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Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by dexen » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:43 AM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #20

The greybeards all say "unix is an ide". I think I first heard that from Tom Christiansen when he was heavily involved in the Perl community back in the mid '90s. Even today, some of the most productive programmers I know only use X/Gnome/KDE(/OSX) as a means of organising terminals on modern hardware.

Unix was taken one step further with Plan 9. On P9, the two common editors are Sam [1] and Acme [2]. While not IDEs per se, Acme yields very well to scripting. A bunch of scripts tailored to the current project really makes my day.

Acme has that neat feature of interpreting text as potential hypertext -- each of several addressing formats [3], when clicked, opens indicated file or resource, at the indicated point. Click on compiler error message and you get there. Prepare a command, click on it and you execute it. Etc., etc.

Also, unlike the mainstream IDEs and editors, those two work surprisingly well over network.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

[3] implemented via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumber_(program)

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by blub » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:43 AM UTC

zengr wrote: post #12

btipling wrote: post #8

C/C++ ? Really? Have you met many engineers who write a lot of C and who also love C++ or vice versa because I sure haven't. I decided not to complete the form after seeing 'C/C++'. Also, this is a flag if it's on a resume that the person may not really know either language.

From a perspective of IDE/editor selection, does this matter?

A C IDE is barely usable with C++.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by dools » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:44 AM UTC

sharat87 wrote: post #22

zengr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My apologies. I missed it out by mistake and cannot make changes to the spreadsheet now.

well, as long as everyone puts in the exact string "PHP", it should be fairly easy to mine

I wrote "PHP bitches" since I found the exclusion of PHP to be rather rude indeed.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by jasonkester » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:45 AM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #20

The greybeards all say "unix is an ide". I think I first heard that from Tom Christiansen when he was heavily involved in the Perl community back in the mid '90s. Even today, some of the most productive programmers I know only use X/Gnome/KDE(/OSX) as a means of organising terminals on modern hardware.

That's probably because they're mistaken as to what an IDE is.

In my mind, if it's not background compiling your code as you type, it's not an IDE in the modern sense.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by wladimir » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:47 AM UTC

TamDenholm wrote: post #27

Love gedit personally. Does all the basics that i need without a load of crap that i dont want. For those that want the crap there are plugins.

I agree that gedit is a very nice and light editor for code.

The only feature I really miss in gedit is "Replace in selection". I use this many times in refactoring code. There have been many requests for it but the developers are refusing to add this basic feature.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by tehjones » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:49 AM UTC

Why combine c and c++ together. If you are using mostly C with some C++, you are really using C++. If you are using C++, well you are using C++.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by albertzeyer » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:50 AM UTC

Xcode is also quite handy as a simple text editor. I have linked all my txt/py/sh/js files to be opened with Xcode. For most languages it has some syntax highlighting support and it always has some semi intelligent autocompletion.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by xyzzyz » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 10:53 AM UTC

Emacs is more an IDE than text editor, though it may not look like one at the first glance. Maybe if it had more windows opened by default...

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by wisty » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 11:09 AM UTC

jasonkester wrote: post #34

bigiain wrote: post #20

The greybeards all say "unix is an ide". I think I first heard that from Tom Christiansen when he was heavily involved in the Perl community back in the mid '90s. Even today, some of the most productive programmers I know only use X/Gnome/KDE(/OSX) as a means of organising terminals on modern hardware.

That's probably because they're mistaken as to what an IDE is. In my mind, if it's not background compiling your code as you type, it's not an IDE in the modern sense.

inotify? You can get the OS to respond to filesystem events, for example, compiling as you type.

Scripting languages don't need this though.

Re: What's your favorite text editor/IDE?

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Post by rnadna » Mon, Mar 21, 2011, 11:18 AM UTC

goo wrote: post #16

zengr wrote: post #13

You can take a look at the Spreadsheet here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0An4bm34gQOpddHhwMm9... And you are most welcome to "mine" it too (please share the results) ;)

Watching the live results is very entertaining. It's also the first time I've cared about the built-in chatroom on google docs.

You're right about the live results being entertaining. Possible google docs has something to contribute, after all. Not that I'd be able to use it in most of my work, because off-site storage has legal implications, where I live.