[Swansea Hackspace] Question for coders

[Iain Menzies-Runciman]

The answer depends on just what you are looking for….

As a programmer using OSX I use a variety of tools:

TextWrangler is great for just hacking around with simple text files, such as config files, etc, knocking up quick test cases in scripting languages, etc

For more feature such as variable highlighting, code completion, etc I will use a more powerful IDE

For Java & PHP I use Netbeans. Eclipse is another popular alternative - I just don’t like it.

For Python, I am currently using PyCharm - but I keep changing my Python development environment, as I have yet to find one that really suits me. Other options there include things like Eric & Ninja IDE 

For C/C++ depending on the complexity of the project, I will use either netbeans again or Emacs 

As for searching all files in a directory - that is what OSX Spotlight is for. 

Regards,
Ming.


On 28 Oct 2014, at 20:31, Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:

> Hello there
> 
> I have been using the Windoze Notepad++ text editor for many years
> 
> I love the fact I can double click on a word in my PHP to highlight it, all other instances highlight automatically.
> 
> And also when I double click on a word, I can then press CTRL+F and the 'find' dialogue opens and the word is already set as the search term
> 
> both of these are great time saving features.
> 
> But, as you know I use OSX
> 
> Is there ANY text editor that runs on OSX / *nix that has similar features?
> 
> I have tried TextWrangler and some others and I can't say that I have found anything that has the sweet functionality if Notepad++
> 
> Notepad++ will also search all files in a given directory which can be handy when I have thousands of documents to check at once.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Emyr
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