IDE features are language smells.-Reg Braithwaite
I do not use any IDE, I just use gedit. Simply because gedit offers me what an IDE offers me. In this post, I'll be telling you 15 reasons why I prefer gedit above an IDE or another text editor.
So, let's get started with the reasons:
- Gedit is fast and small.
- Gedit is free.
- Gedit has a customizable(eg. themes) and clean user interface.
- Gedit has good syntax highlighting that allows you to create your own color schemes(unlike many other text editors).
- Gedit has all standard text editor features such as find and replace, the ability to count words...
- Gedit allows you to switch to full screen mode.
- Gedit has plugins and allows you to write your own plugins.
- The snippets plugin allows you to create snippets that can be inserted with something<tab>.
- Gedit has very good features for dealing with tabs and spaces.
- Gedit can auto save your files.
- The embedded terminal plugins allows you to have a terminal inside gedit.
- Gedit has word completion based on words you often use in a file.
- Gedit can automatically close brackets.
- The bookmarks plugin allows you to create bookmarks in your code.
- You can add external tools to build etc.
oh wow. Is there a windows version or is it *nix only?
ReplyDeleteit sounds great.
currently ive been using programmers notepad 2\
but that doesn't auto close stuff.
does GEdit have a version controll thingy?
(like instead of saving many versions of a file you just save the differences)
@dr. octagonapus
ReplyDeleteGedit works on windows too, you should have a look at http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/. I'm not sure if there is a version control plugin, if there isn't you can always write one ;).