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Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by laumars »

dexen wrote: post #68
RBerenguel wrote: post #51

I guess acme goes to "other gui"

...and to "other cli" just as well ;-)

I wouldn't have said so. Even ignoring the fact that it's a GUI app, it's also mouse driven. And the "CLI" aspect of Acme is really just a novel way of implementing shortcuts and macros, but since those functions are non-interactive, it's not really behaving like a command line.

At risk of nitpcking, I think the "other CLI" option should have read "other console based" (that is, unless they were expecting people to answer with the likes of sed hehe).

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by ankitml »

gutnor wrote: post #83
ankitml wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Exactly! And when you use your IDE to edit text file they should be listed aswell using the same logic. 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 the…

Not sure of the converse part though. Anyway, I think we can continue arguing on semantics. This is not going to benefit anyone like the flame wars.

Use what you feel good and productive. Be happy.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by btipling »

jongold wrote: post #33
SeoxyS wrote: 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.

Given that Sublime Text does not look like a Mac app, and that TextMate was a Mac only app that looked very much like a Mac app, I find it to not be 'spiritual successor' in any shape or form. Sublime Text 2 is a cross-platform application. Having said that, Sublime Text has borrowed some good ideas from TextMate, but many editors do that these days.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by dfox »

saljam wrote: post #86
lmm wrote: post #41

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

People often underestimate the power of ed. It's very useful when terminals are misbehaving and curses editors no longer work, or in shell scripts which modify files. (Ed commands in here documents.) 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…

On more than one occasion I ended up editing files by piping them through sed because even ed didn't work (it tends to require writable /tmp or something like that)

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by GFischer »

carbocation wrote: post #2

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

Similarly, I use Visual Studio for 99% of my text edits (ok, I work at a Microsoft-only company, and don't have much need for a text editor).

I do have Notepad++ installed, and if I had to say, I probably use Beyond Compare for my meager text editing needs.

If I switch to other software stacks, I'll probably use Sublime (although I'd like to keep on using an IDE).

Edit: I'm not the only one

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736817

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Post by dfox »

adamors wrote: post #47
zerr wrote: post #23

Primary: Visual Studio (for C++) Notepad replacement: Notepad++ Prolog, Haskell: Sublime Text (thanks to it, I can get rid of emacs completely)

> primary text editor > Visual Studio

While my most often used local editor is emacs by far (and zile remotely), I also tend to use Visual Studio as simple text editor on windows. Some kind of Visual Studio shell is installed on almost any windows machine I need to use (be it Visual Studio proper, AvrStudio or something like that) and in contrast to notepad it does not have problem with LF newlines.
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