[Swansea Hackspace] Question for coders

[Tim Moore]

I'd go along with the sentiments 110% !   The Arduino IDE is the best I've
seen and among the worst is the 'PIC' one from Mlabs.

:  )))

Tim_1

On 29 October 2014 08:55, Gerrit Niezen <gerrit.niezen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Disclaimer: I hate IDEs and love a good text editor and command line combo.
>
> TextMate has been my go-to text editor on OS X for years, but there are
> two newcomers that are both open-source, hackable and a joy to use:
>
> - Atom (https://atom.io/)
> - Brackets (http://brackets.io/)
>
> So far I’m partial to Atom.
>
> Cheers,
> Gerrit
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Emyr Morris <em at preseli.com> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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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