Poll: Which is your primary text editor? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by peatfreak » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:35 AM UTC

[deleted] wrote: post #9

robertnn wrote: post #5

Vi != Vim

[deleted]

The irony of calling somebody out on a false statement with a false statement of your own...

Vim is more or less a superset of vi. Even still, there are some subtle behaviors in real vi that do not work the same in Vim, even in Vim's "compatible" mode.

Of all the vi-like editors, Nvi is much closer to real vi than Vim is.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by hanula » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:35 AM UTC

VIM

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by zerr » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:36 AM UTC

Primary: Visual Studio (for C++)

Notepad replacement: Notepad++

Prolog, Haskell: Sublime Text (thanks to it, I can get rid of emacs completely)

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by SeoxyS » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:37 AM UTC

I find it interesting how much TextMate has declined. A few years ago, I believe it would have been the #1 response on this list. TextMate 2 these days, in the hands of the community, is truly excellent. The UI and UX has improved tremendously, and it is now free and open source. I imagine it is just too late. Everybody has moved on.

That said, I'm a switcher, too. I got fed up with the vaporware situation and moved to vim full-time a few years ago. I couldn't move back now.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by gmac » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:37 AM UTC

I've made this move recently myself, but I'm a little surprised how completely Sublime Text has hoovered up the TextMate constituency.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by theanalyst » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:41 AM UTC

adrianhoward wrote: post #6

Okay. I admit to being surprised by this. Despite being a Sublime user myself I had expected vi[m]/emacs to handily beat all other options.

There was a poll yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728866, this reflects that.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by viduthalai1947 » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:42 AM UTC

Sublime

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by ekianjo » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:46 AM UTC

Isn't Geany missing?

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by atirip » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:46 AM UTC

Mou

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by railsshetty » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:47 AM UTC

VIM FOREVER ......