A good code editor?

MM23 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 83

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 · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:40 am Post subject:

{g}vim.
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Anon5710 · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:27 am Post subject:

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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ZZamboni · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject: Re: A good code editor?

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject:

Kate and bluefish

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

nabla² · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 280

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

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hulmeman · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

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

Naib · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:12 pm Post subject:

axit · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 42 Location: Netherlands

++ (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:

)

Naib · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject:

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ZZamboni · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:21 pm Post subject:

emitrax · Apprentice Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 166

Simplex_TT · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Budapest

adekoba · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Oct 2006 Posts: 129

gvim

and gedit sometimes

DoktorSeven · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:00 am Post subject:

Shadow Skill · Veteran Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 1023

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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wuzzerd · Guru Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 467 Location: New Mexico

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 · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:42 am Post subject:

vim

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jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:55 am Post subject:

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 · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:03 am Post subject:

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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RageOfOrder · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:51 am Post subject:

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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Fukai · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:42 am Post subject:

Vim.
And you don't need nothing more.