Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-09-05 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:28:29 UTC, Dukc wrote: 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

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-09-02 Thread Robert M. Münch via Digitalmars-d
On 2017-08-30 11:28:35 +, Anonymouse said: ... considering that my vim knowledge so far largely consists of :wq and :q!. If you want to learn it fast up to a level that covers 90% of what you need www.shortcutfoo.com is your friend. -- Robert M. Münch http://www.saphirion.com smarter |

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-31 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 31 August 2017 at 23:20:52 UTC, Jerry wrote: On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 22:42:40 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 21:30:44 UTC, Jerry wrote: The install requirement is arbitrary, and why 20MB? It just seems like you are trying to advertise that

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-31 Thread Jerry via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 22:42:40 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 21:30:44 UTC, Jerry wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: The requirements are rather vague, you can interpret it in a number of ways. The sensible

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 06:21:36PM -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] > It's possible to read pretty much any language without syntax > highlighting, but I find that it makes it faster when you have good > syntax highlighting, and I see no reason not to take advantage of it. >

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 16:42:46 H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 04:24:47PM -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 11:28:35 Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > > On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 12:11:14 UTC, Petar

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 04:24:47PM -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 11:28:35 Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 12:11:14 UTC, Petar Kirov > > > > [ZombineDev] wrote: > > > vim or SublimeText > > > > I want to get

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 21:30:44 UTC, Jerry wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: The requirements are rather vague, you can interpret it in a number of ways. The sensible interpretation imho is "as low an install footprint as possible while still

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, August 30, 2017 11:28:35 Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 12:11:14 UTC, Petar Kirov > > [ZombineDev] wrote: > > vim or SublimeText > > I want to get into vim. It has to be vim, can't be Neovim or gvim > or any other clone; I'm doing it for a Linux

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread Jerry via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: The requirements are rather vague, you can interpret it in a number of ways. The sensible interpretation imho is "as low an install footprint as possible while still fulfilling the other requirements". I'm not aware of

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 15:27:43 UTC, b4s1L3 wrote: On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 11:28:35 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: Dutyl[3] seems much more interesting but also more daunting, considering that my vim knowledge so far largely consists of :wq and :q!. Yeah, haha, that's the basic

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread b4s1L3 via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 11:28:35 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: Dutyl[3] seems much more interesting but also more daunting, considering that my vim knowledge so far largely consists of :wq and :q!. Yeah, haha, that's the basic command you need to know when the time comes to rebase a git

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 August 2017 at 11:28:35 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 12:11:14 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: vim or SublimeText I want to get into vim. It has to be vim, can't be Neovim or gvim or any other clone; I'm doing it for a Linux class. I'm on Arch

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 12:11:14 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: vim or SublimeText I want to get into vim. It has to be vim, can't be Neovim or gvim or any other clone; I'm doing it for a Linux class. I'm on Arch Linux (or Manjaro), so I have plenty available from the official

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:28:29 UTC, Dukc wrote: The problem with geany is that it's syntax highlighting and auto-completion depend on having the file where the symbol's defined open. No, Geany supports generation and automatic loading of global tags files:

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-30 Thread Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 08:15:08 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: 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

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-29 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 at 14:05:13 UTC, Ryion wrote: On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 21:17:19 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: Why "again"? You've not stated so before AFAICT. Regardless, I disagree that discussing the validity of recommendations in a thread specifically made to gather such

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-29 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 21:17:19 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: Why "again"? You've not stated so before AFAICT. Regardless, I disagree that discussing the validity of recommendations in a thread specifically made to gather such recommendations is a distraction from the topic; I would

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-29 Thread Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d
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

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-28 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 28 August 2017 at 20:48:44 UTC, Ryion wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: It's nearly ten times the size, so yeah, it is relative to Textadept. You can say the same thing in comparison with vim which is only a 2MB install size, 20MB in

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-28 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: It's nearly ten times the size, so yeah, it is relative to Textadept. You can say the same thing in comparison with vim which is only a 2MB install size, 20MB in comparison is gigantic. Indeed, but that's only the raw

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-28 Thread Manu via Digitalmars-d
On 28 August 2017 at 01:17, Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 13:15:41 UTC, Ryion wrote: > >> On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: >> >>> The following are a must: >>> no large install footprint

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-28 Thread user1234 via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 12:14:18 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: If it's to learn D programming, then I strongly advice CoEdit (despite I think that Geany's automatic brace insertion and copy paste features work MUCH better). For learning D but also if you program **only** in D. When the

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
I only use vim, including the GUI version when I was on Windows a couple years ago, but I recently saw this blog post that suggests Sublime would be a good choice for noobs, who might be overwhelmed by vim's learning curve and want a more GUI-like experience:

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:14:07 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: Indeed, but that's only the raw executable, not the full package (which includes things like syntax highlighting), which adds another 26MB. But, yes, Textadept and

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
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

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 18:08:52 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: Indeed, but that's only the raw executable, not the full package (which includes things like syntax highlighting), which adds another 26MB. But, yes, Textadept and vim+vim-core (Gentoo speak) are both gigantic required to bare

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 16:22:44 UTC, Jerry wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 15:17:51 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 13:15:41 UTC, Ryion wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: The following are a must: no large install

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Jerry via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 15:17:51 UTC, Moritz Maxeiner wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 13:15:41 UTC, Ryion wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: The following are a must: no large install footprint Visual Studio Code seems to be what you need.

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 13:15:41 UTC, Ryion wrote: On Sunday, 27 August 2017 at 10:05:29 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: The following are a must: no large install footprint Visual Studio Code seems to be what you need. [...] Relative low memory footprint for the functionality (

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Ryion via Digitalmars-d
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

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Ecstatic Coder via Digitalmars-d
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

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d
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

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d
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

Re: Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Dukc via Digitalmars-d
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

Editor recommendations for new users.

2017-08-27 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d
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,