Hello Maarteen,
My answer for your questions...and valid for me at my job (computer science
engineer) AND at my home (maths hobbyist and sagemath user).
But one point before : I use a kind of IDE since 30 years ....and long time
ago, available "IDE" were not same. In 1984 I used Emacs a little (one
year) and maybe
the rest of the time, basic UNIX/Linux tools such as : ed, vi, make..
In 2014 I went to Paris for a one week comp.training about CORBA ...and it
was the worst experience for me in 30 years : don't know about CORBA (the
main subject), don't know about C++ (the generated code), don't know about
the IDE Eclipse ... and the funniest, sitting near young engineers clicking
at full speed on the mysterious icons.... Lost in translation.....usually
they finished work since 55 minutes when I was trying sadly to remember how
to roll back one file.
Emacs was and is still powerfull now...long time ago the keyboard sequences
were long to remember (CTRL-X CTRL-S)...but text editor was useful with
extending capabiliities (LISP language ,...).
I sticked until now to "vi"...because it's an universal UNIX text editor
("ed" the line editor is of not handy nowadays) and usually easy to
remember after you have understood the "editing mode" starting with ESC
keyboard key and the "command ed line" starting with ":"
The rest of IDE is basic UNIX tools : make, lex, yacc..
OK now my answers :
On Sunday, 18 July 2010 23:51:44 UTC+2, Maarten Derickx wrote:
Which OS does it run on (linux/os x/windows)?
>
UNIX or Linux
> Is it open source/free but not open source/paid?
>
vi runs on many UNIX or Linux systems
it's always free..because part of the operating system tools...if you pay
for UNIX or Linux..then sure, you will get it free...with other tools
(ls,..)
i used it on HP-UX, AIX, TrueUnix, Linux (Redhat,Centos,Ubuntu..)...
some people prefer "vim" which has a little more advanced capabilities
(syntax coloring..)
rest of the "IDE" is usually free too : make, lex, yacc and so on
for compilers, GNU tools are free too : for example gcc
How easy is it to install?
>
yes, no extra pain, no extra install
you usually worry when you have to install compilers or linkers or graphics
interface tools
> Does it require manual configuration after installation to be suitable
>
not necessary, "vi" is so old that usually you only need to know how to set
three environment variables TERM (type of terminal), LINES (number of
lines) and COLUMNS (number of columns)...and with some comp...you have only
to launch an eval resize command to set the last two
> for python/sage developement? (if so what should be changed?)
>
since using basic UNIX/Linux tools, setting PATH environment variable is
needed...python is a script langage.
> What do you like about the IDE? (maybe a small list of key features)
>
a small number of features :-)
edit text
when vi crash, you can recover a release of the file (vi -r)
> What do you hate (or don't like) about the IDE?
>
some developers like working with the "click here and the click here"
method in beautiful graphical interface....I am not in that group, more on
the
"hit the keyboard ...hit again", using UNIX shell commands
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Maarten Derickx
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