Ask HN: Best code editor? • Hacker News Board

I switched multiple times for long periods, learnt each's scripting languages, customized the hell out of each, wrote extensions and in the end right now I'm happiest with being a speed demon with my vim keybindings-fu.

But really the only editors worth learning and using are Emacs and Vim, decide between which one or use both.

Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 9:46 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Best code editor?

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Post by pmichaud » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 9:48 PM UTC

vyrotek wrote: post #15

Visual Studio 2008 - Love it. I don't notice any load-time issues, but maybe thats because I never close it.

VS is probably the best product Microsoft makes, it's spoiled me for other IDEs.

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Post by johndoe77 » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 9:49 PM UTC

Eclipse

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Post by mixmax » Sat, Aug 29, 2009, 9:53 PM UTC

nixme wrote: post #8

Emacs. And yes, I'm very satisfied with it. Everytime I see a feature in another editor I like, EmacsWiki usually has an implementation or guide. Plus emacs has org-mode...

Emacs isn't for everyone though.

I gave it a try around a year ago since a lot of people I respect (looking at you HN) seem to worship it. After around a month I still thought it to be arcane and backwards. I even posted here to get some feedback on what I was doing wrong (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=313025) but we just never got along, Emacs and I. After around 2 months I went back to notepad++.

I'm not saying emacs is a bad editor, on the contrary, just that it's not for everyone and that it does seem to require a substantial effort before you're really productive in it.