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An open-source cross between an IDE and a text-editor?
Atom is a very good text editor that covers your requirements.
Free and Open-Source
Code highlighting for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, and PHP. (Bonus for Python and Ruby)
Code completion ...
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Windows IDE for coding python
If you are looking for something like visual studio then why not use VSCode? It's a free source code editor form microsoft, and by installing the extensions python and a couple of others you can ...
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Is CodeBlocks still relevant or should I upgrade to a new lightweight IDE?
CodeLite is a powerful and lightweight IDE specializing in C, C++, PHP and JavaScript. Its features include:
Generic support for compilers (for example Clang)
Built-in GDB support
Database-based ...
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Javascript IDE with code completion and syntax checking
Visual Studio Code
IntelliSense provides smart completions based on variable types, function definitions, and imported modules.
Debugging Launch or attach to your running apps and debug with break ...
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Edit google apps scripts with IntelliJ-IDEA
There's also a git like tool called clasp by Gratt for local development
You might find it at home if you use git
https://github.com/google/clasp
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Ultra-lightweight editor (like Python's IDLE) for C
Sublime Text should be able to do all three of your tasks:
Basic context coloring
This generally happens automatically.
Ability to collapse {} blocks
You can do this by using the "gutter" (the ...
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Cross-platform IDE alternative to MS Visual Studio - other than Eclipse CDT
I would suggest taking a look at Code::Blocks as a possible alternative that is Free, Open Source & Cross Platform.
Your feature requests
Find and replace works like Visual Studio on Windows - ...
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Python IDE for Debian
PyCharm is available for Linux as a whole. This includes Debian. This ought to be applicable for your sort of application. You could give the community edition a try.
PyCharm 4.5.1 running under ...
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Web-based IDE for young beginner programmer
You should take a look at Coding Ground from TutorialsPoint. It’s an online collection of programming resources, tutorials, and tools. It’s free and supports lots of programming languages including ...
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Sublime Text 3 alternative to use on ARM Linux?
Try out Visual Studio Code which is an open source IDE that supports all the languages you specified with the help of extensions. I have used it on Mac, Linux and Windows and it is a great IDE with ...
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Java development environment
JDK
Java is a set of specifications, for the language and for the JVM.
To do your programming, you need an implementation of those specs. That implementation is known as a Java Development Kit (JDK).
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Editor for writing shell scripts, with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
I usually use OSes in the *nix family so this may not help:
I'm a big fan of Sublime Text and since it offers a free, unlimited trial (Windows, Mac, Linux), you don't have much to lose.
While it is ...
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IDE specifically for layout and design of regular web applications?
The new WYSIWYG editors
Good for mockuping and initial design. Bad for working on an existing app.
Macaw, Sketch, Pinegrow or even Photoshop + Brackets
✔ Provide higher abstractions in regards to ...
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Editor for Django, Angular and Ionic?
I recommend you another software from Jetbrains: IntelliJ IDEA.
it's type of "mixture" from WebStorm, PyCharm and other IDEs, so it supports both JS (AngularJS) and Python
it has a large base of ...
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Commercial Python IDE
PyCharm
Important to note that typically for commercial purchases I believe companies might opt-in to getting IntelliJ instead as to unlock all languages supported by Jetbrains. This post, however, ...
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IDE with preview of HTML, CSS and JavaScript websites
Adobe Brackets provides live previews of your pages and has a lot of convenient features for web developers. From their site:
Also, there are plugins like W3C Validation to check for errors, but I ...
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PostgreSQL database explorer
I use pgAdmin for this.
It meets your requirements as far as I can tell:
Works with Windows 7 and onwards
Has a visual tree tree with the referencing of the objects in the db
Able to write queries
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Web-based IDE for young beginner programmer
Personally I would go for python, possibly under Jupyter as a notebook, you can even try it in a browser, as in many schools it is now the first language taught, possible other python IDEs are too ...
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Good IDE for C language with code-simplification-suggestions?
Eclipse CDT is a free C/C++ IDE which has a key combination (Ctrl+Shift+O, IIRC) which will remove unused #include and add those which are missing.
Most modern compilers (such as GCC) will warn you ...
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IDE recommendations for Python 3 on Windows 10 for a beginner?
Ones that I have tried and are Free & worth taking a look, in no specific order:
VS Code with Python extensions
PyCharm Community Edition
WingIDE 101/personal (Personally I liked this enough that ...
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IDE for c++/linux that detects questionable code
Since you're already using emacs, I'm wondering if fitting one of the many open source linters onto it might be preferred over an IDE? That way's probably more flexible than an IDE, and you get to ...
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Handy Haskell IDE
A few things come to mind:
Sublime Text with Haskell plugins
SublimeHaskell: On Linux, I had difficulty making it work because of its dependencies, mainly because of ghc-mod, IIRC. It also made ...
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Cross-platform IDE alternative to MS Visual Studio - other than Eclipse CDT
It seems that JetBrains CLion may meet almost all of your requirements. It is often not gratis, though.
You might also want to have a look at the C++ IDE comparison table on Wikipedia.
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Windows IDE for Python
For python development, I am a huge fan of Jetbrains products so their offering, PyCharm, is what I am going to suggest. There is a free version of the IDE which does let you keep adding files (no ...
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IDE with debugger able to view and manipulate python pandas dataframes?
Is there an IDE that correctly displays pandas dataframes?
PyCharm released version 2016.2 (a week after I posted this question!), which includes a pandas dataframe viewer.
I still want to know if ...
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Compile old Delphi and C++ Builder source code
You will have to make changes as you go but it might be worth taking a look a Lazarus IDE & FreePascal
Free, Gratis & OpenSource
Cross Platform
To quote the web page: "Compatibility with TP 7....
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Gratis IDE/editor for Graphviz
I found a Notepad++ plugin that works fairly well:
NppGraphViz by Github user jrebacz.
Combined with this syntax highlighting scheme from signmotion you get a nice editing environment in Notepad++:
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Best package to profile R code
There's some useful information at SO:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7252602/digging-into-r-profiling-information
In the old days, it was common to use Rprof, and you can see ?Rprof for more ...
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Is there a lightweight IDE for C with nice visual design?
CudaText (free, open source) is lite and allows it, but with some steps from user.
user needs plugins: Config Toolbar, External Tools (all in Addon Manager)
user needs to add a "tool" to compile code;...
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IDE for C, Ubuntu
I have been a profession embedded programmer for "a few" decades.
Eclipse is what I have always used, in industry, when developing under Linux.
There are probably others, some may even be "better" ...
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