On Jan 8, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Ross McKay <rosko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Skip Evans wrote:
I used Kate on Ubuntu for a code editor. I just read through a bit
about
Geany (was not familiar with it), but don't see too much more it
would
do for me than Kate.
What are some of your favorite features of Geany I should be aware
of?
There's probably not much that Geany does that Kate doesn't, to be
frank
(other than run on Windows too). OTOH, there are many things that Kate
does that Geany doesn't.
However, being built on GTK, Geany is a little quicker, especially now
that Kate's gone all KDE4. Certainly, when I was running on a P-III @
666MHz, Kate was frustratingly sluggish while Geany was very quick and
responsive. Thinking about it now, that's probably why I picked Geany
over the other options at the time.
John Corry wrote:
Kate for PHP development? That sounds really slow and inefficient.
Eclipse and Zend studio offer such efficiencies as code
completion/hints (PHP core or any other included classes/files), code
explorer views/trees, SVN/CVS support, debugging...very capable IDEs.
Geany has basic code completion hints for built-in functions, and
file-by-file code explorer views but not a project-wide code explorer.
For me, feature-rich IDEs mean more stuff I need to remember and fight
with, and that's a problem these daze. I do a fair bit from the shell,
including most SVN ops. Small and fast, with snippets, and regex
search
and replace, is pretty much all I need. Except when debugging (for
which
I've been using NetBeans). Hmmm... must do something about that some
day.
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- The Wee Book of Calvin
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If it helps you any, we use geany at the place I work for all of our
major framework development and I love it. It's lightweight, and isn't
bloated with crap you'll never use. :)
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