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I'm looking for an IDE which helps me reduce my Alt-Tabbing. At any given time, I've got a Chromium session open (for testing my application), a gedit/geany session for editing, and a dedicated terminal for git etc.

I remember that there was something like this in Visual Studio and Expression Studio. I've been through Komodo Editor, Eclipse, Bluefish, Anjuta but it seems that none of them have an integrated browser. Also I do not like the inbuilt terminal of geany (can never seem to restart it after a misplaced Ctrl+D.

Just to be clear, I do not want a HTML preview mode (offered by Bluefish for eg) which allows me to preview my HTML. I need a full-fledged browser (with JS,DOM support) embedded in tabs.

I would love if an editor offered these three things (editor, terminal, and browser) in a tabbed View. Allowing multiple terminals is a big plus.

Is there such an IDE available?

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I think a better solutuion to your alt-tabbing problem would be, instead of trying to find an IDE which integrates all the things you need (what about an IRC client? Skype?) - is to use a window manager which helps you to organize your windows in a way which eliminates alt-tabbing and provides instant access to all your windows.

Have a look at some tiling window managers - I personally use Xmonad but there are a few others.

This way you will be able to use "real" programs - a real browser, a real terminal client - instead of their embedded versions.

Here's a picture from xmonad.org:

xmonad running on 3 monitors

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Geany has a built-in terminal in the Message window. As far as I'm aware, there is no way to add a browser to a tab, but it is possible to load a page in a new browser window and have it focus.

I personally just move my current applications to the top of the launcher so that I can use super+1 for Geany and super+2 for my application, for instance. That way, it's just as easy to switch between applications than it is to switch between tabs.

It should be possible to make a plugin to have a webkit in a tab in Geany, but I don't know of any such plugin.

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  • I just switched my terminal to gnome-terminal and it seems quite better, but still its nowhere as good as multiple terminals inside geany tabs. Do you know of any geany plugin that creates its own tabs? I might try to develop something of the sort.
    – Nemo
    Sep 11, 2011 at 14:19
  • I don't, but then I've also never looked for Geany plugins. Sep 11, 2011 at 19:49
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    geany already has a webkit based browser plugin named webhelper. I think the package name is geany-plugin-webhelper plugins.geany.org/webhelper.html Sep 12, 2011 at 7:04
  • ^It opens in the bottom pane.
    – Nemo
    Sep 13, 2011 at 0:43
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Redcar

A Ruby text editor written in Ruby from the ground up runs on JRuby (a fast, compatible Ruby implementation) is cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) highly extensible Some Redcar features:

supports Textmate themes and snippets split screen mode syntax checking for many languages built in REPLs for Ruby, Groovy, Clojure and Mirah.

It has got an unstable terminal plugin, and an inbuilt browser as well (both of which open in tabs)

Redcar Terminal

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I suggest you also have a look at Light Table, one of the top 10 from KickStarter. They have an excellent demo on their home page here: http://lighttable.com/

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  • Does it meet the requirements outlined in the question?
    – Seth
    Jan 22, 2015 at 23:49
  • The demo shows the imbedded browser and the feature list is above it. I don't see a console but I think it may be there. Jan 22, 2015 at 23:52
  • The demo shows a terminal?
    – Seth
    Jan 22, 2015 at 23:53
  • No terminal. I see they have issue #533 as a feature request for a shell in a tab. No one has been assigned to it yet. github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/533 Jan 23, 2015 at 0:11

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