are code editors just text input clis and an interpreter you select (lemmy.ml)

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hi all, noob at this. are code editors just notepad but with text highlighting, file opening, and interpreters which you use a terminal application to execute?

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[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Not really. A good code editor has:

Editing.
Syntax highlighting, paren matching.
Filters - basic functions like sort, up to your own scripts.
Build/send to REPL.

ed doesn't have highlighting, but it's perfectly useful. Notepad's basically useless, you can't highlight or filter, can't build. Vim does 1-3, and then you just type :!make or whatever.

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