For all the people that are text editor only, what do you do for autocomplete? I am super lazy. Once I type in the name of a function I almost never completely type out again. Then other times when working with some third party API I know what I'm looking for but I don't know the name of the function so I get the intellisense to popup so I can scroll through the list to see what I'm looking for.

Editors like Sublime, I believe, have it built-in. For vim, you'd need to install ctags, and vim can read the tags file. This, of course, requires you to map a shortcut key to execute ctag to reparse your project folder. This is why some people like vim as it's up to you to decide what that shortcut key is. Then, Ctrl+Space will open a small popup with all the symbols/words that it found. Unlike IDE's autocomplete, it's not smart enough to determine the language and the context (e.g. local/global variables, or private/protected methods). It presents all symbols to you. Sometimes, this is actually what you want.

Anyone knows of any text editor that is programmable using popular language such as python (instead of esoteric one), preferably open source, that can handle large files. up to 1 gb.

almost ALL text editor I've test choked up (as in crashed), or admitted it (Notepad++, saying the file too big), or just plain limited (atom.io currently support up to 2 MB file only).

The only "Text editor" that can open a 6xx mb text file is Microsoft Visual Studio community edition (thanks Microsoft). But macro programming is either limited via VBA, or I have to use Visual Basic or Visual C++ to write plug-ins for it.

I'm yet to test sublime, but its future doesn't looks nice, although it uses python as scripting language.

i find it slow compared to sublime. It seems to be very web oriented. With CSS peek and all that.

Anyone knows of any text editor that is programmable using popular language such as python (instead of esoteric one), preferably open source, that can handle large files. up to 1 gb.

almost ALL text editor I've test choked up (as in crashed), or admitted it (Notepad++, saying the file too big), or just plain limited (atom.io currently support up to 2 MB file only).

The only "Text editor" that can open a 6xx mb text file is Microsoft Visual Studio community edition (thanks Microsoft). But macro programming is either limited via VBA, or I have to use Visual Basic or Visual C++ to write plug-ins for it.

I'm yet to test sublime, but its future doesn't looks nice, although it uses python as scripting language.

I had come across another editor that I added to the list called Atom. Several people have switched from Sublime Text to it it seems:

https://atom.io

At least, that is another to consider.

It's made by github.

It seems a trend for these editors is that they are desktop applications based on web technologies. Perhaps that is why the feel so light. And the UI design should be more customizable. They are also extensible.

Anyone knows of any text editor that is programmable using popular language such as python (instead of esoteric one), preferably open source, that can handle large files. up to 1 gb.

Vim handles files in the oodles-of-gigabytes size space and has Python scripting extensions (ie. you can program the editor using Python).

i heard the dev of sublime is not responding and people are freaking out a bit. I like it but maybe not the best option for the future. It is closed source after all.

I'm yet to test sublime, but its future doesn't looks nice

Do you guys have a concrete source for these rumors?

Because most of the rumors seem to pre-date the last official word on the matter (this message from the developer).

i heard the dev of sublime is not responding and people are freaking out a bit. I like it but maybe not the best option for the future. It is closed source after all.

I'm yet to test sublime, but its future doesn't looks nice

Do you guys have a concrete source for these rumors?

Because most of the rumors seem to pre-date the last official word on the matter (this message from the developer).

I can't comment on the rumours, but I've read that developer posting. I don't do one-guy-closed source application. He can say that his life are full of flowers. But I don't buy it. That is my personal opinion on the matter. Maybe once he hire more developers I can treat the software more seriously.

For all the people that are text editor only, what do you do for autocomplete? I am super lazy. Once I type in the name of a function I almost never completely type out again.

Solutions based on clang are pretty common these days, YouCompleteMe being, I think, the latest and greatest. It's a real chore to install though, so I frequently don't bother.

Am I the only one around here who doesn't use VIM ?!

Whats wrong with QT ?

Whats wrong with QT?

QtCreator is great.

So long as your programming language is supported by it. And your build system is compatible with it. And so forth...