Top "Editor" questions

This tag is for questions about the features and functionality of text editors, source code editors and other programs specifically designed for modifying plain text files used in computer programming.

call up an EDITOR (vim) from a python script

I want to call up an editor in a python script to solicit input from the user, much like crontab …

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Carbon vs. Aqua vs. Cocoa Emacs builds

There seem to be a few camps when it comes to Emacs on OSX; Carbon versus Aqua Emacs. It seems …

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Trouble on setting the git 'core.editor'

I am trying to set git on my Mac Os Snow Leopard 10.6.7 but I made some errors on doing that... …

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.NET WinForms HTML editor component

We're looking for a .NET component for HTML editing in WinForms. I've seen this post, and that's kind of what …

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Intellij Idea How to add interface implementation to classes?

For example I have many classes than implement my interface. After adding new method definition in the interface, how can …

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What's The Best Way To Write Multi-Line Code Snippets In VS-Code?

In Sublime Text, multi-line code snippets can be defined with white-spaces in a snippet file. But as far as I …

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How do I keep IntelliJ from closing my Editor Tabs automatically?

When opening more than 10 Editor Tabs, IntelliJ automatically closes my least used Tab each time I open a new Tab. …

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Visual block edit in vim

I have refer to this post to use block editing in vim. But when I key I or c after …

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Reasons for using command line Vim versus GUI Vim

Background I'm building an application where it detects what documents you're using from the file system. To do this it …

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