I have tried to search online and there was this editor called "Atom". I have never used it before. Is it any good? I have used gedit, sublime text, visual studios and QtReader. I want a text editor like QtReader or visual studios( which shows file directories on the side of the screen) to edit text files from Git bash. Can I install QtReader or VS code for Git bash? If so how?
Thanks in advance.
Though this is not a relevant question but for terminal based you can choose from vi, nano or emacs and for app based you can choose from vscode,sublime text, ruby mine(if working on ruby projects). It's totally a choice based decision.
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I want to use some strings which are in my language (Persian) in "Sublime Text", but the editor does not show them correctly, for example:
it should be:
<title>عنوان صفحه</title>
but this is how sublime is showing it:
The encoding is set to utf-8.
What should I do to fix it?
There is This Plugin But It Does Not Work Properly
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Bidirectional%20text%20support
added by barlop
Important Note- As comments indicate, this plugin doesn't really work. People have issues copy/pasting from sublime into notepad. It's OK for viewing but that's not much of an answer.
Note, sublime with this plugin might show leters in the correct order but copy/paste in notepad and it might not so try copy/pasting in notepad first before typing a whole load in there. Also this plugin might not move the cursor in a right to left fashion. (i.e. type a letter the cursor when typing in a right to left language should move to the left)
To install,
i've tested this on ST3 portable.
if you go to the tools menu you see there's no bidirectional option
Then if you go here
https://packagecontrol.io/packages/Bidirectional%20text%20support
see it mentions
their github page here
https://github.com/praveenvijayan/Sublime-Text-2-BIDI
Click on Clone/Download then download zip
extract it and Copy the folder to the packages folder.. i.e. open sublime, do preferences..browse packages , and it gives a folder like C:\Users\harvey\Downloads\ST3\Data\Packages Paste the folder there. (maybe it's better to put it in the user subdirectory, I don't know).
Then go to the tools menu and you see bidirectional options like bidirectional text that weren't there before
And while you're at it you may want to install "package control" if it's not already installed. Go to tools..command palette.. type 'package' see if package control appears. Or go to preferences, see if there is package control listed. If not then you don't have 'package control' installed. You can install package control by going to https://packagecontrol.io/ and click install and it gives you some python code in 2 tabs, one for ST2, one for ST3, and you can paste it into your console(view..console). But it's not strictly necessary you can install the bidirectional package without doing that.
The RTL-Mirror plugin for sublime 3 will show you the correct text by hitting Ctrl+F1 on Windows and OSX and Shift+F1 on Linux. it's not the perefect solution but it helps.
For the last few years my workflow has to been use VS Code as an IDE, for coding, and Sublime Text 3 (sorry, 4) for editing plain text because of its startup speed and because VS Code would be overkill.
However, since it's pretty clear by this point that the ST devs don't intend to implement RTL support, and because I would rather not have to install a third text editor just to deal with RTL text (which there are very few of anyway), there were only two convenient options left for me to open up RTL files on Windows.
Use Windows 10's Notepad (yes, really)
This is the superior solution since the new Notepad works well, starts up faster than Sublime, and not only renders RTL text but renders it quite well. The only downside is the lack of a dark mode.
Use VS Code (or whatever your preferred IDE is)
Both free IDEs like VS Code and paid ones like PHPStorm and IntelliJ seem to support RTL out of the box, but pretty much the only good reason to do this is if you absolutely need dark mode or are not on Windows - otherwise all of them up start up far slower than Sublime, and in the case of VS Code, render RTL text worse than Notepad does (I can't speak for JetStorm IDEs on that front).
Who knows, if I find a better alternative text editor that I can move my custom theme over to I may eventually move away from Sublime completely to another editor, but until then, sticking to two editors.
I've just started doing Ruby on Rails development.
I'm trying to get the best of both worlds. I love getting around a file with just the keyboard like I can with vim. But opening up and find the files from the command line is a drag.
I'd love to be able to click a file open in Aptana and then be able to navigate around it with vim commands to do my actual editing.
I haven't been able to find any definitive solution for getting this working on a mac. I tried installing software for it with Aptana under Help >> Install new software as linked to from here: http://satyavvd.blogspot.com/2010/05/aptana-studio-with-vi-emulation.html but the link is 2 years old I couldn't figure out how to get it running.
Has anybody out there gotten this to work?
I'm using Aptana 3.2.2
You know you can right click on a file and choose which editor to use, do you? Or assign any editor -- internal or external -- to any filetype in Aptana's preferences?
Aptana is based on Eclipse so all the Vi(m) plugins that work in one are probably going to work in the other.
Take a look at these five plugins:
Vrapper
A "regular" Eclipse editor with many Vi(m) key-bindings.
viPlugin
Idem, payware.
Viable
Idem, payware.
vimplugin
Run Vim inside of Eclipse/Aptana. I don't think that it works on a Mac.
eclim
Eclipse and Vim talking through a server.
But if you only want a more convenient way to open files in Vim I can't recommand CtrlP enough. You could also try the similar but different FuzzyFinder, LustyExplorer or Command-T) or you could get more familiar with Vim's :e **/foo<Tab>.
Can anyone suggest an equivalent of BBEdit for linux and win in terms or multifile search and replace as well as html cleanup, formatting, etc.?
