Monday, November 29, 2010

So, you need a good and simple editor?

Sometimes those big IDEs are great, but sometimes they are... too much.
I've been a happy user of aptana for a long time, and I like it very much, but sometimes it gets being painfully slow (due to its huge memory usage).
A popular editor for those using Mac OS is Textmate. I've tried it and I really like it. It's fast and thanks to its plugins system (called Bundles), extremely customisable. You can usually find a bundle for what you want, reduce your more common things to do to a single keypress, etc.
On the Windows side, the E Text Editor claims to have "The power of Textmate on Windows" (it's compatible with Textmate bundles).
But... what if you use GNU/Linux? well, you happen to have a great editor already there (if you use Gnome at least), Gedit. It has plugins too! I have some installed, and have just discovered the Gedit Developer Plugins. Now I'll have to try them. What, word and python symbol completion? word completion like Textmate? symbol completion only for Python? well, I already have symbol completion on my gedit via another plugin... and it works for almost all languages (thanks to exuberant ctags). At least, works wonderfully for javascript, which is what I need. Anyway, good idea to have some developer plugins all together.

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