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Is there any fancy editor of GAP code or even some environment dedicated to it? I've been using Notepad++ for this purpose but it seems only to color the syntax. I would like to have more developmental features.

Olexandr Konovalov
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  • You mean like a button or shortcut to put in a "read" command in GAP? – Tobias Kildetoft Dec 19 '18 at 09:25
  • Personally, I do not like fancy editors, and I use vi (which you might not have heard of) for everything, but I am very old fashioned! I don't think this question is about mathematics. – Derek Holt Dec 19 '18 at 09:39
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    Sage contains GAP, you might do better looking for IDEs for that - you can run it in a jupyter notebook for example – Matthew Towers Dec 19 '18 at 10:55
  • For Windows, Notepad++ is the best choice (https://www.gap-system.org/Faq/faq.html#8.3) although it's not an IDE. As for Jupyter, there is a Jupyter kernel for GAP as well (https://gap-packages.github.io/JupyterKernel/), and it is redistributed with the latest GAP release (although it's also not an IDE). For Linux, GAP has some nice setup for vim and emacs, adding some IDE features. – Olexandr Konovalov Dec 19 '18 at 16:06
  • Perhaps you could clarify what kind of features you are looking for... ? – Max Horn Dec 20 '18 at 11:35
  • Another page with information about GAP mode in some editors is https://github.com/gap-system/gap/wiki/Syntax-Highlighting-GAP. GAP also has a Jupyter kernel, you can try it e.g. at https://github.com/gap-system/try-gap-in-jupyter or https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/gap-demos – Olexandr Konovalov Feb 10 '20 at 00:23
  • Does IDE mean an environment where we can copy and paste codes and run them to get results? I was able to open Jupyter Kernel for GAP and was able to check syntax, but I could not get an answer to my question, which was some generators for the normalizer of a subgroup in S_5. – AgentSmith Feb 14 '20 at 20:14
  • @AgentSmith you should be able to get answer in Jupyter. Try it at https://github.com/gap-system/try-gap-in-jupyter, please let me know what does not work! (I haven't seen your comment without an @ ping - please make sure you ping me in your reply). – Olexandr Konovalov May 19 '21 at 22:28

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