A good code editor?

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MM23 · Post by **MM23** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:34 am

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.

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:40 am

{g}vim.

Anon5710 · Post by **Anon5710** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:27 am

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)

Phenax · Post by **Phenax** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:08 am

mark_alec wrote:{g}vim.

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ZZamboni · Post by **ZZamboni** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:41 pm

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?

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.

with syntax highlighting,

In Emacs: M-x font-lock-mode

code completion,

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

remote editing (through FTP, SSH, whatever)

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

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.

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:46 pm

Kate and bluefish

Hate vim and emacs, always hated them, since my first C program at the college.

nabla² · Post by **nabla²** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:57 pm

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

).

hulmeman · Post by **hulmeman** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:00 pm

Bluefish for me, leave vi and emacs to Geriatric Console Junkies!

Naib · Post by **Naib** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:12 pm

Phenax wrote:
mark_alec wrote:{g}vim.
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axit · Post by **axit** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:19 pm

++ (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

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Naib · Post by **Naib** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:10 pm

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 )

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

tld · Post by **tld** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:58 pm

6thpink wrote:Kate and bluefish

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.

Tom

ZZamboni · Post by **ZZamboni** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:21 pm

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

emitrax · Post by **emitrax** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:43 pm

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

Same here.

Simplex_TT · Post by **Simplex_TT** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:47 pm

mark_alec wrote:{g}vim.

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adekoba · Post by **adekoba** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:00 pm

gvim

and gedit sometimes

DoktorSeven · Post by **DoktorSeven** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:00 am

mark_alec wrote:{g}vim.

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Shadow Skill · Post by **Shadow Skill** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:00 am

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.

wuzzerd · Post by **wuzzerd** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:53 am

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.

omp · Post by **omp** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:42 am

jeanfrancis · Post by **jeanfrancis** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:55 am

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

Crooksey · Post by **Crooksey** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:03 am

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.

Lloeki · Post by **Lloeki** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:18 am

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.

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).

RageOfOrder · Post by **RageOfOrder** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:51 am

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.

Fukai · Post by **Fukai** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:42 am

Vim.
And you don't need nothing more.

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