My Favorite Tool - Midnight Commander

Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

What kind of tool is it?

A text editor and file manager.

Why I like it

My favourite tool is Midnight Commander and its text editor (which also works as a standalone tool) Mcedit. These two utilities are powerful yet easy to use. They both run on the command line in Unix operating systems, but instead of typing commands, they work mostly by using menus and selecting things with arrow keys or a mouse. This makes them a kind of halfway house between a traditional command line and a GUI utility and in my opinion they bring together the best of both worlds.

My Favorite Tool - Emacs

Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

My favorite tool is Emacs.

Emacs provides an extensible and unified framework to access nice interfaces to several other tools. For instance, it allows you to:

Keep notes, maintain TODO lists, plan projects, edit and automatically export documents to many formats (Org-mode).
Conveniently edit Python source code and, at the same time, send code regions to a Python shell, permitting a piece-by-piece interactive programming (Python mode).

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My Favorite Tool - Midnight Commander

What kind of tool is it?

Why I like it

My Favorite Tool - Emacs