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What LaTeX editor do you suggest? Could you please give me some links?
I use TeXMaker. If you're using Ubuntu, it should be in the apt-get repository. To install texmaker, run:
sudo apt-get install texmaker
Gummi is the best LaTeX editor. It is a free, open source, cross-platform, program, featuring a live preview pane.
http://gummi.midnightcoding.org/
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I normally use Emacs (it has everything you need included).
Of course, there are other options available:
Kile is KDE's LaTeX editor; it's excellent if you're just learning or if you prefer the integrated environment approach;
Lyx is a WYSIWYG editor that uses LaTeX as a backend; i.e. you tell it what the text should look like and it generates the corresponding LaTeX
Cheers.
In Linux it's more likely that extensions to existing editors will be more mature than entirely new ones. Thus, the two stalwarts (vi and emacs) are likely to have packages available.
EDIT: Indeed, here's the vi one:
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/
... and here's the emacs one:
http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
I have to say, I'm a vi man, but the emacs package looks rather spiffy: it includes the ability to embed preview images of formulas in your emacs buffer.
Honestly, I've always been happy with emacs. Then again, I started out using emacs, so I've no doubt that it colours my perceptions. Still, it gives syntax highlighting and formatting, and can easily be configured to build the LaTeX. Check out the TeX mode.
There is a pretty good list at linuxappfinder.com.
My personal preference for LaTeX on Linux has been the KDE-based editor Kile.
When I started to use Latex, I used Eclipse with the texlipse plugin. That allowed me to use the same environment in Linux and Windows, has some auto completion features and runs all tools (latex, bibtex, makeindex, ...) automatically to fully build the project.
But now I switched. Eclipse is large and slow on my PCs, crashes often and shows some weird behaviour here and there. Now I use vim for editing and make in collaboration with a self written perl script to build my projects.
Using cygwin I am still able to use the same work flows under Linux and Windows.
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Some days ago I found a great project: vs-android.
It allows you to build Android projects from Visual Studio, and run them in emulator.
This is very cool, because of I like to develop in vs.
So I started to find something like vs-ios =)))
I found some toolchains that allow you compile ios app, under windows, but you can't run them in emulator or on a real device.
Or these toolchains are very old.
And the other problem is that there is no ios emulator for windows.
I found that there is a DragonFire SDK which allow you to develop, compile and run your ios apps under windows.
So, It means it is possible!
I have own crossplatform game engine written in C++. And I want to try everything to develop under windows in vs =)
If there is a solution to do it, please help, even if this solution is VERY HARD to implementation.
Please, don't post unusefull links. I am really read a lot.
Tell about your experience, not about what you heard from others =)))
P. S. I want to develop only in C++. Other variants is not a solution.
Thanks!
I cannot comment on the C++ side of things, but I can explain a method that work with a valid IPA.
Once you develop an IPA file, you can upload it to iTunes, if it is set up correctly. No matter how it is created, though, to upload an app to iTunes, you need a Mac. However, you don't have to buy one . . . just use the virtual Macs hosted by http://www.macincloud.com. It is cheap and works on a PC.
You will have to use the Mac's keychain to create your certificates, but once you have the certs, you can develop the IPA file in Windows using your methods (probably) or Adobe Air (definitely). You then upload to the virtual Mac using DropBox (or other method). From there, you will have to understand the Mac iTunes uploading process, which you can find in the Apple docs.
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I'm starting a new job soon where I'm going to be developing in Ruby and Rails on a Windows machine. I haven't used Windows for years, and the likes of Textmate, Git and Bash, are an integral part of the workflow using a Mac.
So, does anybody have any suggestions or recommendations as to the best tools or work strategies to use? Or pitfalls to avoid?
In particular, of course, I'm interested in the best text editor. (I'm seriously thinking about taking the opportunity to learn Vim or Emacs, or whatever the Windows ports are called, but any other thoughts would be welcome.)
Additionally, any ideas of useful plugins, tools or programs would be appreciated.
If you think that I've completely lost my mind, then feel free to tell me too ;-)
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RubyMine is supposed to be a top notch IDE. JetBrains always makes great products.
NetBeans or e as IDEs
Here's my incredibly detailed setup guide for Windows Server 2003, which works essentially unchanged on XP Pro and Vista. See this general installation list, and modify the instructions if you get different results. They're meant for people new to programming, so they'll probably be overly explicit for your purposes.
