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If you can still change the options, please change Vi to Vim, as I'm sure most of the people voting for it actually mean Vim.
Well, vi is the editor I use 2nd most (after Emacs), but I use nvi nearly as often as I use vim, and I avoid the vim extensions (except the useful :help). I imagine changing vi to vim would be a bit like changing Emacs to GNU Emacs.
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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 becau…
Vim/emacs are text editors and can be customized to act as IDE. IDEs are IDEs. If asked What is your primary IDE, you can still say emacs or VIM
When I said 99.9% of my text editing is done in Intellij. I also meant text editing outside of the project I'm working on: various config files, log file parsing, remote config files, ... Except for some extreme case like very large file, I rarely find the need to switch to another editor those days.
Those days there is a large overlap between text editors and IDE. Both have made huge progress, so that outside java or c#, some text editor are perfectly serviceable IDE and conversely, IDE editor make decent editor.
Isn't Geany missing?
How could you have forgotten the standard text editor, http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Ed anecdote: A friend of mine once wanted to make an inverted version of sed, which takes commands on stdin and applies them to a file named in the arguments. I think he called it fsed. I facepalmed and gave him my copy of The UNIX Programming Environment.
Odd that TextWrangler is on there but not BBEdit. Maybe could be grouped together like vi/vim.
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I'm sure there's a bit of selection bias by only polling the HN crowd (and at midnight on the west coast of the US / 3AM on the east coast -- a good portion of HN'ers are in SV).
The geographical interpretation is strange. Why would you think Sublime would be relatively more prevalent than vi/emacs in SV? (Also don't forget it's coffee time in Europe)
Logically, you'd be right that it wouldn't make much sense. However geographical trends like that do happen. eg SLES tends to have more traction in Europe than in the US (where RHEL is king of the enterprise space). Opera is more widely used in Europe and some eastern blocks than it is in the States. Apple hardware has a lower foothold in Europe than in America. And so on.
Often it's just a case that people will use what they see their peers use rather than what they're told they should use by the internet.
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Well, vi is the editor I use 2nd most (after Emacs), but I use nvi nearly as often as I use vim, and I avoid the vim extensions (except the useful :help). I imagine changing vi to vim would be a bit like changing Emacs to GNU Emacs.
THere are people who don't use GNU Emacs?