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Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

#33
post #24

I find it interesting how much TextMate has declined. A few years ago, I believe it would have been the #1 response on this list. TextMate 2 these days, in the hands of the community, is truly excellent. The UI and UX has improved tremendously, and it is now free and open source. I imagine it is just too late. Everybody has moved on. That said, I'm a switcher, too. I got fed up with the vaporware situation and moved…

Sublime Text 2 is kind of the spiritual successor to TextMate.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

#36
post #8

Okay. I admit to being surprised by this. Despite being a Sublime user myself I had expected vi[m]/emacs to handily beat all other options.

I'm sure there's a bit of selection bias by only polling the HN crowd (and at midnight on the west coast of the US / 3AM on the east coast -- a good portion of HN'ers are in SV).

Would like to see some sort of breakdown for this based on something like traffic stats instead of a poll.
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