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Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

#22
I use Sublime, but mainly because its search features are the best I've seen in any text editor. I can grep the entire codebase I'm working with for a specific string or pattern, or limit the search to specific kinds of files or files in specific directories, and see the results listed one after another in the find tab. Click on the result I want and I'm editing that file in that spot.

I've considered trying out other editors (Emacs, Vim, etc) but I haven't seen much in the way of first-party multi-file grep like I have with Sublime.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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post #22

I use Sublime, but mainly because its search features are the best I've seen in any text editor. I can grep the entire codebase I'm working with for a specific string or pattern, or limit the search to specific kinds of files or files in specific directories, and see the results listed one after another in the find tab. Click on the result I want and I'm editing that file in that spot. I've considered trying out othe…

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Find_in_files_within_Vim

http://seesparkbox.com/foundry/demystifying_multi_file_searc...

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

#26
To my fellow Vim users out there, I would like to ask why you use Vim?

For me, Vim is what my mentor was using so it's what I picked up. It's command-line oriented which is a huge win for me, and it's available everywhere (Mac includes it by default), and I haven't hit a roadblock that's been painful enough to get me to sincerely investigate other editors.

What has led you to continue using your editor of choice?

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

#28
I'm a big fan of Geany, it's a polished lightweight editor with good defaults and all the settings I need to keep my code formatted how I like it. I use the Solarized Dark theme (https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-themes), works well for all languages I tried and is easy on the eyes.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

#29
Visual Studio for C#/.NET work (usually webapis)

Sublime Text for Javascript and other general text editing

Our whole team generally uses these editors, though they have to use VS, they are free to use anything other than Sublime for JS stuff - they still prefer it though

I still have Notepad++ hanging around from before I started using Sublime but will no longer feature on my next workstation builds.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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post #8

Needs a VisualStudio option?!

It's an IDE and this was about editors (or so I thought). Some the editors in the poll such as emacs can support basic IDE development (at least a debugger with watches and stepping), but I'm assuming those of us who develop in an IDE should vote for what editor we use for text editing and other general work.
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