Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use? • Hacker News Board

abrahamsen wrote: post #43

claudius wrote: post #25

ed is missing. And, yes, I used that thing over telnet in this century to do coding for a MUD…

Ed is the standard text editor. http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Do you mean that it isn’t necessary to list it here because everybody uses it all the time and listing it would render the poll senseless?

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Post by a3n » Sat, May 18, 2013, 3:07 PM UTC

jakub_g wrote: post #17

Notepad++, Eclipse, Vim depending on what I'm doing. Eclipse when frequently moving between many files in a project, quickly opening project files via CTRL-SHIFT-R, and to benefit from configured project stuff like file synchronization or some plugins e.g. for legacy VCS that we partially use and I don't want to waste time to learn. Notepad++ mostly when performing some find & replace operations and opening files tha…

Vim.

I use Notepad++ when I have someone looking over my shoulder, as most people in my group don't spend their day in a text editor and never have. Those people have Notepad++.

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Post by milliams » Sat, May 18, 2013, 3:08 PM UTC

Kate and KWrite

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Post by bsimpson » Sat, May 18, 2013, 3:09 PM UTC

Chrome Dev Tools might be my answer next year. If you haven't seen the fantastic work Paval has been doing to allow you to write your app without leaving the browser, check out this talk from Thursday:

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325206725

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Post by ali433 » Sat, May 18, 2013, 3:15 PM UTC

winvi32

Re: Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?

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Post by rdl » Sat, May 18, 2013, 3:20 PM UTC

I use 3+epsilon different editors depending on the situation.

I use Sublime when I'm on a Mac; vim when I'm ssh'd to a remote system and just need to quickly edit a file, or even sometimes locally if I just need to add one or two lines. Emacs if I'm on a remote or non-Mac system and need to do more in-depth editing.

What I really love is just "cat" to a file, though.