Linux & Text Editors

[Albatross]

Last few (relevant) post (snippets):

JCaselles wrote:

since your were talking about kde4... what do you think about KDevelop?

Catfish wrote:

I can only comment that I very much dislike the default syntax highlighting that Kwrite, Kate and KDevelop use.

Otherwise I don't have any real experience using KDevelop, and I'm looking forward to learning it. A while back I used to use Kate for multiple files and its terminal to run make. I suppose KDevelop could be a better choice?

hanst99 wrote:

On Linux, I usually use Vim for editing, git for version control and rake as a much better make alternative. Though I haven't ever actually tried KDE. (I'm one of those strange people that likes Unity).

Catfish wrote:

@ hanst99: I don't understand the appeal of Vim, could you enumerate the reasons why you prefer it to a modern graphic editor with menus and file tabs?

hanst99 wrote:

@Catfish - in any file editor I would end up using hotkeys anyways. And Vim hotkeys (and commands) are IMHO far easier to use. I am using 9 workspaces, so if I am actually editing 2 or more files parallely I am just running multiple instances of Vim. If I just need to do a quick lookup (e.g. in a header while editing a source file), I just open a split window. But it's a personal thing really - you try it, and then you like it or you don't. I don't think there's such a thing as a text editor that everyone will accept equally.

-Albatross

[Catfish]

Albatross wrote:

Is there anywhere where you can add compiler flags in KDevelop?

Catfish wrote:

Nope. You can't even change the compiler.

[Albatross]

What? Why? ;_;

-Albatross

[ne555]

could you enumerate the reasons why you prefer it to a modern graphic editor with menus and file tabs?

There are tabs in vim.
One thing that I like is the possibility to open the file in multiple tabs/windows.It provides useful when doing a merge. So a tab have the diff, and the other have just the file (with syntax highlight)

Also the regex are quite good.
Or just the little commands: change-word, change-inner_block (parenthesis, quotes, brackets)


The mouse is slow, trying ratpoison now.
ed is the standard editor

[S6k9GNh0]

When I used to own a server, I could use vim through SSH to edit my projects remotely so I didn't have to manage a local git repository.

Also, vim can use the mouse if there's a mouse available and it's enabled.

Also, my take on the mouse is similar to this: When you play an RTS game, you're discouraged to use the mouse because it lowers a productivity. You'll never see a professional Starcraft II player use the mouse as much as a beginner.

[ne555]

I could use vim through SSH to edit my projects remotely

I thought that that was common (that the magic was in scp)

[moorecm]

I don't understand the appeal of Vim, could you enumerate the reasons why you prefer it to a modern graphic editor with menus and file tabs?

Vim has menus and tabs. :P

[Catfish]

You mean plugins? And I noticed Kate & family have Vi Input Mode.

[BHX]

Didn't realize a new thread for this topic was made. So I'll just c/p my original post:

Albatross, I've never understood the appeal of vim either. I prefer using Geany and then going to command line to compile. Need to learn makefiles and cmake now that I think about it.

What? Why? ;_;

Wait, is there any other compiler under Linux besides GNU? I've just used GNU and never looked at other compilers.

[Albatross]

There's clang, though it's not as well-supported as it could be. I've had really positive experiences with it.

The main reason I still use g++ is because it's still better supported by most IDEs than clang in terms of error message parsing. That and there's no qmake profile for clang. But at least if I wanted to, I could configure Qt Creator to use clang.

-Albatross

[BHX]

Oh I hadn't heard of clang before. I have Qt Creator, KDEvelop 4, Anjuta, Code blocks, and God knows what else on here. Use mostly Geany and command line though as I said.

[S6k9GNh0]

There's a few other commercial compilers that run under Linux.

There's also Intel C++ and the AMD counterpart.

[1yR4jE8b]

Vim? pussssshaaah, real men use ed


...I like emacs >.<

[Cheraphy]

Obligatory http://xkcd.com/378/

also I prefer nano.

[S6k9GNh0]

Nano must be the strangest choice of them all. That's literally less than coding in notepad, it has no mouse support. And yet, I do know people, in real life, that use nano.

[Catfish]

I prefer mcedit.

[Cheraphy]

computerquip wrote:

Nano must be the strangest choice of them all. That's literally less than coding in notepad, it has no mouse support. And yet, I do know people, in real life, that use nano.

I chose it as a command line editor. I'd hardly call it less than coding in notepad considering you can get syntax highlighting with it. As for it not having mouse support, I seldom use a mouse when at the command line anyways.

[chrisname]

nano is what I use for quick editing, gedit is my text editor of choice. It manages to have (almost) all the features I want while still being simple enough to not irritate me. I usually only use an IDE for C#, in which case I use MonoDevelop. Otherwise I use hand-written Makefiles (it takes me about 5 seconds to write them because I write them mostly from memory) and the command-line.

[BHX]

Pic of my developer tab in Ubuntu:
http://twitpic.com/9bajuv

And you get to see my ugly mug too while you are at it ;).

[Albatross]

Hmm... okay. For comparison, if anyone's interested, here's mine:
http://postimage.org/image/ylqbwcy8x/

I'm a one-tool-per-task kind of person when it comes to applications. :)

-Albatross