[Swansea Hackspace] Question for coders

[Emyr Morris]

Thank you, useful comments I will look into those.

I write all of my code 'by hand' so I don't need anything
fancy,textwrangler would do if it could simply do the things in my first
post. I have about 40,000 lines in f code f

On Wednesday, October 29, 2014, Iain Menzies-Runciman <ming at gwndwn.org.uk>
wrote:

> 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 <javascript:;>>
> 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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