Emacs vs Ninja IDE

Emacs can be controlled entirely with the keyboard. While true, I often find the mouse and menus handy for those lesser-used commands. An aide-memoir.

Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza).

You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed.

You can use Emacs' command line interface or graphical user interface.

Emacs has extensive help support built-in as well as a tutorial accessed with C-h t.

With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties.

Licensed under GNU GPL.

You can pass complicated arguments in the mini buffer.

Fully compliant GNU-emacs is available on many platforms, and they all understand .emacs configuration files.

Evil mode emulates vim behaviors within Emacs. It enables Vi users to move inside the Emacs universe.

Emacs can select rectangularly.

With lisp customization, any behavior of Emacs can be changed. Update with pre-release patch can be also applied without recompiling the whole Emacs.

Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It provides Vim features like Visual selection and text objects.

Dynamic word completion.

Advanced planning and publication which can start as a simple list.

You can jump straight from your org-mode files to programming tasks - and back - and build a seamless workflow.

Review the "Emacs Rocks" video.

Through its programmability, a very broad range of functionalities can be integrated in emacs, turning it even into a "single point of contact" with the underlying operating system.

Powerful commands, search, and more with the Helm plugin.

Works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, BSD, and others.

Since version 25 you can run GTK widgets inside Emacs buffers. One of these is the WebKitGTK+, which allows the user to run a full-featured web browser inside Emacs with JavaScript and CSS support among other things.

Emacs is great for everything.

Managing several large mailing lists has never been easier using Gnus. The threading commands and the various ways of scoring articles means that I never miss important messages/authors, etc. A joy to use.

Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell.

Plugins can easily be created to add features that you may need but are otherwise missing from the IDE.

Has out of the box support for virtualenv, which can be added when first starting a project or later through the settings.

Has an embedded python console built in.

It is possible to run the project or any file opened in the editor with just one click.

Allows you to search one or more words, a regular expression, etc.

• GNU/Linux
• OS X
• Windows

NInja IDE highlights both static and PEP8 errors in a file. With each type of error having its own icon.

Also supports rendering HTML files currently loaded in the editor.

Allows you to manage projects, saving descriptions and information about them and letting the user to perform file management related task inside the IDE itself.

Code locator allows quick and direct access to any file, function or class inside one of the project by simply pressing a few keys. Pressing Ctrl + K open a popup over a text field, where you can type the name of what you want.

You can easily see all functions, classes and attributes in the current program.