I regret nothing. Say what you want.

Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you’re welcome to keep them.

  • AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
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    18 days ago

    I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It’s enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.

    I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don’t judge me.

    • mmddmm@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      Yep, I came here to say that Kate is really nice. Even though I’m an emacs user and won’t use it.

      Nano, on the other hand, can’t do almost anything, so I can’t recommend that people make heavy use of it. It’s ok for random small edits, but that’s it. (By the way, YSK that you can set your terminal to use Kate as the default editor by setting the $EDITOR variable.)

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      18 days ago

      Me too. I’m still not sure what the problem is and I’m kind of afraid to ask.

      I do have the plugin for multi-line editing set up, I guess.

    • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 days ago

      To be fair, Kate isn’t just a text editor, it actually is an IDE. The text editor version would be kwrite, which would be horrible to program in.

    • AnAmericanPotato@programming.devEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Geany is a nice GUI option. It’s a bit more capable but still lean.

      It’s probably time for me to re-evaluate the host of coding editors out there. For the most part I just use good text editors. Though I do love Spyder, I only use it for a certain subset of tasks.

    • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
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      18 days ago

      KWrite is the standard text editor. Kate is the advanced one. The name actually literally stands for “KDE Advanced Text Editor”

        • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
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          18 days ago

          Huh, I did not know that any didn’t. I just tried a bunch, and here is a quick breakdown of what was preinstalled on each:

          distro Kate kwrite
          Fedora false true
          KDE Neon true false
          Kubuntu true false
          Manjaro true true
          SteamOS true true
          • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            18 days ago

            Well, I can throw in another for free:

            distro Kate kwrite
            openSUSE true false

            But yeah, interesting list. These days, KWrite is basically just Kate with different configuration, if I understand correctly, so it always feels like you might as well go with Kate. In my opinion, KWrite is also not particularly easier to use, since basic editing works the same, but I guess, that can be disagreed on.

            I do like that Kate is pre-installed. Imagine Windows, but rather than notepad.exe, you get Notepad++ out of the box. Now imagine that to also be a whole lot better and then that’s what it feels like to have Kate on fresh installations.
            You can just start coding something right away, without it being necessary to install a different editor.

  • blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io
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    18 days ago

    Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.

    Tab means “move to the next tabstop”, not “advance a fixed amount”.

    (I don’t do it, I’m not THAT insane)

    • ValiantDust@feddit.org
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      18 days ago

      Me: hits return.

      Word: “Sure, here, a new line. I already indented it for you, same as the one before. Like a good IDE.”

      Me: “That’s nice of you, Word, but I want this one to be indented one tab stop less than the line before.” Hits delete.

      Word: “Delete, you say? Sure, back to the line before.”

      Me: “No, no! Just delete one tab! Maybe, if I select the line and hit dele…”

      Word: “Why of course!”

      Me: “Shit, it’s gone. Undo! Hmm… Move the thingy here on top?”

      Word: “Move all the lines you say? No problem!”

      Me: “Nvm, I’ll just indent everything by hand with spaces.”

  • Adalast@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I used Notepad++ for virtually all coding I did (Python, JS, various Markup Languages, Action Script back in the day, etc) for a couple decades. The only reason I use VSCode now is because I inherited a nightmare of a legacy spaghetti bowl and needed the function tracing to attempt to figure out anything. I still prefer N++ for most small projects.

  • vfscanf@discuss.tchncs.de
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    18 days ago

    Gedit was my main text editor for years. I also used it for work. It has all the basic features that you need for coding. For everything else I use the terminal.

  • TinyRhino@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    If you’re not writing it all down on paper and then punching holes in cards, you’re doing it all wrong

    • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com
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      18 days ago

      This feels a little bit like Brainfuck tbh.

      For what it’s worth, I can think of one thing that would make brainfuck even worse: Instead of using 8 arbitrary characters (it only uses > < + - . , ] and [ for every instruction) for the coding, use the 8 most common letters of the alphabet. Since it ignores all other characters, all of your comments would need to be done without those 8 letters.

      For example, “Hello World” in brainfuck is the following:

      ++++++++[>++++[>++>+++>+++>+<<<<-]>+>+>->>+[<]<-]>>.>---.+++++++..+++.>>.<-.<.+++.------.--------.>>+.>++.

      If we instead transposed those 8 instructions onto the 8 most common letters of the alphabet, it would look more like this:

      eeeeeeeeaneeeeaneeneeeneeenesssstonenentnneasostonnIntttIeeeeeeeIIeeeInnIstIsIeeeIttttttIttttttttInneIneeI
    • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      This is such a waste of time to the point where it infuriates me. I know the standard answer is “why not?”, but it’s just cringe to, like you are trying too hard to purposely be stupid, whereas with standard text editor you can say already they cba’ed to install anything so it was a case of initial setup vs. long term productivity.