There are lot of text editors available for Ubuntu / Linux Mint. gedit is the default text editor for GNOME based distributions, it’s very easy to use, you can start using it (effectively) – in minutes.
When you think of plain text editors, the first thing that may pop into your head is Windows‘ Notepad application. It does exactly what its job description states – plain features for a plain text editor.
By Drake Q Harris
What do you think is the one upgrade that can very much help web developers in increasing their productivity, speed and their quality of work? It’s probably the simplest thing in web designing but most developers tend to overlook it.
So, what is it, you may ask?
As communication becomes more Web-centric, text editors become more essential writing tools. Blocks of text get tweaked with HTML codes to provide a more graphical appearance. So good text editors are those with many of the same features found in word processors, only without the added formatting and graphic components.
I am an engineering student beginning to learn C and C++. I have had experience with Java on Eclipse, Python on its IDLE and some with Visual Studio by myself.
What I ask is not that much of a new question but I could not find any recent arguments regarding this topic.
So, should I learn to use text editors (Emacs/vim) or keep going with IDEs?
I am running a ubuntu 12.04 64 bit system with cinnamon 1.6.
Some keyboard shortcuts such as ctrl+a for select all and ctrl+w for close tab do not seem to work in text editors and text fields.
On pressing ctrl+a the cursor just moves to the 1st character of the text field. however ctrl+a does work elsewhere like in nautilus, firefox (non text fields).
IDE or Integrated Development Environment provides a sophisticated development environment with lot of features and automation of various boring tasks (although I’m not sure about that – IDE itself is very boring).
In the pursuit of my perfect text editor I've become stuck between two camps: a) distraction-free editors (namely, http://pyroom.org/ and http://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ ) b) syntax-highlighting editors (my current favorite being vim.) Looking for other solutions, or programs, to the problem laid out below.The benefit of the distraction-free editors is that, in being made for fullscree
In the pursuit of my perfect text editor I've become stuck between two camps: a) distraction-free editors (namely, http://pyroom.org/ and http://gottcode.org/focuswriter/ ) b) syntax-highlighting editors (my current favorite being vim.) Looking for other solutions, or programs, to the problem laid out below.The benefit of the distraction-free editors is that, in being made for fullscree
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