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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 subsection1h »

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…

eproject[1] by Jonathan Rockway[2] supports project-based grepping.

[1] https://github.com/jrockway/eproject

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jrockway

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Post by finicky »

Timothee wrote: post #51
err4nt wrote: post #5

I use Coda2 because it integrates the IDE, terminal tabs, browser tabs, and my (s)FTP file management all in one fullscreened window. Having my entire workflow contained within one app keeps me focused!

I found your comment very interesting: I've been using vim for a few years now and wouldn't consider changing (except for Emacs with Evil mode) because I like doing everything without lifting my hands from the keyboard. But reading your description, I'm left slightly envious and pondering how vim could be integrated better with a browser with web development in mind specifically. I'm not sure what it'd be but it gets…

I'd love to be able to fully control and test the browser without using my mouse. I try my best to only use the keyboard when editing which makes the switch to 'mouse mode' even more painful.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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pmoriarty wrote: post #72

To compliment the "why vim?" question elsewhere in this thread, for my fellow Emacs users: why Emacs? How did you start using Emacs? Why do you still use it?

I switched to Emacs for Org mode because I wasn't satisfied with any of the note-taking solutions I had tried (I had hundreds of pages of notes in various file formats). I now have an Org-mode-powered personal wiki that includes a few thousand documents. Even if I were to switch to another editor/IDE for programming (which I can't imagine doing at this point), I'd still use Emacs for note-taking.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Post by limepod »

Timothee wrote: post #51
err4nt wrote: post #5

I use Coda2 because it integrates the IDE, terminal tabs, browser tabs, and my (s)FTP file management all in one fullscreened window. Having my entire workflow contained within one app keeps me focused!

I found your comment very interesting: I've been using vim for a few years now and wouldn't consider changing (except for Emacs with Evil mode) because I like doing everything without lifting my hands from the keyboard. But reading your description, I'm left slightly envious and pondering how vim could be integrated better with a browser with web development in mind specifically. I'm not sure what it'd be but it gets…

Firefox with pentadactyl and a tiling window manager (I use xmonad, i3 is also good with less configuration).

Super+[1..9] = switch to workspace. Super+hjkl = move between windows.

Re: Poll: What is your primary editor?

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Post by dllthomas »

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?

While I can give a lot of reasons why I think I still use vim and why that's not a bad choice, I'm sure the primary explanation for why I use vim is that it's what my father used and introduced me to when I was young.
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