[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 16 00:43:00 PDT 2013


On Sep 16, 2013 4:50 AM, "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 04:04:24AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> > On Monday, 16 September 2013 at 01:48:31 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > >Have you ever tried to configure sloppy focus on Windows?
> >
> > yup. It kinda works until you get the idiot apps that raise
> > themselves whenever they get focus! Which are a lot of them. Ugh.
>
> Exactly. A major annoyance when you're trying to type something while
> looking at something else in another window for reference.
>
>
> [...]
> > >Heh. I just use 'bg', 'jobs', and 'fg' on a single terminal. :)
> >
> > Yeah, I do that sometimes too, but you can get output mixed
> > together! And you can't easily watch for updates without that. So I
> > like to use windows and gnu screen. The windows actually come and
> > go, as I just reattach a running screen session when needed.
>
> GNU screen is pretty awesome. But it has some warts that makes me not
> use it by default:
>
> - Its default escape sequence is extremely annoying (ctrl-A clashes with
>   bash's go-to-beginning-of-line, which I use literally *all* the time).
>   Switching it to something like ctrl-U makes it more tolerable.
>
> - It doesn't seem to pick up terminal settings correctly sometimes.
>   Which results in needing to set $TERM manually, or type
>   `TERM=rxvt-unicode program args`, instead of just `program args`.
>   Quite annoying.
>
>

Someone did suggest an alternative to GNU screen that is being actively
developed on (GNU Screen is kinda regarded as unmaintainable) but I forget
the name of it.

Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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