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

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by RBerenguel » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:29 AM UTC

I guess acme goes to "other gui"

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by brokenparser » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:32 AM UTC

Editors like joe and pico don't fit anywhere. They are neither CLI or GUI based. And no one in their right mind ever chooses to use a line-oriented editor as their primary editor. Even serial programmers don't do that.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by nikomen » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:33 AM UTC

unsigner wrote: post #4

Scintilla embedded in our own Lua IDE; the same "engine" is used by Notepad++. I also regularly use SciTE, which is a small standalone Scintilla-based editor.

I also use SciTE. It's extremely lightweight and easy to use.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by antisol » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:38 AM UTC

SciTE - the Scintilla Text editor.

very lightweight yet super-flexible!

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by gutnor » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:39 AM UTC

ankitml wrote: post #44

carbocation wrote: post #2

Eclipse (not currently an option in the poll except as "other gui")

It is not a text editor.

Well, not quite sure about that.

The only time I edit a text file outside my IDE is when I connect directly to a server, and in that case I use vi.

That seems ridiculous to chose Vi as my primary text editor, when 99.9% of my text editing is done in Intellij.

Well I abstained in this case, however where do you draw the limit ? If there was a poll about "What is your primary IDE" would Vim or Emacs not be listed because they are "just text editor" ?

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by ExpiredLink » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:41 AM UTC

ankitml wrote: post #44

carbocation wrote: post #2

Eclipse (not currently an option in the poll except as "other gui")

It is not a text editor.

Eclipse 'merely' includes several text editors and is primarily used for editing text.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by ExpiredLink » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:45 AM UTC

railsshetty wrote: post #32

In this Context, Consider vi == vim

In this Context, consider Context a text editor: http://www.contexteditor.org/

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by elmindreda » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:49 AM UTC

bifrost wrote: post #12

robertnn wrote: post #5

Vi != Vim

Yeah, I see people get lost going VIM -> NVI all the time. Kinda wish NVI had some of the vim macro/etc functionality in it.

vi != nvi != Vim

Try using heirloom vi or Solaris vi sometime. Even nvi adds a lot of convenience.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by Gallefray » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:49 AM UTC

lmm wrote: post #41

How could you have forgotten the standard text editor, http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Thanks for this. You just made my day! :D

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by lucian1900 » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:51 AM UTC

nimbix wrote: post #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.

It's written in Java, and Swing to boot. People are unlikely to accept a slow, memory-hungry editor if it's not an IDE.