IDEs and Editors

In this part you will:

• Learn about editors

Topics covered:

• Many editors

Plone consists of more than 20.000 files! You need a tool to manage that. No development environment is complete without a good editor.

People pick editors themselves. Use whatever you are comfortable and productive with. Here are some of the most used editors in the Plone community:

• Visual Studio Code

• Sublime

• PyCharm

• Vim

• Emacs

Some features that most editors have in one form or another are essential when developing with Plone.

• Find in project (SublimeText 3: cmd + shift + f)

• Find files in Project (SublimeText 3: cmd + t)

• Find methods and classes in Project (SublimeText 3: cmd + shift + r)

• Goto Definition (SublimeText3 with codeintel: alt + click)

• Powerful search & replace

The capability of performing a full text search through the complete Plone code is invaluable. Thanks to omelette, an SSD and plenty of RAM you can search through the complete Plone code base in 3 seconds.

Note

Some editors and IDEs have to be extended to be fully featured. Here are some packages we recommend when using Sublime Text 3:

• BracketHighlighter

• GitGutter

• FileDiffs

• SublimeLinter with SublimeLinter-flake8 ...

• INI (syntax for ini-Files)

• SideBarEnhancements

• SyncedSideBar

Note

This list of extensions gets out of date quickly, especially for VS Code.