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IDE that is nice on the eyes... for Linux
Posted by DakeDesuDx [send private reply] at January 02, 2002, 02:42:12 PM
Well, I will soon be making a (better) website sometime soon (but not this site, I decided not to play around with a working formula), and I am wondering, what editors you guys would recommend... due to some problems with libPNG on my system, I cannot install xemacs on my system, and emacs, with its horrible white background of burnt retinas... I was using Xcoral, but after a while it just starts to seem dumb... so any suggestions?
I could use vim, but I would like to try something new, which syntax highlighting, so... any recommendations?
Posted by gian [send private reply] at January 02, 2002, 03:43:54 PM
gedit is nice... dunno about syntax highlighting though...
Posted by unknown_lamer [send private reply] at January 02, 2002, 08:09:43 PM
EMACS! You know, you really should RTFM more. In your .Xdefaults, mess with these variables:
emacs*background: [named color or hex code] emacs*foreground: [same] emacs*cursor: [same] etc. Read the Resources section of the emacs manual for all the other stuff. Emacs 21 rocks (trust me, I use it every day). I have my bg color set to a nice light gray, so it is very nice on the eyes.
Posted by DakeDesuDx [send private reply] at January 02, 2002, 08:41:58 PM
There IS a manual for emacs? Well, that would certianly explian why I never read it... not knowing it existed.
Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at January 03, 2002, 02:03:47 AM
Vim has syntax highlighting as well. Try ":syntax on" to enable it; it automagically works out how to highlight your file.
Posted by sjh [send private reply] at January 04, 2002, 05:30:03 PM
Vim does syntax highlighting. Fact is, vim has one of the largest libraries of syntax tables to help it highlight stuff; at last count there were 313 files in my $VIM6DIR/syntax dir. Vim also has intergrated support for Python, Tcl, Ruby and Perl which allows you to do interesting things using <lang> as the scripting language. Nice, eh?
I suspect you need to set: " Switch syntax highlighting on, when the terminal has colors " Also switch on highlighting the last used search pattern. if &t_Co > 2 || has("gui_running") syntax on set hlsearch endif -sjh
Posted by RootPrompt [send private reply] at January 11, 2002, 08:19:01 PM
I tend to use Nedit when programming. I find it's quick launch time is nice, as I tend to start it from an xterm session. It's not a full-featured IDE, but does pretty much everything I'd expect it to. It has syntax highlighting for a number of languages, macros, and a number of other useful features. I think their site it http://www.nedit.org.
Al
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