2015-06-29
Here are some links to editors, to start the discussion. The descriptions are mostly marketing from their own websites.
Sublime Text : Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
Notepad++ : Notepad++: a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
gedit : Gnome text editor. A very basic text editor that comes with most modern Linux distros.
Atom : A hackable text editor for the 21st Century At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it. (32KB)
VIM : An editor that's been around for a while, for a reason. Good cheatsheet
EMACS : The other combatant in the Vim vs. Emacs flamewar.
LightTable : Light Table is the next generation code editor. Light Table Connects you to your creation with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code.
Visual Studio Code : A lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that runs on OS X, Linux and Windows. (lightweight editor in the same vein as Sublime/Atom. Full IntelliSense support!)
Brackets : With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, Brackets is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser. (blurb from the website)
JetBrains A commercial per-language family of IDE's based on the success of IntelliJ IDEA(Java). Editors include:
- InteliJ IDEA - Java
- PHPStorm - PHP
- PyCharm - Python
- RubyMine - Ruby
- WebStorm - JS/HTML/CSS
- AppCode - Objective-C
- CLion - C/C++
Joe's Own Editor Like EMACS + WordStar
nano GNU Nano - GNU nano aims to emulate Pico and perhaps provide extra functionality.
pico Pico is a text editor for Unix and Unix-based computer systems. It is integrated with the Pine e-mail client, which was designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington.
ed ed is the standard text editor. -1971 ;)
Aptana An Eclipse-alike for web stuff.