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Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

#45
jEdit. I'm surprised nobody seems to be using it considering how powerful it is. I have tried many editors over the years and SublimeText is the first one that comes close to it; but jEdit still has much better search functionality, especially in 'hypersearch' mode.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

#49
don't know what to choose.

i'm making something like a transition from vim to sublime, so right now i use both equally.

but it seems to me that using vim on the server in a screen or tmux session is the right thing to do ( no need to leave into bash whatsoever ), while it's extremely pleasant to edit source files over sftp.

so i think i'll choose to use this combination ...

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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post #24

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…

Sublime Text 2 is kind of the spiritual successor to TextMate.

And Sublime Text 3 the successor of Sublime Text 2.
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