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Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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It is not a text editor.

Well, not quite sure about that. The only time I edit a text file outside my IDE is when I connect directly to a server, and in that case I use vi. That seems ridiculous to chose Vi as my primary text editor, when 99.9% of my text editing is done in Intellij. Well I abstained in this case, however where do you draw the limit ? If there was a poll about "What is your primary IDE" would Vim or Emacs not be listed becau…

Vim/emacs are text editors and can be customized to act as IDE. IDEs are IDEs. If asked What is your primary IDE, you can still say emacs or VIM

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Asked yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728866

That probably didn't gain as much traction because half those items weren't text editors and he was missing a ton of IDEs to even make it a worthwhile poll in that regard. Plus Dreamweaver has no place in either such poll.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Visual Studio for coding, Microsoft Word 2013 for texts.

Do you not find MS Word a little overkill for working with plain text? Surely at the very least you'd want something that defaulted to monospaced fonts and didn't add formatting to your selections.

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And $70 is a successor of 50

I could imagine you have more expensive tools at home that you use less often than a text editor.

Perhaps, but none of them had free alternatives that are equally capable.

Re: Poll: Which is your primary text editor?

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Visual Studio for coding, Microsoft Word 2013 for texts.

Do you not find MS Word a little overkill for working with plain text? Surely at the very least you'd want something that defaulted to monospaced fonts and didn't add formatting to your selections.

Visual Studio works better than Word for plain text, but I rarely deal with text anyways, its always some kind of code. The only thing I don't use Visual Studio for is LaTeX, where TeXnicCenter works better.
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