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There is some active research in academia and there is also the factor that veteran programmers almost all develop an itch they would love to scratch. Text editors, programming language, debuggers, terminals...

I know that if I had a few more hours a day I would try to write yet another of these things.

(Where is my cross-platform, OSX-Linux-Windows one-file text editor that just has smart indent and syntax highlighting for python?)

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> (Where is my cross-platform, OSX-Linux-Windows one-file text editor that just has smart indent and syntax highlighting for python?)

I know people are gonna protest this suggestion vociferously, but Emacs ticks all these boxes (except that it works for multiple files), with almost no configuration. Admittedly, getting auto-completion to work cross-platform for various languages is still quite tricky.

By one-file, I mean one executable file. Also, emacs does not have the defaults most people expect since the 90s.

>> (Where is my cross-platform, OSX-Linux-Windows one-file text editor that just has smart indent and syntax highlighting for python?)

Just use vim? I mean, if the complexity of the projects you work with require access to a single file you might as well use _any_ editor that supports automated syntax highlights.

This got me started on my own editor. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046446

Sublime Text 3? I don’t think it’s quite “one-file” but it gets pretty close.

PyCharm.

This is what I am using for dev. Does not qualify as a light one-file app.

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