IMO, the one thing you definitely need is a *nix-style shell. This has nothing to do with whether you like dir or ls - you need to be able to run shell scripts or you won't get very far.
git bash (comes with msysgit) is my beacon in the storm of cmd.exe windows. It's essentially bash on Windows, and lets you run almost any script that you can run on *nix. This includes all the gem command line executables.
It gets weird in a few places.
File permissions - there just isn't a great way to map between Windows ACLs and POSIX file permissions. The Cygwin people have devoted years to solving it, but it still doesn't work all the time. git bash's approach is to just not do anything when asked to do a (for example) FileUtils.chmod. That means you may need to create a few more directories by hand, and you do need to be very aware of when something is changing file permissions.
For example, when I installed the Heroku gem on Windows, it tried to set the permissions of my Heroku credentials file, which has my Heroku password in plaintext, to u+r go-rwx. You'd definitely want to change the ACLs on that file if you're on a shared machine.
Scripts vs. .bat files - I wanted to change git's default editor from vi to SCiTE (not that I don't like vi; this was for a new-user workshop and I didn't want to explain editing modes). I had to create a .bat file that was actually a shell script. See the full explanation here:
How can I set up an editor to work with Git on Windows
I am using Netbeans, which is a good overall editor (at least for me).
For simple projects I use JEdit.
You can find the link at
NetBeans IDE
You can find JEdit at JEdit
git is available on Windows: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ or http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Git_on_Windows
Basically, you need to decide whether you are going to go the Cygwin route or the MingW route. Both will provide you with Bash as well.
GVim works great. I use the native port rather than the Cygwin version.
If your development life is switching to Windows then you may want your employer to invest in this:
Ruby In Steel by SapphireSteel Software
I've used it in the past when I started tinkering with Ruby on Rails, quite nice and reasonably mature now. Also it's built on Visual Studio which I still think is one of the premier development environments around.
Maybe bring a LiveCD to work with you every morning..
you can even put it on a usb flash drive, if you use a small enough distro/big enough drive...
Cygwin as command line tool
The two best RoR IDE's I've used are NetBeans and Aptana Studio. However, for the most part I stick with Notepad++ and its various plugins (Explorer and HTML tags being two important ones).
This may not be applicable in your situation (IT restrictions, etc), but another option might be virtualization. You could install VirtualBox, VMWare, or some equivalent, and run Ubuntu (or your preferred Linux distribution, of course) that way, gaining access to the full UNIX toolset.
You didn't say whether you're using Windows voluntarily. However, this line suggests to me that maybe that's the case:
"If you think that I've completely lost my mind, then feel free to tell me too"
If you have any choice in the matter, I strongly recommend using a Unix-based system instead of Windows. If you have to go through inconvenience, spend money, or jump through hoops to avoid doing Ruby/Rails development on Windows, it will be worth it.
I've had to cope with Ruby and Rails on Windows a lot recently due to legacy systems and other developers' preferences. Rails development on a Unix-based system is much more efficient. The difference is not subtle.
That said, as others have mentioned, installing mysysgit even if you aren't using Git is helpful because it comes with Git Bash which gives you a usable bash command line.
As for text editors, I like Notepad++.
NetBeans is a really nice IDE for Rails development. Decent syntax highlighting, code completion, error highlighting. Handy keyboard shortcuts for navigation. It's pretty good.
IntelliJ IDEA
I developed in RoR under Windows for a few years, it's bearable, but Linux (or Mac) is much better for this. Lots of gems and plugins are considerably harder to install on Windows (quixml, for example).
My favorite text editor under Windows is Textpad, Eclipse is also pretty good.
If you want to use ls, find, grep... in Windows console, just download some package of their Win32 ports, install them and add to your PATH (Cygwin is definitely better, but also harder to install). You might also try out Powershell, it's supposed to be a replacement for unix command line by Microsoft.
I use virtual box, putty, and xming to do the development in an isolated linux environment. I blogged the full setup here
I've struggled a lot with Rails development on Windows. At some point I needed a specific gem that didn't work on Windows. I prefer working with a VM using Vagrant
Here's a blog post I wrote, how I setup my projects with the use of Chef and Vagrant
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what do you consider the best ide for developing ruby and rails on linux? thanks.
I guess I'll be the guy that answers "Emacs" this time.
Try Arachnoruby or Eclipse
I know it's not for Linux, but I'd say Textmate anyway, it is reason enough to get a Mac :)
To be more serious, I would recommend vi, or more precisely Vim.
