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In Harry Potter, Garrick Ollivander stated that "the wand chooses the wizard". The same is true of text editors. In this challenge you're going to let a text editor choose you. Time ~1hour
Depending on the operating system that you're using, you'll have different options available to you in terms of which text editor you can install.Some of these editors are not free, but we've listed them because they're robust and available for a short period in a trial mode. Trying them out won't cost you anything financially.
I am using CoffeeCup and notepad++ and onething i am going to mention is that you have to replace context with coffeecup because context is very old one and the new software is coffeecup for editing and writing codes. hope you don't mind this was just my idea;
http://challengesdays.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/challenge-3-choose-your-weapon/
in the above link you can find my work
I've decided to swap from TextEdit to TextWrangler, it's great and feels more like a coder and helps more!
Having tried several of the editors I finally settled on Thimble by Mozilla. It allows you to code on one side of the screen while previewing the web page on the other side.
Available here: https://thimble.webmaker.org/
For those of you interested in having a Live Preview feature but using Notepad++, check out the Preview HTML plug-in. You can install it through Settings > Import > Import plugin(s).
Good luck all!
notepad++ the most populaire editor in the www and it's simple to write codes html/css and athers ^_^
It will be a cold day in.... and you will have toi pry my Notepad++ out of my cold dead hands!! - LOL
I have tried ConText once in the past, and even for a paid app, I did not like it an was not comfortable using it. Another great reason that I did not mention in my other post about Notepad++ is that it is also portable. There are times when I have actually had to work from a thumb drive and again, Notepad++ and other open source applications carried me through. To each their own I guess, but I have worked with Notepad++ for so long, anything else just seems to be unnatural to me.
I decided to stick with VIM!
I'm not a real expert on it, but I used it while taking CS50, so I'm slowly getting used to it!
I'm currently using a virtual machine with Fedora 17.
I found a nice editor yesterday. http://brackets.io/
It has live preview like on Codecademy, but much more polished interface. Really worth trying, however it requires Chrome for that functionality, so not much fun for mozilla fans.
If you are more dedicated maybe try NetBeans. Quite heavy but has very good autocompletion and such features.
Don't limit yourselves to propositions above. Web Dev is very popular lately and many interesting editors appeared.
I chose Notepad++ because it is a nice editor and it allows you to code and different language. It also has many options to choose from.
while notepad++ and others are great i have been using Homesite since 1995 and have never looked back....
On Mac I use Tincta Pro. There's the free version if anyone wants to try.
I like it because the pro version is still in an affordable price range, there are a million options for syntax coloring, and side-by-side view is extremely useful.
read a few reviews and changed my mind about giving vim a try. i've just downloaded a trial of sublime text 2 for mac... let's see!
My favourite text editor for coding is Sublime Text, it works great on Windows 7.
I really thought I could not figure this out since I couldn't figure how to comment on the first place.
But hey now it works!
Notepad++ seems like a cool user-friendly non-tech buddy program.
I'd definitely recommend it if you're such a rookie just as I am.
Love,
Ays
I use Eclipse, Sublime and most of the time VI Editor! also here is the post for the associated task - Choose Your Editor
I'll recommend and will be using Textastic (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/textastic/id572491815?mt=12)
