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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:34 am    Post subject: A good code editor? Reply with quote

I have traveled again and again across the face of code-based editors, but none of them have really had all the features I want. Doesn't anyone know of a good, balanced, fairly fast and light editor with syntax highlighting, code completion, remote editing (through FTP, SSH, whatever) and tabs? The closest I've found to what I'd want is Scribes, but it's a little bit TOO minimal and lacks tabs and remote editing. Scite lacks code completion and remote editing. Kate was my favorite until recently where they seemed to have replaced tabs with "sessions" or something which makes it hard to edit multiple documents. Yuck. It also lacks simple code completion, which would be really nice.

If someone manages to find me the holy grail of code editors I will love you forever.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

{g}vim.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bluefish :)

tough there are still some bugs with the syntax highlighting.
But i guess that will be fixed in the next update. (its only v1.0)
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark_alec wrote:
{g}vim.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:41 pm    Post subject: Re: A good code editor? Reply with quote

MM23 wrote:
I have traveled again and again across the face of code-based editors, but none of them have really had all the features I want.


Emacs?

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Doesn't anyone know of a good, balanced, fairly fast and light editor


The joke used to be that Emacs stands for "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping", but by today's standards, it's really very fast an light. Emacs takes less than 2 seconds to start up on my machine.

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with syntax highlighting,


In Emacs: M-x font-lock-mode

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code completion,


See http://community.livejournal.com/emacs/5731.html

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remote editing (through FTP, SSH, whatever)


Tramp: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tramp

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and tabs?


XEmacs (http://xemacs.org/) uses tabs by default. In Emacs I don't know how to do it (or if it's possible) but in emacs I don't think you really need tabs, since you can switch to other buffers using more efficient mechanisms (for example, iswitchb, http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/emacs/).

There really is very little that emacs cannot do, and very little that someone else hasn't coded already in a package. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it's really worth the effort.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kate and bluefish :P

Hate vim and emacs, always hated them, since my first C program at the college.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Emacs ftw. It'll be your first real and your last editor (because you'll have never changed back or you gone mad ;)). On the other hand, emacs is friendlier than vim IMHO. It spoiled the first half year of my Linux usage (the naively chosen edit command in SUSE starts vim and I only 8O 8O ).
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bluefish for me, leave vi and emacs to Geriatric Console Junkies!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Phenax wrote:
mark_alec wrote:
{g}vim.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

++ (g)vim

nothing beats (g)vim. light, fast, tabs, syntax highlighting. In case you don't like vi style editing I'd go for (x)emacs, although I think it's really worth it getting used to vi-style editing: fast and smooth. Vi is on almost every nix system (except gentoo comes with nano :evil: )
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

axit wrote:
++ (g)vim

nothing beats (g)vim. light, fast, tabs, syntax highlighting. In case you don't like vi style editing I'd go for (x)emacs, although I think it's really worth it getting used to vi-style editing: fast and smooth. Vi is on almost every nix system (except gentoo comes with nano :evil: )


first thing I do with a gentoo install is emerge vim then sort everything out
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

6thpink wrote:
Kate and bluefish :P

I've used kate quite a bit. I actually just installed bluefish...hadn't ever tried that.

Everything I've tried had one feature missing that drives me nuts: A keyboard command to jump between the last two documents that had focus...not the next or previous in the order they're loaded...much like control tab does in most windows editors. More often then not, I'll have many source files open and I want to jump between two without using the mouse. Damn I can't tell you how not having that klls me. I found that nedit can be cusomized to do that, but there are a bunch of reasons I don't want to use that. Bluefish is apparently another that only has keyboard shortcuts for first, last, next, previous.

I use vi as well. I might actually give gvim another chance.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tld wrote:
Everything I've tried had one feature missing that drives me nuts: A keyboard command to jump between the last two documents that had focus...not the next or previous in the order they're loaded...much like control tab does in most windows editors.


In Emacs: Ctrl-x b Enter. Sounds complicated, but it's really fast to type it, and it becomes second nature quite soon :twisted:
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Naib wrote:
axit wrote:
++ (g)vim

nothing beats (g)vim. light, fast, tabs, syntax highlighting. In case you don't like vi style editing I'd go for (x)emacs, although I think it's really worth it getting used to vi-style editing: fast and smooth. Vi is on almost every nix system (except gentoo comes with nano :evil: )


first thing I do with a gentoo install is emerge vim then sort everything out


Same here.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark_alec wrote:
{g}vim.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gvim


and gedit sometimes
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mark_alec wrote:
{g}vim.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I prefer emacs but in all honest I can't stand how much configuring you have to do with it and Vim. I am still trying to understand how to work the abbreviation system in Emacs which really pisses me off because I have problems using my fingers correctly so I could really use that typing aid. I just wish I could get skeletons and abbreviations to actually work....sigh.

All of that said Gvim or Emacs will probably serve you well.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well in a terminal I've used joe for years.

Pencil me in with the kate and bluefish crowd when it comes to gui editors.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

vim :D
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vim all the way ;)

But, I have to admit that I use Eclipse (full JAVA programming environment, with a C/C++ plugin) when I have to build bigger things ;)
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I havent beein using Bluefish very long, but its nice from what i have seen.

Other than bluefish i will mainly use gedit/nano.

Nano is just so easy from the command line, vim just confues me about editing exisitng files, i havent really read into it, i only used it on a very base level, :im :w + :q is the exrent of vim for me.

When i have the time ill look into it, but nano works great for me, easy and fast.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I use Eclipse (full JAVA programming environment, with a C/C++ plugin) when I have to build bigger things

I use eclipse too, it as excellent support for java via the included JDT, and C/C++ via the CDT. It also has more than decent support for PHP and python via trustudio foundation free component. I also use eclox for integrating doxygen with eclipse. many others are available.

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But, I have to admit that

don't be ashamed, it is an excellent piece of software. anyone looking at its internals can't say the opposite.
but hey, let's not fork the thread, this is a full-blown IDE ;)

as for a code highlight editor, I use mainly gedit, used kate when I was under kde. now I may take interest into bluefish.
but that's just for punctual use, as I noticed that anytime you want good code completion you would have to go for an IDE anyway, as a software would really autocomplete anything (even your own classes/functions) only when it can handle a group of files as a whole ('project' or whatever).
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For C/C++ , I've been pretty happy with KDevelop for a relatively light IDE
For a full-blown C/C++ IDE, I like Anjuta so far. Does what I need.

For Java, Eclipse is nice, but might be more than you're looking for.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vim.
And you don't need nothing more.
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