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Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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I mostly do ASP.NET MVC development, so I use Visual Studio 2010 + 2012 with a bunch of plugins daily. I also bought a bunch of other IDE's on JetBrains' end of of the world sale including Intellij Idea, WebStorm, RubyMine and PyCharm. I have found they are a lot slower than VS 2012. I haven't worked with Eclipse/Netbeans in over a year. Other than that I usually use Notepad++ daily and I really like SublimeText - I've used it on trial, but haven't bought a license yet. I also use Microsoft Management Studio for T-SQL, otherwise one of the aforementioned text editors. A couple of months ago I was hacking away on Ubuntu and found Geany - which is actually pretty good for what you pay for (free). CodeBlocks on windows is not bad either. It might be a good idea to specify language of choice with preferred IDE if that's what you're after :)

Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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I'm not ashamed to admit I spend most of my coding time with Notepad++ — I suppose I'm not a "real" programmer. I think I'll most likely switch to Sublime Text eventually though, if nothing else because of its cross OS compatibility; I just have to find some time to test if everything I use on npp is there on Sublime Text aswell.

Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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Textwrangler and vim. I'm looking to move to sublime eventually, but my needs aren't overly complex and I'd rather not spend the effort switching at the moment.

I waste maybe 1-5% of my time on inefficiencies regarding my editor. It's a low priority decision to me.

Re: Ask HN: What code-editor do you use?

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Emacs for everything. I am yet to find a more efficient editor. I guess the same can be be said if you're a seasoned Vim user.

I used Sublime a little recently for some HTML and CSS. It may be a better choice for some HTML and CSS, in some or most cases.

Favourite languages: Used to be C but now Ruby, as paradoxical as that sounds.

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