IDE

Editor Features

• Project

• Quick lookup file

  • For a big project, you need to have a way to open file.

    • Highlight to lookup

    • Type file name to lookup

• Quick key

  • Quick insert boilerplate/snippet codes.

  • Emmit: Emmit Cheat Sheet

• Function/Definition lookup

  • Only good for long coding

• Search

  • Search current file

  • Search folder/project

• Debug, breakpoints

• Indentation

  • How to use tab key.

  • How to continue to indent in the next line of code.

• Coding style

• Variable checking

  • Typo is just your foe and friend.

• Refactor

• Error code highlighted

• Spell Checker

  • If you are working on HTML/Markdown, you need to verify your spelling.

Applications

Open source with full features.

• Visual Studio Code

  • Run django inside visual studio code

  • Theme

    • I like to use Dark Theme

    • Global zoom.

• Eclipse

  • It's clumsy UI for good old days,

  • Not so good in zooming.

Diff

WinMerge

Plain Text Editor

• Notepad++ (Windows only)

  • Plugs

    • JSTools

      • To validate JSON.

    • MarkdownView++

      To view markdown and export.

  • Theme

    • Pick your own dark theme.

    • Unfortunately, some of components cannot apply theme, since it's base one windows APIs.

      Console

• vi

  • Use it when ssh.