[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 07:32:48PM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 16:50:50 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> >After I have switched to Gnome Shell I can't use any other desktop
> >manager comfortably.
> 
> This is actually feel about my custom setup based on the Blackbox
> window manager. It has a lot of little differences from the other
> common options:
> 
> 1) sloppy focus. omg it is so much better than click to focus

Back when I was still using a GUI, sloppy focus was one of the only
things that made it tolerable to use.

<rant>
Have you ever tried to configure sloppy focus on Windows? I have. I
don't know if it's still possible, but there used to be a setting for
this. Unfortunately... EVERYTHING breaks once you turn it on. And by
everything, I mean, literally, EVERYTHING. You've no idea how much
click-to-focus is unconsciously assumed by just about every Windows app
that ever existed. When that assumption breaks, all the flaws and
misdesigns of typical badly-written GUI code come to the forefront.
Don't try it at home; it will leave you scarred for life.
</rant>


> 2) no click to raise. omg it is so much better, I actually have
> control over the window's z-order! And alt+click to move windows is
> soooo convenient.
> 
> 3) my hotkeys rock. Keyboard control over moving, sizing, hiding,
> etc., and a one press hotkey to launch my beloved rxvt.

In ratpoison it's a two-key combination to launch a terminal, and of
course I have that defaulted to rxvt-unicode.


> 4) I have both the roll up (shading) option and the disappearing
> (iconification/minimize) option, as well as multiple workspaces. KDE
> did the workspaces too, they aren't that special, but being able to
> get a window off the taskbar when I want to is pretty sweet.

<rant about inability to do this in Windows deleted/> ;-)


> also shading it while keeping focus and being able to manipulate
> another window with the mouse at the same time can be pretty boss.

Cool.


> 5) The menu, which I rarely use since rxvt rox, is on right click
> anywhere on the background. No space used by a start button or quick
> launch, so I can have my typical 20+ windows open at once and not
> crowd up the taskbar to uselessness.
[...]

Heh. I just use 'bg', 'jobs', and 'fg' on a single terminal. :) Usually,
though, I have a bunch of terminals open, each dedicated to a specific
purpose, and within each a number of suspended jobs managed by the
aforementioned commands.


T

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