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Re: What IDEs are you using to develop git?

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 31, 2009, 10:21 UTC
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Howard Miller<howard@e-learndesign.co.uk> wrote:

> With a bit of learning
> can can do most of the stuff that an IDE does, usually faster and with
> less fuss.

Ditto. And with a very modest screen size. Modern IDEs need a huge monitor, and then more, just to show what they want to show you.

Not what you need.

So when working on webapps, I normally keep my editor (usually an emacs variant) window small, and have lots of terminal windows tracing relevant logs (webserver, db server) and 3~4 webbrowsers logged in as different users.

When working on git itself, it's much easier -- as all you need is your editor and your terminal to compile & debug so for a simple task like git itself, an IDE might even work ;-)

cheers,
m
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