[osflash] [OT] one editor for everything (emacs)

[zwetan]

On 12/30/06, Nicolas Cannasse <ncannasse at motion-twin.com> wrote:
> My two eurocents,
>
> Editors are like women. Some people prefer them very light, some other
> more "fat". Some men like them almost naked, other with a lot of
> "features"... and everybody can spend hours convincing his friends that
> the girl he is in love with is the best of the world :)
>

totally agree :)
it's all a matter of taste, context and use



> Let's bring a little peace in the geeks world : please stop comparing
> editors.
>
> Happy new year everybody !
>

happy new year too



on the topic:

something that can be interesting is listing one editor list
how it changed and why, so I take myself as an example

- DOS prompt, rshell prompt
  I was basically a console whore
  I like GUI too, but still there are things that I can only do
quickly in a prompt
  shell script dude! let the code do the work

- notepad
  it just text damnit
  before software as dreamweaver etc.. even existed
  notepad was my choice to edit HTML
  no features but at least compared to MS junk HTML editor
  it allowed me to generate clean HTML

- Ultraedit
  for the color hilighting
  when you re into PHP, Perl, JS, etc..
  more than one language, the highlighting can help not going nuts
  in fact code hilighting is the only feature I really need from an editor
  all the rest is bonus

- Flash 5 IDE
  2 weeks, was crashing to much, no comment

- PrimalScript
  for the color highlighting and the project organization
  in my quest to find a descent JavaScript/ActionScript editor
  this one I use it for years, for me it got the good balance
  between GUI lightness and customization (you can add custom CLI tools
  and have there result in the IDE itself for ex)

- Notepad2
  I just need syntax hilighting and a lightweight editor
  that I can run form an USB key and/or download from my gmail
  sure for heavier stuff notepad2 is just too light,
  but for day to day task and editing I don't need anything else

- Eclipse / Flex Builder
  to speed up things in AS3/Flex
  to speed up things in JS (love JSEclipse)
  to use a free and open source and customisable editor
  so if I generate a project file or some other files
  other people can use it without the need to buy an editor


things that people may like:
use 2 editors
1 project oriented, not so light (Eclipse, PrimalScript, whatever...)
1 single edit oriented, very light

for now my combination of choice are

notepad2+PrimalScript
or
notepad2+Flex Builder

cheers,
zwetan