[Hidden-tech] Text/Code Editor

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:32:27 -0400, "nestor at fuzzy-math.com" <nestor at fuzzy-math.com> wrote:
> --Just to be clear, I'm not asking for a recommendation, but I am  
> hoping that the thread will help to open up options for myself and  
> others.  Just to start the ball rolling:
> 
> I use TextWrangler on a mac, notepad++ on  Windows, and usually nano  
> on Linux.
> I'd be really interested in a programmers text editor with syntax  
> highlighting, etc on Linux though.

I've been using vi since I started using linux, and get frustrated
whenever I have to use any other editor :)  vim has very nice syntax
highlighting, and lots of other optional wiz-bang features, including
language specific text completion.  But you have to like modal editing
to use it, and a lot of people don't.

I've used Eclipse, and I had to struggle with Sun Creator for a while
once, and in both cases I wound up editing the files in vi and just using
the IDE to do the build (because that's how someone else had set up the
build process).

Then, again, I'm a bit of an odd duck.  I don't use a desktop, I use a
window manager that keeps all windows maximized and I switch between them
using the keyboard and text labels for all the windows.  Between ratpoison
(the window manager), screen (for managing all the terminal windows
related to a given project), vim, and vimperator (a vi-inspired modal web
browsing environment built on top of firefox), I think I have a pretty
darn productive IDE.  But very few people would probably agree with me :)

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R. David Murray                                      www.bitdance.com
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