• From: Ontario, Canada
  • Registered: 2009-06-29
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Topic: Note-taking application with syntax highlighting?

Hi everyone,

Starting school once again tomorrow, and I have a dilemma to deal with.
I have programming classes, and need to be able to take notes on the computer.
However, I need some kind of syntax highlighting, or some kind of easy insertion of code blocks, to organize my notes.
Could anyone make suggestions? Windows or Linux, or both, doesn't actually matter too much.
Or if you had to take notes during a programming lecture, what would you use?

just call me...
~FSM~
  • benj1
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  • From: Yorkshire, England
  • Registered: 2009-09-05
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Re: Note-taking application with syntax highlighting?

some markdown converter will probably allow you to define code blocks, you won't get the syntax highlighting until its been converted to html tho.

another aproach is to just use a text editor with syntax highlighting, if its text heavy you could define a syntax file where code lines start with # or something rather than commenting out loads of normal text lines, don't know how many text editors would be sophisticated enough to do that, I would assume Vi and Emacs tho.

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  • luc
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  • From: Munich, Germany
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Re: Note-taking application with syntax highlighting?

I would use (g)vim (as i do for nearly everything) and these two commands:

syntax on
set autoindent

(drawback: syntax is determind by filetype so you have to save your buffer if you do not set it explicitly)
luc