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Re: Ask HN: Best cross-platform code editor?

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After years of using fancy 'modern' IDEs, I've gone to using Vim. (GVim/MacVim, actually.) I haven't found any features they lack that other IDEs have... And I suspect if I found one, I could code it up myself, if nobody else did it.

visual c++ debugging ? it has this?

For vim there are some plugins, but it's probably not that mature. Emacs has good integration with gdb.

Re: Ask HN: Best cross-platform code editor?

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Emacs. I've used to to code in Vim/Gvim, but I switched to Emacs just to try and learn about Lisp. Emacs has tons of interesting "plugins" to add, and actually I'm using emacs as my Organizer (using org-mode) too. Emacs hasn't anything to envy to any of those bloated IDE's like Eclipse or VS. I recommend to you: * http://www.emacswiki.org * http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ Steve Yegge has a lot of articles about Emac…

I was a long time vim user too. I switched to emacs after witnessing slime and clojure. I can't image life without org-mode anymore.

I have something similar for Vim. Plain textfiles under svn are a great organization tool. Need to try orgmode sometime so I can copy its features :)
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