Editors & IDEs

• Editors
  • ViM
  • Neovim
  • GNU Emacs
  • Nano
  • Brackets
  • Phoenix Code
  • Komodo Edit
  • Sublime
  • Atom
• IDEs
  • IntelliJ IDEA
    • PyCharm
    • WebStorm
    • RubyMine
    • PHPStorm
    • GoLand
    • RustRover
    • CLion
    • dotUltimate
    • Fleet
    • Compose MultiPlatform
    • Datagrip
    • Dataspell
    • Aqua
    • WriterSide
  • VS Code
  • Eclipse
  • Geany
• Editor Config
• IDE Details
  • Eclipse Details
    • Eclipse Plugins
• Meme
  • Light Theme IDE
  • Powerful Computer

Editors

Tip: from less, you can hit the v key to open the file in the default $EDITOR.

ViM

Vi iMproved.

• vi was the core editor available on every unix system
• vim means vi improved
• highly configurable but steep learning curve
• basic knowledge of vi is a core skill for all unix / linux server administrators
• tonnes of plugins, highly extensible and widely used
• see my advanced .vimrc for all sorts of trips & tricks, hotkey linting and building, plugins etc.

See vim.md for more details.

Neovim

:octocat: neovim/neovim

Fork of vim above.

• more actively developed
• asynchronous plugins
• extensible in Lua instead of vimscript
• config can be in lua and vimscript
• better external UI support
• built-in terminal

GNU Emacs

• advanced highly customizable programming editor written by unix veteran by Richard Stallman in 1976
• steep learning curve like vim
• git integration via Magit
• can run shell commands and interact with system processes directly from Emac
• modes for different programming languages and tasks:
  • major modes provide features specific to a language or type of file (e.g., Python mode, HTML mode)
  • minor modes add additional functionalities, such as enabling version control, spell-checking, or syntax highlighting
• integration with external tools: Emacs supports a wide array of external tools, such as Git (via Magit), debuggers, shells, email clients, and more. You can run shell commands and interact with system processes directly from Emacs
• people used to joke that Emacs stood for "Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping" thinking it was resource hungry
  • contrast to today with IntelliJ sucking up 8GB of RAM!
• extensible via Emacs Lisp (Elisp)

Nano

https://www.nano-editor.org/

Simple lightweight text editor for beginners.

Easier to use than vim or emacs.

Developed as an alternative to the pico text editor which was not entirely open source.

Brackets

https://brackets.io/.io

Phoenix Code

https://phcode.io/

:octocat:phcode-dev/phoenix

Next generation of the above Brackets editor that runs everywhere, even in web browser.

Web Editor:

https://phcode.dev/

Desktop Editor:

https://phcode.io/#/home

Komodo Edit

https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-edit/

Sublime

https://www.sublimetext.com/

Slick.

Atom

Discontinued. Seemed slow on big files.

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/sunsetting-atom/

IDEs

IntelliJ IDEA

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/

State of the art modern popular IDE - proprietary but has a free version.

• fast & slick
• feature rich
• highly extensible with tonnes of plugins
  • (see IntelliJ page for many good ones)
• built-in terminal
• resource intensive - just buy a more powerful machine like my M3 Max, it's worth it

The best of the best in my opinion.

See the IntelliJ IDEA page for more.

PyCharm

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

Python-focused version of the grand daddy IntelliJ IDEA.

WebStorm

https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

JavaScript-focused version of IntelliJ IDEA.

RubyMine

https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/

Ruby-focused version of the grand daddy IntelliJ IDEA.

Unfortuntely, this is proprietary paid for only and doesn't have a free version like PyCharm.

PHPStorm

https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/

Proprietary paid for IntelliJ IDEA for PHP developers.

GoLand

https://www.jetbrains.com/go/

Paid for Golang version of IntelliJ IDEA.

RustRover

https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/

Rust-focused version of IntelliJ IDEA.

CLion

https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/

C / C++ IDE version of IntelliJ - paid for.

dotUltimate

https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/

.NET IDE.

Fleet

https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/

AI-powered polyglot IDE, determines your project language.

Compose MultiPlatform

https://www.jetbrains.com/compose-multiplatform/

UI IDE to create shared UIs for Android, iOS, desktop, and web.

Datagrip

https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/

Paid for RDBMS & NoSQL client.

Dataspell

https://www.jetbrains.com/dataspell/

Paid for data & analytics clients. A step further than Datagrip above.

Aqua

https://www.jetbrains.com/aqua/

Focused on Test Automation.

WriterSide

https://www.jetbrains.com/writerside/

Focused on writing API, SDKs, Documentation and Tutorials.

VS Code

https://code.visualstudio.com/

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is a free modern popular open-source IDE with plugins.

• IntelliSense - code completion
• remote development extensions enable developers to work seamlessly on remote machines or containers, enhancing the flexibility for those who work in cloud-based or server environments
• built-in terminal
• not quite as feature rich as Visual Studio

Not as good as IntelliJ in my opinion.

See the VS Code page for more details.

Eclipse

https://www.eclipse.org/

Old open source IDE.

Most people prefer IntelliJ as it's much faster and slicker.

Geany

https://www.geany.org/

Flyweight - fast & small.

Editor Config

• .editorconfig - standard config file that many editors will read, including GitHub for displaying the README. md in the repo home page
  • see my .editorconfig

IDE Details

Eclipse Details

I haven't used eclipse enough to warrant its own page, so here are some minor bits.

F3 on a class to go it it's definition

Next / Previous Tab - Fn-Ctrl-Left / Fn-Ctrl-Right

Shortcut	Description
sysout -> Ctrl-Space	Fills in the common System.out.println in Java
Right-click -> Source -> Generate Getters & Setters
default package -> Right-click -> Export -> Java -> JAR file

Eclipse -> Preferences (Mac):

• Window
  • Preferences
    • Maven
      • untick - Do not automatically update dependencies from remote repositories
      • tick - Download repository index updates on startup

Eclipse JSONTools validation plugin (Help -> MarketPlace), but needs files to be .json (not .template from CloudFormation)

IntelliJ also has JSON error validation, but it's not as good as it's hard to see underscores not the big red cross eclipse puts in the left column.

Eclipse Plugins

• CheckStyle
• Cucumber
• PMD
• Findbugs
• CodeTemplates
• Mylyn

Meme

Light Theme IDE

Any of you who advocate for light theme IDE are not to be trusted in my opinion... 😉😂

Powerful Computer

Ported from various private Knowledge Base pages 2013+