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by kek918 3530 days ago
I'd like every editor to have a universal function to show a list of keyboard shortcuts, for instance the F1 button (because this is regarded as "Help" in Windows environment).

I often use different editors (and on different computers), so keyboard shortcuts may differ. Sometimes I can't remember the shortcut for what I want to do, so it would be very handy to press F1 and see a little cheatsheet of all the available shortcuts, instead of opening the settings menu and clicking through 4-5 submenus to find it.

Other than that I'm quite happy with todays editors. I'm coding in both Windows and Linux environments and all my editors works great for both.

For larger projects I use Netbeans 8.2 (Web backend and frontend). It comes with everything I need out of the box, the only plugin I sometimes use is the Zend HTML thingy (for creating HTML markup macros).

For Python projects I use Jetbrain Pycharm.

For anything else where I don't really need advanced features like PHPdoc or autocomplete I tend to open Atom (previously Sublime Text until the Atom hype got me).

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Emacs has had this for ages, in various sophisticated levels (since there are a lot of key bindings).