Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "IDE vs Text Editor" video.

  1. I'm happy with gedit :) I'm using it since I started real programming on Linux. I even enabled word completion about a year ago. At work I use an IDE, but the only features I really use are auto completion and smart renaming. But often the IDE does just it's own thing and not what I want. For example the auto completion sometimes autocompletes without me explicitly selecting an option.
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  2. The power tools don't have to be the IDE. You could also add some plugins to most editors. And for more complex stuff, you could write shell scripts, which might be even more flexible, if you have special use cases. And even if something already exists in some IDE, writing a small shell script can be more efficient if you have some experience.
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