It's more lightweight than anything else and still manage to do the job right, so for Linux I don't think there are any other options and for Ubuntu (and probably Debian and the rest of them) there is even a package, vim-rails, that contain a lot of scripts to ease up the development.
I don't think you need an IDE. Rails isn't that complicated, all it takes is a text editor and a terminal.
So, I recommend that you use a text editor such as emacs, vim, gedit or whatever. The KDE/Gnome terminals are more than good enough. You might want to look into using ZSH instead of bash.
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I have occasion to need to print code (Horrors!!! ;) ), and i was wondering what editor or tool would i use to print that code out with proper formatting and syntax highlighting? If it's important, it will be c# code but ideally the tool will work for as many languages as possible. Can Notepad++ or something handle this?
You can use Vim! It's probably installed already if you're on modern Linux/MacOS and an easy install if not.
:syntax will turn syntax highlighting on and :hardcopy will print it. There's syntax highlighting definitions for many languages out there. The default look is usually optimised for screen display, but you can fix that.
Simply open the file on command line with vim <filename>, type :syntax on<ENTER>, then :hardcopy<ENTER> to print it. Quit Vim with :q!<ENTER>.
There's also the :TOhtml command which will open the current selection as HTML in a new Vim window. Capture the entire document with :%y<ENTER> followed by :TOhtml<ENTER> to open it.
Yes, Notepad++ can certainly print code with syntax highlighting.
Colour printing would obviously be preferable, but on the occasions when I've printed in black and white, the subtle differences in colour [rendered as shades of grey, of course] can be difficult to distinguish.
However, I think a little customisation of the colour schemes should make this less of a problem.
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Use TextMate. It prints colored code automatically. There's no setup. Just print. In case previous or newer versions can't do this I'm using TextMate version 2.0.23
Old Answer, and the answer for people who don't have Macs:
Use vim. Its the easiest method to do it in my experience by far, that is, once you know how.
Vim comes pre-installed on Macs, btw. And I know how you special people like colors, so I'm going to make this impatientbusinessman-proof for the benefit of all.
1.) open file
vim filename.m
2.) enable syntax coloration (mine did not have enabled by default)
:syntax on
3.) print
:hardcopy
Vim will choose your system's default printer without asking you so make sure you set that up first.
4.) exit the program (this is actually not a given)
:q
http://pygments.org/ is one option. It supports a ton of languages, and since it's written as a python library, you can script the conversion process however you want.
Visual Studio will, and allows you have a completely separate configuration for printing.
I recently compared the 2 solutions already mentioned : vim & pygments. They both give great results, but there is how you can practically use them quickly:
pygments does not provide direct export to PDF. Hence, the simplest solution I found was to export to HTML and then use wkhtmltopdf. You can combine both operations using the following bash script:
src2pdf () {
local noext="${1%.*}"
pygmentize -O full -o "$noext.html" "$1"
# enabling line wrapping in <pre> blocks
perl -i -wpe '/<style.*>$/&&($_.="pre{white-space:pre-wrap;}\n")' "$noext.html"
wkhtmltopdf "$noext.html" "$noext.pdf"
rm "$noext.html"
}
for vim, it's as simple as this: TERM=xterm-256color vim '+hardcopy >out.ps' +q code.src
I found out that the $TERM environment variable can affect the output colors, so I prefer to set it explicitly.
And finally, you may need to tweak your .vimrc a little:
set printfont=:h9
set printoptions=number:y,left:5pc
The tool called enscript is very much the tool for doing this. It is very powerful, is not tied to an editor nor a language and you can create PDF's with syntax highlighting.
The documentation pretty much says it all.
enscript man page
Under unix you might want to try a2ps. It is flexible and produces nice results.
I while ago I created a household python script that wraps pygments into a small console utility. It works with any language supported by pygments.
Also if you happen to use eclipse, you could simply copy the selected text in the editor and then paste it in a RTF-aware editor like MS Word - it will preserve all the colors, fonts and formatting.
If you have problems with Visual Studio 2012 concerning the highlighted printing an handeling the described problem:
Download and install this Power Tool which implements the color
printing, besides some other features and bug fixes. Works for me!
Solution For Bash Shell
Add this line to ~/.bashrc if you are using UBUNTU
or, to ~/.bash_profile if you are using MAC
If that file does not exists, create it.
alias lprc='vim -me -c ":syntax on" -c ":hardcopy" -c ":q"'
source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.bash_profile
To print colored hello.py just do this:
lprc hello.py instead of lpr hello.py
Use ConTEXT programming editor (which is free). I am using it for both generating .pdf-s with syntax highlighted source code and printing to paper.
