[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Sun Sep 15 22:01:49 PDT 2013
On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 17:18:21 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
> On 13/09/13 21:48, Namespace wrote:
>> Just out of interest.
>>
>> I use Sublime 2, Notepad++ and as IDE currently Mono-D. But I
>> will try this
>> evening VisualD.
>
> Vim, on Ubuntu. :-)
>
> The actual reason is rather trivial. I've always favoured a
> mixed tab-space indent style for code ("tabs for indentation,
> spaces for alignment"), as described here:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs
>
> Unfortunately, most text editors don't seem to support this
> very well any more.
> In KDE 3 both Kate and KDevelop used to support it well, but
> since KDE 4 came out it seems to have been dropped. If you
> search "mixed tab-space indentation" you'll even come across a
> rather forlorn post of mine from the time on the Ubuntu Forums
> trying to sort this out:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1475867
>
> Vim and Emacs seem to be the only editors where it's readily
> possible to implement this these days, and vim is easier to
> use, so it wound up being the only choice.
>
> The irony is that given that standard D style is a 4-space
> indent, these days I've turned off the mixed tab-space style,
> for D at least ... but I'm still using vim, and I even find
> myself accidentally hitting vim-style commands if I use another
> editor to code.
>
> I did go through a period of using CodeBlocks for my official D
> contributions, with the 4-space style, and vim for my private
> projects, with mixed tab-space style; but eventually I decided,
> OK, D style is D style, follow the standard in all cases, and
> just went to vim for everything.
>
> I still do mixed tab-space for C/C++ though. Yes, I know.
> Burn the witch. :-)
What do you use to do that in vim ? All my attempts did fail.
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