Recommended editors.

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Which editors do you recommend?

A heated question, oft asked in the nether of SO Chat. It's at the end, of course, a matter of taste and usage: Some editors are better than others at some things, some things are only possible in some editors.

So here's a list of editors and IDEs which we of room 17 use and can recommend, sorted alphabetically.

For beginners

Most importantly, here's a very short list of (free!) editors which are recommended for beginners to scripting or web-dev (i.e. no compiling necessary), aimed at people who just got into JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Bash, etc and want to get a feel of things. Just pick one and have fun!

Linux

• gedit / KWrite
• Geany / Kate
• medit

Mac

• TextWrangler
• (I don't know of any others, please edit me)

Windows

• Edit Plus
• Notepad++

The Meat

Here's The List. Feel free to edit yourself in if you can recommend an editor - just put a link to your username and why you recommend it. Also feel free to add editors. Just keep things sorted alphabetically.

Cross-Platform

• Atom

• Hackable text editor.

• Recommended by:

  • monners: Build on web tech, incredibly easy to customize, extend, hack.

• Brackets

• An editor which understands web design.

• Recommended by:

  • Add yourself here?

• Emacs

• Extensible, general-purpose editor and more.

• Recommended by: - Florian Margaine: A short sentence on why you recommend it - Zirak: It gives you a platform and power to do anything you can dream of.

• Sublime Text

• Sophisticated editor for code, markup and prose.

• Recommended by:

  • Awal Garg: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1451893
  • Loktar
  • rlemon: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1451516
  • Some Guy: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1451711
  • SomeKittens: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1451520

• Vim

• Advanced editor improving on the original vi.

• Recommended by:

  • copy
  • ssube: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1452075

• Visual Studio Code

• VS Code is a new type of tool that combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. Code provides comprehensive editing and debugging support, an extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.

• Recommended by:

  • Luggage
  • ssube

• Web Storm

• Lightweight yet powerful JavaScript IDE.

• Recommended by:

  • Benjamin Gruenbaum: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1451539
  • Madara Uchiha
  • ssube: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1452075

Linux

• Builder

• A new IDE for GNOME.

• Recommended by:

  • Awal Garg: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1451893]

• Geany

• Small and fast GTK2 IDE.

• Recommended by:

  • dystroy: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1452830

• Kate

• Fast, feature-rich text editor for KDE.

• Recommended by

  • Add yourself here?

Mac

• Coda

• Fast, clean, powerful text editor.

• Recommended by:

  • Add yourself here?

• Text Mate

• (no catchy one liner, edit me)

• Recommended by:

  • phenomnomnominal

Windows

• Notepad++

  • Source code editor and Notepad replacement.
  • Recommended by:
    • Add yourself here?

• Visual Studio

• (they don't have a catchy one liner, edit me)

• Recommended by:

  • Benjamin Gruenbaum: https://gist.github.com/Zirak/9999e97e01a7bd0a76f6#comment-1451539

Specific Stuff

Herein lie editors which are really good for specific tasks.

• RStudio (Free/Payed, Cross Platform)

• Powerful IDE for R.

• Recommended by:

  • Zirak: It's the shit. As if R wasn't fun enough.

• TeXstudio (Free, Cross Platform)

• Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.

• Recommended by:

  • Zirak: Makes writing LaTeX less of a rollercoaster ride in hell.

Emacs: I was surprised to find a text editor.

gedit: Simple and easy-to-use texteditor.

You need the comment of suggest editor.
Love too Kwrite, editor with perfect colour and "contest assist" but is only for Linux/Debian.
Zirak you had a good idea for build this page

vim, chrome developer tools, notepad++
thats what i frequently use for editing (yes.. you can use vanilla chrome as editor)

You can add my name as "Recommended by" at the Notepad++.

I love atom for any web dev language. I like VS code for things like java and c++

I use and recommend free cross-platform editor - Codelobster