What's your favorite editor to hack with? • Hacker News Board

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by thomasswift » Sun, Sep 16, 2007, 10:56 PM UTC

textmate, bundles are great

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

#52

Post by comatose_kid » Sun, Sep 16, 2007, 11:01 PM UTC

Clay tablets (in my lame attempt to be more hardcore than the 'vim and proud of it' club)

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by Leon » Sun, Sep 16, 2007, 11:13 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #29

jedit

I prefer to use jEdit when I'm working on a project that I move between several different machines to work on - if I know I'll be developing on a mac, linux, and windows machine it's good to keep some sense of organization the same inside the text editor and it's plugins.

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by Leon » Sun, Sep 16, 2007, 11:14 PM UTC

Nobody else likes using ed sometimes?

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by kmt » Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 12:57 AM UTC

pc wrote: post #28

edu wrote: post #21

currently I'm learning Emacs, and I'm loving it. For quick tasks (i.e.: config file, glue scripts) if emacs is not running (i.e.: connected on a server) then Vim. For really stupid things, cat ;)

Hmm, I've always found it odd how many people say they use emacs, but not for "quick" tasks. It's not like it takes long to start it up -- on my machine, emacs -f kill-emacs takes 0.12 seconds.

And you don't even have to start up emacs at all. I keep mine running for months without exiting. You can use tramp mode for editing remote files if needed:

/[user@]machine:localfile

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by jimbokun » Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 2:14 AM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #2

I love TextMate on the Mac. Personally I think it's the best thing since sliced bread :) The only problem is that it's not cross platform and it's not available when you're connecting over SSH into a server to fix some problems. I use Vi most of the time to just edit configuration files, etc, but I found it lacks the power I need for doing serious hacking (for all the vi lovers out there, I'm willing to admit this is…

Aquamacs is a pretty good crutch if you want to wean yourself off of standard keyboard shortcuts slowly. Basically, 'Cmd' + key does the Emacs thing most closely corresponding to the usual thing a Mac program would do. Cmd-O for Open, Cmd-X to cut, etc. This works because the main Emacs key combinations use Ctrl, of course.

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by cosmok » Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 3:19 AM UTC

Smultron.

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by minus1 » Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 3:56 AM UTC

SlickEdit

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

#59

Post by jmcantrell » Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 7:54 PM UTC

the same as my favorite editor for everything... vim

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by jmcantrell » Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 7:56 PM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #5

rms wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why regular Vi and not Vim?

You are right, I actually use Vim not Vi, I don't like Vi much as it doesn't seem to like certain things, like key movements in insert mode.

there are no movement commands in insert mode (to my knowledge) in vi