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Text Editor (Vim) for everything (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Python, bash, txt, markdown…) except for AS3 for which I use FlashBuilder/Eclipse. Before switching to Vi
by johncoltrane 14y ago
Text Editor (Vim) for everything (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Python, bash, txt, markdown…) except for AS3 for which I use FlashBuilder/Eclipse.
Before switching to Vim a little more than 2 years ago, I had been using TextMate for about 3 years, before that I used BBEdit for a while and before that I learned the basics in Dreamweaver 3.
Neither Dreamweaver nor BBEdit were really "chosen". A friend advised me to start with Dreamweaver which was indeed very helpful and confortable when I began coding in the late 90's but after a while, I got fedup of the constant spoonfeeding and I didn't really need all the wysiwyg tools anymore so I switched to BBEdit which was the de facto text editor on Mac OS at the time.
I still used BBEdit and/or TextWrangler until I fell in love with TextMate sometime between 06 and 07 and, later, the command line.
Then I got bored and decided to switch to Linux full time. I spent almost a year looking for a TextMate alternative and found Vim to be the best candidate. And ultimately blow TextMate in every ways. To be honest, I'd have gone with ST2 if it existed at that time, though.
Give me a real keyboard, an UNIX-y system, a terminal emulator, exuberant ctags and Vim and I'm a happy man.