Last Meeting Editors

editors

Attendance : 9

Overview of different editors
most useful, and resources on how to get started using that particular editor)

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Emacs: Jess
Sublime: Bill
Vim: Many
Gedit: Dav

Jess Hamrick started with Emacs

suggested the homebrew version os cocoa emacs for MacOSX

####The bad * high initial learning curve * plugins can be buggy * bad package management * customization written in elisp

####The good * emacswiki.org * supports many languages (Python, Latex, GIT Markdown) * Terminal mode * plugin for ipython notebook * scratch buffer for prototyping * Jedi for auto completion * [nipy tricked out emacs] (http://nipy.sourceforge.net/devel/tools/tricked_out_emacs.html) * pycheckers for integrating * magit Git interface

Dav Clark Gedit via virtualbox

Used virtualbox + vagrant to run ubuntu and gedit on OSX

github resources for vagrant

gedit and related packages need to map to outside folder, but this is easy to set up
preferences
set up default preferences by choosing preferences form File menu
easily choose relevent modules (eg smart spaces)
great tool for beginners and teaching
syntax highlighting

Bill Sprague Sublime

The bad

not opensource need a license ($70)
though!! public beta for verson 3 license is not required

The good

sublime works on all platforms
faster and less bloated than Vim
powerful GUI interface
multiple ways to edit text * command pallate is amazing (has fuzzy searching for all commands making it trivial to find command you want) * good keyboard shortcuts classic mode with vim keyboard shortcuts, good for transition * setup files are json script, easy to edit * many add on packages which are easy to install * has project mode for searching within projects * good for multipurpose cleaning of text files