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Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Post by mynegation »

click170 wrote: post #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?

I was a big Emacs fan once. I abandoned it in favour of vim for two reasons: longer shortcut sequences and it sucked in the terminal, shortcuts clashing with terminal sequences.

Vim has huge ecosystem (plugins, color schemes, integrations etc), available everywhere, starts in a blink (unless you screw up the config)

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Post by S4M »

kylec wrote: 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…

> 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.

In emacs you have M-x rgrep (M is the metakey, alt most likely). It greps all the file in your project, I don't know if Sublime's grep is different.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Post by yawboakye »

geekrax wrote: post #10

For me, it depends on what I am working on. Android Studio : Android development. XCode : iOS development. PyCharm : Python projects. RubyMine : RoR projects. WebStorm : AngularJS projects. Sublime Text : other Front-end, NodeJS stuff and everything else (including making grocery list, writing down phone numbers).

You have a lot of tools to master. Apart from Android and iOS development you could probably stick to and improve one editor (preferably Vim winks) for all the other projects.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Post by omni »

kylec wrote: 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…

Emacs has all of this as part of the popular projectile package for project management. https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile Some of the more advanced stuff is generally included in the search-specific packages, e.g. grep or ag.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Post by yawboakye »

fonnesbeck wrote: post #2

Its not clear why anyone cares what my text editor is.

Great resource for new programmers. Which editor is here for the long run? Which editor is actively developed? I'd assume that for any other that's used by a majority of people who bothered to tell everyone here. Editors affect productivity too. Perhaps TJ Holowaychuk is extremely productive because he uses X editor.
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