Visual Studio + viemu for vi keybindings. The sum of the two is far greater.
Ask HN: Best code editor?
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#82vim
Read this a while back and remember enjoying it quite a bit. (He talks about vi + other stuff).
[Original source seems to be unavailable at the moment]:
Interview with Bill Joy, August 1984, Unix Review magazine http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:N14AkASeqMoJ:www.cs.pdx....
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#83Coda love it, used to use textmate
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#84Visual Studio 2008 - Love it. I don't notice any load-time issues, but maybe thats because I never close it.
Add in the combination of Resharper and Visual SVN, and it walks circles around anything else.
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#85Visual Studio 2008 - Love it. I don't notice any load-time issues, but maybe thats because I never close it.
I'm a huge fan of VS as well. When I'm at home on my personal machine, it's always a bit of a letdown when Intellisense doesn't kick in...
I don't understand, why do you not have intellisense at home?
The Express editions have intellisense, right?
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#86Codewright. Very satisfied (since '01!). Too bad Borland killed it.
Ultraedit isn't bad, but it's not in quite the same class as Codewright.
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#87gedit didn't make the list yet? for shame! syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, line numbers, multi-line tab, multi-line comments (with a plugin), installed whether you want it or not with ubuntu.
gedit is a nice editor... I used it before switching to emacs... Some of the emacs modes offer a nice bit of additional power that gedit is lacking, plus gedit requires more dependency on the mouse than emacs.
but for people who are asking about textmate for linux... it's called gedit.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
vim is one of the most user friendly pieces of software I have ever used. The interface is incredibly efficient. The designers put great effort into making sure that common tasks were one or two keystrokes that usually don't even require moving your fingers off the home row. Just because it's not the most discoverable interface doesn't mean it's user hostile. I wish more software designers would look at vim as an exa…
Reading this crystalised some thoughts I've had for a long time, but never been able to express clearly. Yes, vim is a non-discoverable interface. http://www.google.com/search?q=discoverable+interface ( Side note: from that search I found this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/html/ch01s01.html There it lists "... concision, expressiveness, ease, transparency, and scriptability." It then expands on each, but m…
You only need 1 tutorial to discover vim, and it comes with the program and requires 20 minutes.
For me "discover" means "edit without the mouse." Once you do that, you're hooked - you can discover the voodoo magic at your leisure, from then on.
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#89Emacs. 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...
I've really enjoyed emacs... with the help of @technomancy's emacs starter kit:
http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit
The starter kit serves as your .emacs.d and comes with some useful modes and easy customization.
I'm not yet maximizing all of the modes, but I am more productive than I've been in other editors, especially when it comes to switching between many open files with a few keystrokes.