What's a good text editor that you can adapt to any IF language?

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Vim’s a good suggestion too. Can be difficult to get used to modal editing coming from something like gedit, though. That reminds me, regarding TextAdept:

  • It is modeless and uses familiar keyboard shortcuts (like basically any other editor or text input thing besides Vim or Emacs).

  • Code folding, snippets and macros are built-in.

  • Autocomplete and inline help are built-in, but don’t pop up automatically. Use ctrl-space for autocomplete, ctrl-h for inline help.

  • Ctags support is built in (for autocomplete, inline help, jump-to-definition).

  • You’re on your own for Twee syntax highlighting, most likely. Intersection between the two user bases is probably close to zero.

Actually, TextAdept comes with both a GUI version (GTK2/Scintilla) and a terminal version. The terminal version is more vim-ish, with mark-based selection and some less obvious keyboard shortcuts. But the GUI version is quite good.

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