So let’s say you want to make variable b a function. Along with syntax highlighting, Atom automatically gives you a pair of brackets when you type one. I don’t quite remember why I switched (but I suspect Bart influenced me) because I started using the free Atom from atom.io/… next. It’s not a bad thing but instead they’re now shipping their flagship product, BBEdit with a free mode (a la Text Wrangler) and additional functionality for the paid for product. I should mention that Text Wrangler has been deprecated by Bare Bones. Text Wrangler also lets you fold up sections of code which is pretty handy when you’re trying to find and compare code from two different spots in your code. In Text Wrangler if you cross over one (using the arrow keys to go past it) the matching brace will briefly highlight. It’s also hard to keep track of which ones start and end something. One of the hard things in programming is to remember to close your brackets (parentheses, squirley brackets, etc). In this post, were comparing free Atom, Brackets, Visual Studio Code, Notepad++++, Vim, and eMacs text editors, as well as paid Sublime Text 3, BBEdit. In learning programming it also helps me understand what’s a real programming word and what’s a made up variable. It really helps you find typos because if you misspell something it jumps out at you. Syntax highlighting identifies variables and statements by a color, strings with another color, etc. It has syntax highlighting which is pretty essential. My favorite feature is that it lets me log into my web server and edit files directly. I started with the free Text Wrangler from Bare Bones Software. But it wouldn’t be a NosillaCast story if I didn’t walk you through the problems to be solved and how I arrived at that decision, would it? I tried out and abandoned 4 text editors before settling on CodeRunner. I thought about that because I’ve been doing the same thing with text editors while learning JavaScript from Bart in Programming By Stealth. Same memory efficiency issues as Atom or any web browser. By far the most powerful and best maintained of the fully free editors. It doesn’t look very Mac but it doesn’t look terrible. VSC is an extremely powerful application, with some amazing extendible libraries. He eventually just picked one and got on with his life. A slightly better clone of the original Electron code editor, Atom. He realized that he could have been actually getting some stuff done if he hadn’t spent all that time on the tool. I remember years ago my good friend David Roth telling me how much time he spent trying to find the perfect Getting Things Done app.
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