My Favorite Tool - Emacs
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:
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Keep notes, maintain
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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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Make the GDB debugger a user-friendly and effective tool when programming in C++ (GUD mode).
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Use Git through a beautiful interface (Magit).
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Edit LaTeX files through sophisticated packages that synchronize the text buffer with a PDF viewer, pretty-print mathematical expressions directly in the text buffer, automatically handle references and much more (Auctex).
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Access a handy but powerful LISP interpreter anytime from any text buffer.
– Francesco Montanari, Postdoctoral researcher, cosmology, Helsinki.
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