There are several different editors people use:
It's worth finding somebody in Otrego who's already using the editor you're interested in using and asking them how they've configured their editor.
Vim is an open source text-editor that comes bundled with most Unix-style systems, but can be installed on pretty much any system. It has a bit of a learning curve but is very powerful and versitile once you learn how to use it.
Users
- @Kashomon
Resources
- vimtutor -- still the best introduction to basic vim functionality.
- openvim.com has a nice vimtutor-like experience on the web.
- Plugins Manager: A plugin manager is basically required to have a good Vim
experience. There are several good options to choose from. There's a useful
(although somewhat dated) discussion on
Stack Overflow.
- Vundle -- A very popular plugin
manager (@Kashomon uses it), and it works quite well. Like
aptfor Vim. In maintenance mode, but still works quite well. - VimPlug -- Another very popular plugin manager like Vundle, but is still maintained.
- Vim8 Plugins -- Vim8 now has plugin-logic built into the system. It's a bit manual compared to Vundle or VimPlug, but it works quite well.
- Vundle -- A very popular plugin
manager (@Kashomon uses it), and it works quite well. Like
- Vim Awesome -- Useful collection of Plugins
- Vim the Hard Way -- Very detailed introduction to vim
Plugins
A collection of plugins you'll want for working on Otrego.
- https://github.com/fatih/vim-go -- The canonical plugin for Vim & Golang.
- https://github.com/ycm-core/YouCompleteMe -- Amazing autocomplete plugin for vim
- https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible -- Sensible collection of vim-defaults
- https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim -- Great fuzzy matcher for vim
- https://github.com/preservim/nerdcommenter -- Useful for auto-commenting plugin
- https://github.com/ervandew/supertab -- Simple tab-complete plugin
- https://vimawesome.com/plugin/fugitive-vim -- Useful vim plugin for git
VSCode is a very popular programming development environment (AKA IDE) that is open source and developed by Microsoft. It has a huge amount of functionality and is very well supported.
Users
- @RodDeacon
- @TrevorPeters
- @TamaBrian
- @mhoak
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Install Visual Studio Code. https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
- Check to ensure that the "Terminal" command line feature is installed with VS Code. (See "Terminal" menu on topline header)
- If not installed, install the Terminal feature from the Visual Studio catalog of VS Code extensions.
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Install the GoLang language extension for VS Code, Open the VSCode Marketplace and search for "GO".
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We use GitHub collaboration tools. GitHub is a website and cloud-based service that helps developers, and their collaborators, store and manage their code, as well as track and control changes to their code. Learn more about GitHub from kinsta.com/knowledgebase
- For using GitHub we recommend using Git commands from the Terminal.
- We don't recommend installing the GitHub extension for VS Code.
Users
- @jonathanmli
Resources
- This workflow tutorial is a great guide towards setting up features such as auto-formatting, auto-linting, and auto-completion