# Code Editors/IDEs used for Fortran

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/code-editors-ides-used-for-fortran/3139>\
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**Created:** [April 5, 2022, 12:00pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/code-editors-ides-used-for-fortran/3139 "2022-04-05T12:00:39Z")\
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Thank you @gnikit !

Yeah, exactly, I looked at the settings in modern Fortran extension, it seems to be a `one size fits all solution`.

The only reason I installed the Fortran intellisense is that it can show the variable/subroutine/functions properties/informtaion when my mouse hover on them (like Intel Fortran + Visual Studio does), for example, when I put my mouse on a subroutine of mine called mydiffeq\_init, the intellisense shows the information of my subroutine as below,

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/2X/3/3e59f7417cadad536754fc32a659c61333658b89.jpeg)

Without Fortran intellisense, I am not very sure if such information can still be displayed. But one of the drawback of Fortran intellisense is that it requires installing fortran-language-server using pip, and sometimes it cannot find the installed fortls.exe, and I have to manually set it in the extension settings.

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