I have a confession about editors to make. I hate(!) auto-completion.
In theory it sounds great with suggestions and auto-features. In real life it’s an obstacle to overcome.
The plan is, I guess, to make me faster. But instead it slows me down. If I know what I’m going to write in a script I don’t get faster with popups and shit.
Can I tweak the auto-completion in most editors? Yes of course, but almost never enough. So I just either get more and more annoyed during the day, or I turn it off. The editor that gives me the complete control over this features gets my love.
Tags: auto-completion, settings
Posted February 3rd, 2010 by Mattias Wirf in Confessions, Editors
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I’m really starting to like it, but got stuck on how to make Netbeans use tabs for indention. Deselecting the option “Extend tabs to spaces” didn’t work for me, I still got those damn spaces (I hate indention by spaces).
I found the solution though, go to your “Options“-panel, choose the “Editor” page, select “Formatting” and set “Tab size” and “Number of spaces to indent” to the same size.
Update: More PHP’ers falling for Netbeans.
Tags: indention, spaces, tabs
Posted February 1st, 2010 by Mattias Wirf in Editors, Netbeans
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If you look in my second column I have started to make some lists to help you find your texteditor. There is lists for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. If you think some editor is missing, please feel free to make suggestions. My plans are to review all of them, but that of course will take some time to finish ;)
Tags: editorlists, Platform
Posted January 30th, 2010 by Mattias Wirf in News and blog
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Now you can get Freemind 0.9 on Xubuntu Linux (and OS X and Windows). Freemind is the free mindmapping software. I think it is great for planning and thinking sometimes. There is an old version in the Ubuntu repositories, but I had a hard time getting it to work and it couldn’t open the maps I made on my Mac or Windows (since they had later versions of the software).
I just downloaded freemind-bin-max-0.9.0_RC_6.zip and extracted, made freemind.sh executable and now I got a new version of this great little program :)
Tags: freemind, mindmapping, xubuntu
Posted January 28th, 2010 by Mattias Wirf in Linux, Other software
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The image you see below is the editor Quanta Plus on Mac OS X. It is a port of KDE WebDev and is usually run on Linux. Since I’ve been working with it for a while I tought it would be nice to get it going on Apples Mac OS X too.
Macports
I began by installing MacPorts (an “an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system”).
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Tags: kde, macports, OSX, quanta
Posted January 24th, 2010 by Mattias Wirf in OSX, Quanta
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I work a lot on an old Notebook, and today it got laptop hickups. Actually it all started years ago when the harddrive (IBM “deathstar” Deskstar) started giving “Non system disk” error. About a month ago I replaced it. Great. Happy days.
This morning when I arrived to work (2 hours late, due to error in the local traffic) I think it stopped working while I was writing to the disk, resulting in an filsystem error. I managed to fix is with the fsck from terminal, but it took a couple of hours more. Half a day gone and nothing done… but at least the laptop works again.
Tags: computers, life, trouble
Posted January 22nd, 2010 by Mattias Wirf in Hardware
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The latest months I’ve been working as an employee with Quanta on Xubuntu, and I love the way snippets is handled in Quanta Plus. They are stored as simple .txt-files, which are created when you drag selected code into the sidebar. The snippets are called “Templates”, which might be a little confusing. They also have a scope – Global, Local or Project. I mainly use Global, so I have all in the same place and can reach them. I then share the with Dropbox, making the snippets available in my OS X and Windows too.
Tags: quanta, snippets, ubuntu
Posted January 22nd, 2010 by Mattias Wirf in Editors
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Since upgrade of Linux I have a lot of problem with Eclipse in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic). First of all buttons are not possible to press any more. But I also have an issue with that it is very slow. Other people also seem to have the problem and have posted workarounds, but none of them has done the trick for me so far.
At work I use Quanta Plus instead at the moment, and I kind of like it. Would love to have it on OS X and Windows too though.
The button who wouldn't be pressed
Tags: bugs, pdt
Posted December 10th, 2009 by Mattias Wirf in Eclipse
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I just discovered that the Seamonkey browser suite has a Composer WYSIWYG-editor. At first I though it might be interesting to work in the same program as the browser. I thought it would be much better then Kompozer since the latters development seems to be standing still (?). However, looking at the comparison of the Seamonkey Composer and Kompozer at WikiPedia Seamonkey is missing support for XHTML (it produces HTML 4.01 Transitionaland won’t let me change DTD) and also for templates. To bad, would have been nice with more features. If your not going to use XHTML though, it might be a nice little editor – give it a try and see what you think.
Seamonkey with it's Composerpart
Posted August 3rd, 2009 by Mattias Wirf in News and blog
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