#Install gedit on mac code#
#Install gedit on mac windows#

TextMate has plenty of icing on the cake, like defining your own snippets, built-in help command for nearly any common language (C, HTML, PHP, JavaScript just put the cursor over a function call and hit ^H).Īnyway, that's the general idea of what I look for in an editor. When you're thinking faster than you can type, you don't want to have to hassle hitting backspace all the time when writing jQuery code. Auto-outdent is less common, but I require it lately.

Recognizing what type of file I'm editing is key. In general, in a coding text editor I look for the basics first: syntax coloring, auto-indent, smart indent.

#Install gedit on mac windows#

Otherwise if I'm ever coding or scripting on Windows or Linux, I prefer Geany. It's super powerful once you delve beneath the surface of it and get into the nuts and bolts of it. I used to toy around with Ubuntu but switched to Mint mostly due to its super clean interface and menu system.įor programming on a Mac, I use TextMate and feel it's money well-spent. I'm not against an IDE, it's just that in practice beginners have a hard time learning a language and an IDE at once. The IDE speeds up your development when you understand what you're doing, in the beginning it may well work against you. Just because Eclipse suggests fixes in a certain order does not mean #1 in that solves your problem.

#Install gedit on mac code#

You'll have to keep thinking yourself how the source code needs to be fixed and not rely on an IDE initially. If something doesn't work, they're unable to determine where the problem is or they think that auto-complete / auto-fix in Eclipse will automatically fix their problems for them. That may be your experience but my experience as teaching assistant tells me beginners have a hard time distinguishing a problem with their tools from a problem with their compiler / language / syntax. If you prefer a nice editor or IDE with auto-complete, code hints, etc., then that's fine too. If you're comfortable doing so, then great. There is absolutely no reason to work in a very 'slim' environment with a low-tech editor. Learning to program in general is much more important and having a nice environment to learn in can be very helpful and encouraging for beginners. Just because you should learn to use the command line at some point doesn't mean you should be forced to start there.