There are many ConTEXT syntax highlihting definitions to download and you can make your own highligher file which will BTW be highlighted using the ConTEXT Highlighter Files highlighter definition.
I do it downloading js and css files from
https://prismjs.com/
There are so many 5-7 options to select the theme and language highlighter. Once you select a theme and download the tiny js/css files the next thing you need to do is rename the code file to html, and call the css/js files. Open the html in a browser and print it. Done!
You can also use this in case you've to print with bnw syntax highlighting https://github.com/SGI-CAPP-AT2/code-highlight-n-print
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I'm not sure if many people know about this text-editor?
jEdit was kinda big in 2004, but now, Notepad++ seems to have taken the lead(on Windows)
Many of the plugins haven't been updated since 2003 and the overal layout and usage is confusing...
I'm sure jEdit has many nifty features, but I'll be damned if I can find out where to find them and how to use them. Reading that manual is a fulltime job on it's own.
I've been using jEdit for a few years now, mainly on windows, but also on Ubuntu.
I use it for: SQL, awk, batch files, html, xml, javascript...
Just about everything except .NET stuff (for which I use Visual Studio).
I love it.
summary
I use jEdit because it has the right balance for me of ease of setting up vs. features and customisability. For me, no other editor strikes quite as good a balance.
cons
It can be a bit hard to make it do the things you want.
pros
I love the plugins
Being able to define my own syntax highlighting etc. is just what I want from a text editor.
The manual is very good and quite readable. I strongly suggest reading it through to get an idea of what jEdit can do for you. (In fact, I suggest this for any software you use)
It's cross-platform. I used it just on windows for a long time, but now I also use Ubuntu, and it works there: I can even copy the configuration files over from my windows machine, and everything works. Nice.
other editors
In the past I did take a look at Notepad++, but that was a while ago, and it didn't have a nice way to define your own syntax highlighting, which is important for me. I also paid for Textmate and UltraEdit at different times (both very good), but in the end, jEdit comes out on top for me.
I also used Eclipse for a year or so. It's fantastic, and it'll do anything you want, but you have to be really into Eclipse to get the most out of it.
I've occasionally wondered about the same thing (what happened to jEdit - though I'm not sure if that was your main question).
Apparently, the main developer, Slava Pestov, left the project in 2006 (to focus on Factor, and his studies), and the jEdit development has never really picked up again after that. Which is a shame. :/ (I haven't actually followed closely, but I guess it's telling that there has not been a major release of jEdit in the last 4 and half years.)
Now, while googling around, I found some info written by Slava himself. It seems at that time he not only gave up jEdit, but developing in Java altogether, after becoming "increasingly frustrated" with the language.
I've been using jEdit since 2003ish. I use it on my Ubuntu 8.04 box at home, however it does have a few bugs: sometimes when you click on a button which opens a dialog, such as "Open File", the dialog will be completely blank.
This could be a Java thing, but it seems a strange issue.
Other than that, I'm quite happy with jEdit - it's the best general editor I've found (so far) for Linux (ducks as hordes of Vi and Emacs users light up their flame cannons)
I like the XML Editor plugin: auto-completion when you close XML (including HTML) tags, plus if you specify a DOCTYPE it gives you auto completion.
There is also a handy plugin for visually viewing diffs between two files.
jEdit is by far, my prefered editor since 2010. It has a unique set of features that I didn't found in any other:
Multi OS: Win, Linux, Mac.
Portable: Just copy a folder and it is ready to use. All settings are kept in .XML and .properties files inside jEdit subfolder. This is crucial if you don't have admin rights on your enterprise workstation.
Search-Replace: The most enhanced I've seen in a text editor: Full Regex specification with Bean Shell scripting capabilities for back references. For instance: Let's say you want to apply an increment on every number found in your text (replace 1 by 2, 10 by 11 and so on). Just search for regex "(\d+)" and replace by a Java expression "Integer.parseInt(_1) + 1". It's just a simple example, but enough to show how powerful it is.
Database: Just select your SQL statement, press a button and get the resultset from MySQL, MsSql, Oracle, Teradata and any other Jdbc compatible RDBMS. Export results to csv. Works like a multi-database command line tool. Browse and navigate on your database schema. (SQL plugin).
