What's your favorite editor to hack with? • Hacker News Board

Vi. The simplicity, speed, and the fact that it is installed on any *nix system by default are my favorite aspects of Vi. I've played around with Vim, but haven't migrated to it because I just don't use the features.

At times, I have been tempted to move to Emacs due to all its cool features but have not yet, maybe some day. Emacs in slime mode has been great to use while learning lisp.

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by dfranke » Sun, Sep 16, 2007, 6:40 AM UTC

Depends what I'm hacking. I actually use both vi and emacs -- vi for quick edits and emacs for more serious work. Eclipse for Java but nothing else. I'll resort to ed if I'm on a system where I don't have my emacs customizations and vi isn't vim.

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Post by greendestiny » Sun, Sep 16, 2007, 6:42 AM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #2

I love TextMate on the Mac. Personally I think it's the best thing since sliced bread :) The only problem is that it's not cross platform and it's not available when you're connecting over SSH into a server to fix some problems. I use Vi most of the time to just edit configuration files, etc, but I found it lacks the power I need for doing serious hacking (for all the vi lovers out there, I'm willing to admit this is…

Print yourself an emacs cheatsheet, key combinations get a little cryptic but they are the fastest way to interact with an editor (I think its probably good to use them even in other editors)

This sheet's a little basic, but its a start: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/guides/package/emacs/emacs.html