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Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

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Re: Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

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Post by trevoristall »

sshine wrote: post #49
agentwiggles wrote: post #18

VSCode, with Vim emulation. I almost never want for Vim stuff that doesn't exist in the Code plugin. I generally am happy with Code's autocomplete and plugin ecosystem. Really feels like the best of both worlds to me.

Couldn’t get used to it. I’ve used Vi, Vim and Doom Emacs extensively, but VSCode is just so mousey... maybe I should try again.

Coming from a similar background I found that it was super helpful to create my own keybinds for stuff like navigating forward/backward through tabs, toggling the sidebar etc. Before I did that I felt similarly that it was too mouse dependent.

The VSCode Vim extension has a `gh` key sequence for showing the hover info you normally have to use the mouse for that made switching much easier.

Re: Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

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Post by gaganyaan »

Doom Emacs. It's pretty straightforward to get started with out of the box, has good LSP integration, and I don't have to worry about any rug pulling down the road like when Microsoft abandoned their Python LSP server.

Jetbrains IDEs are pretty good, but PyCharm is pretty heavyweight when you've got a bunch of small Python repos, each with their own LSP server going. Maybe it's gotten better in the past few years though.

Re: Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

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Post by vermaden »

The vi(1) and vim(1) but also Geany which is very small/light and very powerful.

I love its block copying/pasting/typing and also that you can 'pass' any block of selected text into external command and it will be pasted back into that file you selected it after being parsed by it.

For example you can send that block of text info sort -n or tr ' ' '\n' command ... or into column -t to make it format well.

This also makes Geany a great editor/IDE for taking notes/documentation etc.

I tried to use ZIM for that but you can not even disable word wrapping so its maybe useful for some 'short' things but it definitely does not work for me and Geany fits beautiful here.

Regards.

Re: Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

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Post by nunez »

sshine wrote: post #49
agentwiggles wrote: post #18

VSCode, with Vim emulation. I almost never want for Vim stuff that doesn't exist in the Code plugin. I generally am happy with Code's autocomplete and plugin ecosystem. Really feels like the best of both worlds to me.

Couldn’t get used to it. I’ve used Vi, Vim and Doom Emacs extensively, but VSCode is just so mousey... maybe I should try again.

Same experience last time I tried it. my particular pain point was that I couldn't interact with menus of any kind with keybindings

Re: Poll: Which IDE/text editor do you use?

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Post by geenat »

Sublime man reporting in. Plugins in python are the bomb. Lack of features drives me nutso sometimes.

Love certain features of VScode such as cross-project file drag and drop, but cannot get over how slow it is.

Kate and Lapsce are showing a lot of promise.

Admittedly wrote a ton of code in Notepad++ back in the day. Would have never switched to Sublime if it had Linux support.

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