I regret nothing. Say what you want.
Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you're welcome to keep them.
Pe is the true way.
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Elementary os has a great code editor, zed is nice, even gnome builder.
Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!
I'm doing my part
Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.
Tab means "move to the next tabstop", not "advance a fixed amount".
(I don't do it, I'm not THAT insane)
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Vi came with Ubuntu.
Gedit was my main text editor for years. I also used it for work. It has all the basic features that you need for coding. For everything else I use the terminal.
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helix ftw 🧬
If you're not writing it all down on paper and then punching holes in cards, you're doing it all wrong
Real programmers code with TTL chips.
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A fireable offense.
I used Notepad++ for virtually all coding I did (Python, JS, various Markup Languages, Action Script back in the day, etc) for a couple decades. The only reason I use VSCode now is because I inherited a nightmare of a legacy spaghetti bowl and needed the function tracing to attempt to figure out anything. I still prefer N++ for most small projects.
I'm currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.
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notepad.exe
wine notepad.exe
literally me.
I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It's enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.
I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don't judge me.
Me too. I'm still not sure what the problem is and I'm kind of afraid to ask.
I do have the plugin for multi-line editing set up, I guess.
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KWrite is the standard text editor. Kate is the advanced one. The name actually literally stands for "KDE Advanced Text Editor"
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To be fair, Kate isn't just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.
Wow, you're right of course. I completely forgot kwrite still existed, tbh.
Kwrite doesnt really exist on its own anymore. Its a slimmed down gui for kate now.
Oh wow you're right, it's basically just kate without some of the toolbars now. Hadn't used plain kwrite in a while.
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Geany is a nice GUI option. It's a bit more capable but still lean.
It's probably time for me to re-evaluate the host of coding editors out there. For the most part I just use good text editors. Though I do love Spyder, I only use it for a certain subset of tasks.
Yep, I came here to say that Kate is really nice. Even though I'm an emacs user and won't use it.
Nano, on the other hand, can't do almost anything, so I can't recommend that people make heavy use of it. It's ok for random small edits, but that's it. (By the way, YSK that you can set your terminal to use Kate as the default editor by setting the $EDITOR variable.)
We're almost like coding siblings lol