Customization: Here is where jEdit shines. There are tons of features. The highlight is the ability to use any java API to expand it! Access them from your Beanshell scripting macros. Example: I needed a function that decode selected text from/to mime64. No problem! I Just downloaded a library from commons.apache.org and accessed it from a jEdit macro. It's just unbeliveable how expandable jEdit can be with this feature.
Highlight: Select a word or phrase and it is highlighted right away in the entire text. The mini-map of ocurrences is shown in the scrollbar. It allows quickly find, for example, a respective css style in separated file just using the mouse. No need for Ctrl+F or type anything. It works even on ordinary txt files. (Highlight Plugin)
Plugins: FTP, XML, Text Diff, Themes, Text Tabs, Highlighter, character map, Mail, Whitespaces, Abbrevs, Minimap...there are hundreds of them.
There are dozens of other nice features that I won't describe here in order to keep this answer not too long. The complete article can be found here and the mime64 example here.
At first glance, jEdit is just another text editor. The full capabilities come into light when you start playing with it's endless customization/expansion power. My initial reluctance of accepting a java-written text editor disappeared when I realize that only a java text-editor could be so extensible. Its initial drawback turned into it's main advantage.
I have been using jEdit for the last five years. And I agree with Mr. Mahan's comment above, jEdit has reached the "just works stage" and does not really need anymore development.
I mainly use it for PHP web development and have tried everything from commercial IDEs (DreamWeaver) to php designer, NetBeans, Eclipse, Apanta and Notepad++. And nothing comes close for customization possibilities. If the plugin does not exist, chances you can whip something together with a BeanShell Macro (assuming you want to dig into Java).
On Windows I use Notepad++ as well, but mainly as a Notepad replacement (I even renamed the notepad.exe)
At the end of the day it comes down to taste. What is important to you and what will make you more productive. A distracting GUI and fluffy features can take you away from what you should be focusing on.
And to boot I have converted a few developers to jEdit along the way.
At the risk of performing necromancy:
Because of the way it's been released the last decade or so, major Linux distributions usually lag quite far behind the latest stable version. The good news is that there are repositories to install and upgrade it automatically on Ubuntu and more.
For a couple years I shared configuration files between Windows, FreeBSD and Linux without problems. That's more than I can say about any other application I've ever used.
The only issue I've heard about is that it used to be slow back in the dawn of time. Now it's really fast.
Encodings and line endings are handled more seamlessly than any other editor except IntelliJ IDEA.
Vertical editing. Just hold down Ctrl and drag to create a rectangular (or even a zero-width vertical) selection.
Better search and replace than any other editor ever except IntelliJ IDEA. I just started writing a list, but it has to be seen to be believed. Just Ctrl-f and see for yourself.
I had to use during my vocational education for XML and XSLT. It had a lot of bugs and didn't work always. I couldn't get to like it, but if I had to test some XSLT I'd give it another shot. I found Notepad++ and I am more than happy with it for what I need.
To your question: Did you take a look at jEdit's plugin list? There are some plugins released 2008 and the latest version was released on 8th August 2008.
Myeah, I just installed the 4.3pre15(latest) and it does look a bit better.
Super feature is the automatic XML DTD creation you can get from one of the plugins.
Now THAT is awsome, especially for big files
After many years, jEdit remains my favorite free validating XML editor. I love the seamless combination of XML validation with plain-text editing features such as regex search-and-replace across multiple files.
I have used jEdit for a number of years, both on PC and Mac (a bit funky on the Mac).
Currently I use it primarily as a folding editor for a number of on-going documentation notes. I have use the folding at the text indent levels - an easy way to collapse and expand file sections, without any work to set up each section.
The feature I really like are the command shortcut alternatives you can set up, the tool bar icon control, and the the abbreviation expansions. The Plugins I especially favor are the BufferTabs to display rows of file/buffer names, and the Whitespace and TextTools.
I recently loaded the GroovyScriptEngine, in part because of the syntax coloring and control for groovy. I set up 2 seperate jEdit versions, in part to maintain seperate history lists, as I update a few dozen files repeatedly.
I loved Notepad++ on windows, but when I made the switch to Mac I was left behind. Since then I have been in tune with utilities that work across multiple platforms so that is why I switched to JEdit over 2 years ago and I have been loving it ever since. It works flawlessly on my Mac, never crashes, is fast, and has many many add-ons. It is based on Java so it works on many different platforms. I think Jedit is equal to or better than Notepad++
My favorite plug-in is the FTP module. I can open, edit and save files on my FTP server just as easily as if they were local.