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The thread to discuss your favourite editor and suggest cool tips and tricks. I like Kate :p I've used emacs and vi a bit but i flipped for Kate. Some mornings I'd get up happy thinking I could type in Kate (no kidding). I liked the color schemes a lot.. she/it made Perl look beautiful! I'd get a lot of satisfaction from typing 10 lines and admiring all the lines neatly indented with the curlies just so and stuff :p I'd never used/seen colors before in an editor! I've always stuck with vi, and in xterm there's only black b0ring text. Trouble is, when i bumped into CSS.. I like X11 color-names to my CSS, unfortunately writing color: AliceBlue; isn't exactly standards compliant.. so i wanted to continue to type in X11 color but have that converted for me into #ffff00 crud. I also wanted the color-name to be commented and to the extreme right.. ouch! not easy to do in Kate! So i decided to go back to emacs.. which sucks because: 1. I was using XEmacs which is unusually sucky! 2. Hard to configure! Well.. it's done.. nothing fancy really.. it's just figuring out stuff in Unix involves shit loads of googleing and reading and ircing and trying out in vi and a million restarts BECAUSE to do it the right way (slightly shorter way) would involve learning eLisp! Grr! an obscure programming language which I have not the slightest! desire to learn.. oh and figuring out how to use the Emacs debugger which is different from gdb (*grumbles furiously*). ------------------------------------ So, what is your favourite editor, and why? How long have you been using it for? What editors have you used prior to this one? What features would you like to see? What irritates you, how do you feel typing in them??
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My favorite editor is jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/), because I can run it on Linux and Windows, and it has a ton of plug-ins for all kinds of things, from integrated ssh/scp to syntax checking for different languages.
Vim/gVim on UNIX-likes and Windows. SciTE on Windows at times. Notepad++ on Windows, rarely. NFOPad on Windows, for nfo's. Microsoft Visual Studio DevEnv's built-in editor(s), whenever I happen to be working on VS projects. I found Emacs' overhead too much for my purposes many years ago and never learned to really use it anywhere as fluently as I do vi-clones. At times I feel an itch to fill that gap but it seems I'll need to get a grasp of at least some Lisp dialect beforehand (you mentioned that). I find vi clones--Vim in particular, and nvi when I'm working on some BSD--a joy to tap away in. And, admittedly, the amentities DevEnv's editors provide, like IntelliSense, are quite addictive.
I use JIm's 4K text editor in DOS (or Windows) and pico/nano in linux. Jim's editor works in Russian, split screen, it prints, etc., and it is super fast on any PC. He has an older version for 8086 to 386 too. Written in assembly language over many years.
I'm a vi guy. I use it when I can, and have vi-clone vim on the PCs I use regularly. The search and replace functionality is unmatched in the editing world. I very rarely want to use any kind of enhanced text, like bold or font sizes or colors, so vi does everything I want. I wish I could use it as the editor in Backtalk, and in Lotus Notes at work.
Acme, sam, wily, TextMate, in that order. Emacs if I'm programming in Lisp. Vi if I'm stuck with it (or stuck with a command-line login to Unix). Ed and "sam -d" for non-interactive, in-place editing of files.
I manually construct 9P messages and cat them to acme :-P (just kidding)
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ERROR: terminated by signal 11
executing "read_text" on line 31 of pistachio/unreg.bt in call to procedure "form_text" on line 180 of pistachio/read.mktext.bt in call to procedure "show_text" on line 279 of pistachio/read.mktext.bt included by "include" on line 136 of pistachio/read.bt
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