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For the pure editing of text, Vim is the clear winner. Whether that's all you want, is another question.
You misspelled "emacs".
For the pure editing of text, Vim is the clear winner. Whether that's all you want, is another question.
If only working with multiple files was easier... what are you guys using these days ? [edit] Also, one thing that shows how Vim is oriented towards opening and closing it all time is that preventing acidental quitting is quite hard to achieve (only with hacks..)
With a few mappings:
noremap b :ls:buffer
noremap :b#
noremap :bprev
noremap :bnextGeany on Linux, JEdit on Windows. Line numbers, full paths, reasonable cursor behavior, color-coding for various languages, plugins, keybindings are mostly conventional and fully configurable, etc. - and both are GPL.
For Android I use Eclipse, but hopefully the new editor from Google will be an improvement.
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It is not a text editor.
Eclipse 'merely' includes several text editors and is primarily used for editing text.
``But even if TextMate 2 drops from the sky fully-formed and marveled at by all, Emacs will still be there, waiting. It will be there when the icecaps melt and the cities drown, when humanity destroys itself in fire and zombies, when the roaches finally achieve sentience, take over, and begin using computers themselves - at which point its various Ctrl-Meta key-chords will seem not merely satisfyingly ergonomic for the typical arthropod, but also direct evidence for the universe’s Intelligent Design by some six-legged, multi-jointed God.''
Primary: Visual Studio (for C++) Notepad replacement: Notepad++ Prolog, Haskell: Sublime Text (thanks to it, I can get rid of emacs completely)
Why do you want to get rid of Emacs?
Even when I was full-time in Linux, my go to IDE was KDevelop. And mcedit for simple text editing.
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Eclipse 'merely' includes several text editors and is primarily used for editing text.
And in the same way that a car includes many control interfaces but is not itself a control interface, a program that contains text editors is not itself a text editor.
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THere are people who don't use GNU Emacs?
I assume he's thinking of things like http://www.xemacs.org/
There's also Steve Youngs' SXEmacs (a XEmacs fork), which is probably the most well-developed of several efforts to extend Emacs to be a window manager.