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Which Text Editors Do Great Hackers/Programmers Use?
I heard that Linus Torvalds is using a customized version of MicroEmacs. Richard Stallman is probably using Emacs. Bram Moolenaar must likely uses vim. Rob Pike used acme (https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/).
Are there any reliable studies on that topic? Maybe a survey of Linux kernel hackers? Or maybe interviews with notable hackers/programmers?
- CFM 8y agoI like Text Wrangler, Notepad++ and Visual Studio for text edits.
- CFM 8y agoThanks for the down vote!
- paedubucher 8y agoThat wasn't me, by the way.
- CFM 8y agoLOL!
- dang 8y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? Also, if you'd read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. One thing they ask you to do is not post comments about getting downvoted.
- simonblack 8y agoWordstar clone. (Frightening, isn't it? That's what happens when key-sequences get imprinted.)