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Re: Text Editor for code.

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geicogeko is not online. geicogeko
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19 Feb 2012 10:26 AM
Which is better, the free notepad++, the shareware Sublime Text 2, or the free SciTE? I kinda like Sublime Text 2 but is it worth 60 dollars to licence?

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19 Feb 2012 10:27 AM
Use the infinite free trial on Sublime?

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geicogeko is not online. geicogeko
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19 Feb 2012 10:32 AM
The Developers worked hard to make it, they deserve to be paid for their work.

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JulienDethurens is not online. JulienDethurens
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19 Feb 2012 10:33 AM
I'd suggest SciTE. But not the one that comes with Lua for Windows, the latest version, from the scite website.

The one that comes with Lua for Windows is outdated. The newest one is much nicer in my opinion.
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geicogeko is not online. geicogeko
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19 Feb 2012 10:37 AM
I like the syntax highlighting on SciTE, but sublime has good highlighting and some really cool features like minimap and just an overall good look.

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19 Feb 2012 10:40 AM
The highlighting isn't really important, as you can change it for every editor and customize it to what you want.

As for the minimap, it is nice, but, do you really need a minimap?
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geicogeko is not online. geicogeko
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19 Feb 2012 10:43 AM
True... but doesn't stravant use sublime too?

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19 Feb 2012 10:43 AM
"The Developers worked hard to make it, they deserve to be paid for their work."

So you think that they deserve to be paid for their work... but you aren't going to pay them? At any rate, given that it's a pretty high cost I'm sure they would understand your not paying for it at the moment.
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19 Feb 2012 10:46 AM
True, I am evaluating it, I'll but the licence when I get 60 bucks.

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19 Feb 2012 10:46 AM
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19 Feb 2012 10:47 AM
I personally use Notepad++ and customize my syntax highlighting to make it look decent as well as adding in a bunch of Roblox constructors to be highlighted. My personal preference.

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19 Feb 2012 10:49 AM
I agree with enumeration, the syntax highlighting and ui are very good, plus linux support and unlimited per user license.

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19 Feb 2012 10:52 AM
I love sublime <3
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19 Feb 2012 10:53 AM
Hum, you know, the exact same syntax highlighting is available for Notepad++ and Gedit too... and many other editors..

As for Linux support, Gedit and SciTE both have that.

And as for unlimited licenses, well, Gedit, SciTE and Notepad++ are all open source, so that's not exactly a problem.


Black backgrounds and all that are impressive, but you can get them in other editors too, you know...
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19 Feb 2012 10:57 AM
"The Developers worked hard to make it, they deserve to be paid for their work."

If you can afford it, buy it.
If you can't, buy it when you can.
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geicogeko is not online. geicogeko
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19 Feb 2012 10:57 AM
True, but in my opinion sublime has a good ui. Call me a n0b but me gusta.

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JulienDethurens is not online. JulienDethurens
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19 Feb 2012 10:59 AM
I agree that it has a good UI. But, when you code, what really changes how fast and how effectively you code? The editor itself, or its UI?

Whether it has rounded corners and all that or not won't really change much about how productive you are.
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19 Feb 2012 11:00 AM
Sublime sounds good, I ought to try it.
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geicogeko is not online. geicogeko
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19 Feb 2012 11:02 AM
@Varp, pretty much.

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19 Feb 2012 11:02 AM
"As for Linux support, Gedit and SciTE both have that."

But gedit is a pretty rudimentary editor, it's designed to work everywhere and be simple, if you want to do more heavy-weight stuff in it it's not so good. Of the bunch of free editors the best one feature-wise is Notepad++, but I can't use it on Linux.
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19 Feb 2012 11:03 AM
While we're on the topic, is there any text editor that has an output of some kind that can use print() and display syntax errors?

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19 Feb 2012 11:04 AM
Stravant, it works just fine with wine.

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19 Feb 2012 11:06 AM
@Stravant

Notepad++ is eliminated from my choices, precisely, as it isn't cross-platform. Considering I spend most of my time on GNU/Linux, I just can't use it.

As for Gedit, it isn't that much rudimentary. I'm currently using it with the Oblivion theme, which gives me a black background. I'm also using the snippets plugin and I've defined my own snippets for ROBLOX lua so I can quickly do some things (I've even added a snippet for my with function so I can use it quickly).

It also has auto completion and can automatically put matching braces and all that for you.


It isn't really that rudimentary, if you ask me.
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19 Feb 2012 11:10 AM
"While we're on the topic, is there any text editor that has an output of some kind that can use print() and display syntax errors?"

That would be easy enough to make for any editor that has an extension API. Just loadstring the source every so often to check for syntax problems.
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19 Feb 2012 11:12 AM
"While we're on the topic, is there any text editor that has an output of some kind that can use print() and display syntax errors?"

The command line. Compile lua 5.1 and use it in the command line. That's probably the best way to do it, really. There isn't really a point in being able to do it directly in the editor, trust me.

Gedit has a Python console, but no Lua console. You could probably find some plugin that allows you to get a normal console, and then, you could easily initiate a Lua console by just typing 'lua'.

Sublime Text also has a console, but I'm not sure how it works.

As for SciTE, you can easily edit the options so it lets you run files of any kind with any application, so you can make it able to run the current file as a Lua file. So you could just create a file and use it as a "console".
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