On Jul 4, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2013-07-04 05:02, Dave Angel wrote: > [snip an excellent list of things to look for in an editor] > > Also, > > - the ability to perform changes in bulk, especially across files. > Often, this is done with the ability to record/playback macros, > though some editors have multiple insertion/edit cursors; others > allow for performing a bulk-change command across the entire file > or list of files. > To Tim's and Dave's excellent lists let me add one more feature that I find useful: the ability to bulk-search through all files in a folder/directory/project for a word or phrase, display the hits and then selectively or optionally do a replace on each hit in the displayed list. In effect, this is an interactive extension of the bulk search and replace Tim lists above. > - folding (the ability to collapse multiple lines of text down to one > line). Especially if there are various ways to do it (manual > folding, language-block folding, folding by indentation) Yes, yes, yes. It may simply be a reflection of my poor programming style (grow by accretion, wait way too long to refactor), but this is a big help in following program logic. > > - multiple clipboard buffers/registers > > - multiple bookmarks > > - the ability to interact with external programs (piping a portion of > a file through an external utility) > And in particular, the ability to preview a chunk of html in a browser. > - a good community around it in case you have questions > > - easy navigation to "important" things in your file (where > "important" may vary based on file-type, but may include function > definitions, paragraph boundaries, matching > paren/bracket/brace/tag, etc) > > Other nice-to-haves include > > - split window editing > - tabbed windows > - Unicode support (including various encodings) > - vimgolf.com ;-) > >> Candidates? >> emacs - standard on most OS's, available for Windows from > > And I'll put in a plug for Vim. > > -tkc > > > > > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
