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> I'm not sure what you use tooltips They show documentation (pulled from comments) for functions, classes and arguments. > and context menus For context-sen

> I'm not sure what you use tooltips They show documentation (pulled from comments) for functions, classes and arguments. > and context menus For context-sensitive commands I use once per week or less often, so I don’t bother memorizing keyboard shortcuts for them. > most command-line editors are actually GUIs in the terminal Most developers don’t use command line editors. Here’s recent data from this year: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-environments-and-tools https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-e... As you see, 4 most popular editors are VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and Sublime Text, all of them are GUI applications. Only 26% developers use Vim, 4% Emacs.

oblio 9y ago
Those stats are also probably skewed in favor of people actually bothering to fill their survey. Those are more likely to be active/proactive, which in my experience is correlated with tinkering with tools (ergo, using Vim or Emacs).
- dmitriid 9y ago
  > Those stats are also probably skewed in favor of people actually bothering to fill their survey. Those are more likely to be active/proactive, which in my experience is correlated with tinkering with tools (ergo, using Vim or Emacs). and yet: > Most developers don’t use command line editors. Here’s recent data from this year: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-e.. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-e.... As you see, 4 most popular editors are VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and Sublime Text, all of them are GUI applications. Only 26% developers use Vim, 4% Emacs.
  - oblio 9y ago
    My point that those stats are not necessarily representative of the general population in that CLI editors are used by even less people than listed there. In my personal experience maybe 1% of the developers I know use them as their primary editors. They maybe edit some stuff with them on remote Unix systems, if you can call i<change some stuff>:wq real editing :)
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oblio 9y ago

Those stats are also probably skewed in favor of people actually bothering to fill their survey. Those are more likely to be active/proactive, which in my experience is correlated with tinkering with tools (ergo, using Vim or Emacs).

dmitriid 9y ago
> Those stats are also probably skewed in favor of people actually bothering to fill their survey. Those are more likely to be active/proactive, which in my experience is correlated with tinkering with tools (ergo, using Vim or Emacs). and yet: > Most developers don’t use command line editors. Here’s recent data from this year: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-e.. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#development-e.... As you see, 4 most popular editors are VS Code, Visual Studio, Notepad++ and Sublime Text, all of them are GUI applications. Only 26% developers use Vim, 4% Emacs.
- oblio 9y ago
  My point that those stats are not necessarily representative of the general population in that CLI editors are used by even less people than listed there. In my personal experience maybe 1% of the developers I know use them as their primary editors. They maybe edit some stuff with them on remote Unix systems, if you can call i<change some stuff>:wq real editing :)

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