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Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

#11
The confusion here, of course, is that text editor implies something. IntelliJ, for example, is not a text editor, and I do not use it as such.

The question implies (though, luckily, the answers are not limited) that you use just one text editor. Quite the opposite in fact, I feel if you are just using one tool for the job (always in vim, for example), you are unnecessarily limiting yourself to your tool set.

When all you have is a hammer, and all that jazz.

Edit: I should note that I'm just being whiny this morning. I should go back to playing with code.

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

#17
Notepad++, Eclipse, Vim depending on what I'm doing.

Eclipse when frequently moving between many files in a project, quickly opening project files via CTRL-SHIFT-R, and to benefit from configured project stuff like file synchronization or some plugins e.g. for legacy VCS that we partially use and I don't want to waste time to learn.

Notepad++ mostly when performing some find & replace operations and opening files that are not imported into Eclipse.

Occasionally Vim when I want to do sth quickly without leaving the console, like minor editing, Git commit messages etc.

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

#20
I'm wondering why BBEdit is missing in this poll? It's one of the best Mac text editors. Rock solid with a great support and tons of powerful features right out of the box.

Some users like apps that just work - you don't need to waist hours to customize, add plugins, tweak and turn.

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