So far I tried NotePad++ and jEdit with limited luck.
Thanks in advance
On *nix, the only real equivalent is Vim, with a host of plugins to fill the gap. I struggled with the same issue and made a git repo that hold the configs that make Vim more BBedit-like.
The README on the repo will tell you more about the plugins involved. A script is provided for installation and config. I am currently reviewing the NERDtree plugin to add doc-browser-like sidebar to the layout.
The closest thing to BBedit that I've seen on Linux is Sublime.
on Windows CodePad
on Linux/Other Vim
on Mac buy BBEdit(I use it)
Atom, Sublime and VSCode are very good, modern, and cross platform (all three run on Linux, Windows and Mac):
https://atom.io/
https://www.sublimetext.com/
https://code.visualstudio.com/
They all have a rich package base. In particular, my personal favourite is Sublime, because it is SO fast.
Notepad++ is my favourite on Windows http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Nano Editor (http://nano-editor.org) on Linux easy to use works with most common *nix distro's and with Cygwin can also run on Windows.
Notepadqq its a powerhouse like Notepad++, Atom is also good very extensible and LimeText if you can get a port to work.
Thanks for letting me know I can change my posts this way. I am actually done with adding the project manager to my liking but now I am trying to ad snipmate to my plugins now entirely sure how though.
The project plugin needs a project file in your $HOME directory called .vimproject. A sample entry could be as follows on Windows (if you're using linux, replace vimfileswith .vim):
VIMSTUFF="~/vimfiles" CD=. flags=r {
../_vimrc
../_gvimrc
plugin/my_plugin.vim
after/syntax/c.vim
}
This project holds all my vim related files that I created such as my_plugin.vim and after/syntax/c.vim.
To edit the .vimprojects file, open up vim and press F12 which will toggle the project window.
The documentation of the project plugin provides a few samples that will guide you how to start.
I have spent lot of time doing research on VIM. I am Windows guy since last 6 yrs and was using VS.
Now started working on Linux. I want to make VIM as close as possible to VS.
I want features like
Project Navigation
Files in Different Tabs
Search in Project
AutoCompletion
I have found plugins for the above requirements
Project Pligin
MiniExplore
Taglist
OmniComplete
I am not able to correctly set vimrc script.
When I try to open file from Project it gets open in different tabs.I want to get it open in different buffers.
Also when I want to close file in buffer , complete window gets closed.
Open taglist and project window makes all mess.
Has any one done settings with these plugin..
Could you guys please post your vimrc files??
It will save lot of time for newbies like me..
Vim is a very different tool than Visual Studio. Plugins may help you get certain bits of functionality you desire, but do not expect them to work exactly like VS, work well together, or even work at all.
If you are looking for a programming environment more like Visual Studio, there are many good graphical IDE's you can use such as NetBeans, Eclipse, Code::Blocks, KDevelop, Anjuta, etc. Some of these tools are, IMHO, better heavyweight IDE's than Visual Studio, and all are available on Linux for free.
You should either learn to use Vim the way it was built to be used, or find a different tool that suits you better. Shoehorning Vim into a surrogate for Visual Studio will probably cause you more pain than it's worth.
Yes it's different to VS, but that doesn't mean it can't be used in the same way. It's just not as easy to do it :)
Personally I go the other way and use ViEmu to get VS to behave like VIM. But I'm not in the same situation as the author of this question.
Why not have a dig through some uploaded vimrc files on dotfiles.org?
You can use the following script, Trinity.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2347
It will require 3 more scripts, and Vim will look like an IDE.
The TagList at left, a file exporer (NERDTree) at right, and Source Explorer at bottom.
Also, you can find some very useful blog entries at
http://kevin-berridge.blogspot.com/search/label/vim
The author, Kevin, explains how to compile solutions form inside Vim. He also shows interfacing and jumping between them which is very useful too.
Furhermore, there is the script vim-visual-studio which can be found at
http://code.google.com/p/vim-visual-studio/
This script is using Python extension. I have Python 2.5 installed in Windows. I am using Gvim 7.2 which is compiled with Python 2.4. So, I have replaced the executables of Gvim as explained here:
http://www.gooli.org/blog/gvim-72-with-python-2526-support-windows-binaries/
So, Gvim became compatible with Python 2.5 and raised no problems. Also, a menu entry "Visual Studio" has appeared as expected. It connects to Visual Studio itself, and it works perfectly. It does not just compiles a file, it can compile a solution containing more than one project as in Visual Studio. You can even use the Vim's 'quickfix' feature. Hope this helps.
If you really want to have vim as the front end, try Eclim. It uses Eclipse as a backend daemon for code completion and project management, and vim as the interface.
If you only like vim because of the vi key bindings, but want it to be more IDE like, you could try the latest MonoDevelop that has it built in.
These plugins used to exist long before vim had tabs. I'd be quite surprised there isn't a way to tune these plugins to split windows instead of opening tabs.
Now I can't help you much as I don't use these specific plugins but other ones. You should look at their help (:h project, :h taglist, etc)
PS: in vim terminology (it will help you browse the help files), what you call "buffer" is actually called "window", while a "buffer" is just the text you are working on, it may be associated to a file, or not. For a given buffer, there may be no or several window displaying parts of the buffer.
you can give a try to eXvim
http://code.google.com/p/exvim/