On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
So I will be doing a workshop on programming for the biology
department at my university and I was wondering what would best
suit the users.
The following are a must:
support windows & mac ( the more consistent between the two
the better)
free
no large install footprint, preferably simple install
procedure (running on laptops)
syntax highlighting
straightforward to use
anything else is a bonus.
Whats your experience with what you use?
Many thanks
Nic
Those all apply to Geany. It's much like Notepad++ but
crossplatform.
I'm sure there are other good options too. The problem with geany
is that it's syntax highlighting and auto-completion depend on
having the file where the symbol's defined open. But that's
because it's primarily a lightweight editor, not so much an IDE.
It has some ide features, but I am not using them and don't know
whether you can could solve these by creating a geny project.
