quanta Plus - what I miss from that was the better speed, drag and drop tags (drop an image from your tree into your source - instant img tag.) Better PHP example popups, easier color tag editing, nice preview/WYSIWYG editor pane and decent printout (aptana printing is formatted lousy, and sublime is literally non-existent) And better file transport (pre KDE 4)

Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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I mostly do ASP.NET MVC development, so I use Visual Studio 2010 + 2012 with a bunch of plugins daily. I also bought a bunch of other IDE's on JetBrains' end of of the world sale including Intellij Idea, WebStorm, RubyMine and PyCharm. I have found they are a lot slower than VS 2012. I haven't worked with Eclipse/Netbeans in over a year. Other than that I usually use Notepad++ daily and I really like SublimeText - I'…

"I also bought a bunch of other IDE's on JetBrains' end of of the world sale including Intellij Idea, WebStorm, RubyMine and PyCharm"...RubyMine and PyCharm are IntelliJ plugins, check them out before dropping $$ on the license upgrade.

Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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MacVim, TextWrangler, Xcode on Mac at home.

N++, IntelliJ and Eclipse on Windows and gedit, gvim on Linux at office.

Favourite language: Python (which I am learning). BTW I work with Java and C/C++(little) on Android platform.

Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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IntelliJ, for almost everything...best $50 I ever spent. Seriously, Java, PHP and even my first Rails project. Missing my favorite MVC framework(CI) for PHP though. Wait for the sale.

Are you anticipating a sale soon? I've been eyeing IntelliJ IDEA for a while, but only expect to use it for hobby projects so I'm having a problem justifying the full cost. I do need some of the features in the Ultimate edition to make it worthwhile, too.

Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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Try using Sublime Text. It has really grown with time and the new 3.0 version has a lot of awesome features.. http://www.sublimetext.com/

The best part about sublime text are the small add ons. Also, if you know Python, you can write your own add ons right in the editor console itself.

Favourite Language: C but by profession am a web developer so I mostly deal with JS, CSS3, PHP etc.

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