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

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Post by beza1e1 »

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 is a "DE", without the "I". This is a good thing. The "I" would mean that the parts would not be reusable in other contexts. While you can use "sed" for many things, you cannot do that with Eclipse's search-and-replace dialog.

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

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Post by mooism2 »

wisty wrote: post #39
jasonkester wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I find running tests automatically when I save is quite helpful, for interpreted languages as well as compiled languages.

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

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Post by mooism2 »

bigiain wrote: post #69
jasonkester wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Out of curiosity, what's the biggest software project you've worked on? (maybe measured by something stupid like KLOC or possibly "total time to compile") I doubt Linus thinks "compile while you type" is a good idea, I'm not sure how much further down you need to scale until it does become a useful feature.

In terms of feedback from compile errors, the important size is the size of the source file you're working on, not the overall size of the project.

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

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Post by giu »

rubergly wrote: post #66
giu wrote: post #41

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I actually bought a license after using the editor for quite some time. It's the first time I spent money on a text editor, despite having the possibility to chose from a number of free alternatives. For me, this money is really spent well for various reasons, the most prominent ones being that the software makes me happy and I really enjoy working with it. I'm currently using version 2, too, and the developer is pus…

I've used Sublime when I haven't felt like setting up Vim or Emacs on Windows. are there major benefits to Sublime 2 over the original?

* ST 2 runs on Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows;

* Auto-completion has been improved, in that you can now continue typing when the suggestions pop up;

* Other UI changes (new tab design, mini map has been moved to the right side, side bar, you can hide the menu when in full screen mode, etc.);

* A lot of other changes; I'd therefore recommend you to have a look at the change logs for more information: http://www.sublimetext.com/2

I had been using ST1 for quite some time before starting using ST2, and I already was a fan of ST1.

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