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Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Post by hsmyers »

EditPlus---although at some point I will have built in to Sublime all of the features that I like. That said I'll probably always use it. Face it since I use notepad, It's unlikely that I'll abandon any editor that fits a need. I particularly like Emacs ability to write a task oriented package as a kind of drop in edit/language. Hell, I use editors like I use languages---use the right one for the task at hand.

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Post by SatvikBeri »

tikhonj wrote: post #26

I like Emacs. Enough to vote for both Emacs options :P. With something like Evil, you can get most of the benefits of Vim combined with all the power of Emacs. I'm not a user myself, but it sounds awesome--I'm considering learning Vim commands just to take advantage of it. The only downside is the learning curve. And I think there is a philosophical point to make here: for a tool you'll be using as much as your text…

Emacs-Vim combinations are a lot of fun. I used Emacs+Viper (or VILE or evil or something-can't really remember) along with SLIME when learning lisp, and it was definitely the best of both worlds. The Vim philosophy of separating editing and typing works really well with code-as-data philosophy of lisp, and Paredit + a built-in REPL made changes and feedback nearly instant. Playing with the editor was almost as fun as actually writing programs!

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Post by rpwilcox »

uladzislau wrote: post #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.

BBEdit +1 from me too.

I abandoned BBEdit for Textmate around 2006 I think. I went back to BBEdit when Textmate looked like it was a dead-end (2011 ish?).

Three things that drew me (back) to BBEdit:

  1. Most of the features from TextMate I used made it to BBEdit (Cmd-T, packages)
  2. BBEdit has been around for 20 years... I really don't want to pick up, learn, and spend years investing in a flash in the pan editor.
  3. I *really* don't want to fiddle with lisp to configure my editor
There are still some features in TextMate I miss. For example, TM's language grammers are still lightyears ahead of BBEdit's, and having written half a dozen grammers for each platform I know of which I speak. But BBEdit is solid and pretty great.

Also, shell worksheets are pretty amazing.

Disclosure: I run @bbedit_hints on Twitter.

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