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Ask HN: what code text editor do you enjoy the most?
- capsicum 14y agocurrently i like - brackets http://brackets.io/ http://brackets.io/ and xcode
- mflindell 14y agoDon't lie, nobody likes xcode
- ankurdhama 14y agoEmacs
- hboon 14y agoMacVim
- jdale27 14y agocat
- MojoJolo 14y agoSublime Text 2 for Mac and Notepad++ for Windows.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoVisual Studio (Javascript, C#, C++, etc). I use Notepad++ for PHP but it is fairly bad. Eclipse for Java (Android) which is also fairly bad. Never understood the appeal of using a console application for text editing (yes, I can use Vi fine). It is like tying one hand behind your back and then claiming it makes you "more efficient" once you learn how to do everything one-handed.
- dysoco 14y agoMost of Vim users use GVim, and Emacs defaults to a graphical interface.
- sp4rki 14y agoNot necessarily I believe. That assumption is pretty much community, geography, age, OS, and niche dependent. I use - and have for at least 10 years - a combination of Vim, Tmux, and the usual linux utils under Zsh (I actually used screen for the first few years) for my text editing needs. That being said, I learned Vim in Linux at the same time I was learning C when I was a kid. I've noticed that generally people that started on the Rails bandwagon (which I love btw) or on OSX as their first dev platform use Mvim/Gvim. That said, I've noticed the more "unixy" people using Vim on a terminal. There are exceptions to both rules of course. Not my intention to get a debate going about this though, just offering a slightly differing point of view.
- md81544 14y agoI don't know why, I actively dislike gvim and use vim exclusively from the command line... even though it has the same functionality.
- devb0x 14y agoKomodo Edit is pretty good too. Have you tried it?
- jonascopenhagen 14y agoI second that. It's free and works on both Mac, Windows, and Linux.
- musiic703 14y agoI've been coding for about 8 months and just used regular desktop notepad lol. So noobish but yea I'm trying to see what code text editor people recommend
- jvenable 14y agoWingIDE for Python... Notepad++ for other tasks
- nXqd 14y agoVim. But I'm a little bit confused when using vim with big file, it's getting slow. It'd be great if any of you guys already have the solution
- taf2 14y agoMight be your term if its slow vim will be slower... For example Osx terminal.app is slow...
- crazydiamond 14y agoThis slowness could also be due to keeping a swap/backup file. Maybe try switching that off. For that poster above, I've never understood the appeal of gvim or macvim, I am very happy with vim in a console (with tmux.) Perhaps there are some plugins that work better under (mac|g)vim.
- arbus 14y agoI had a similar problem with editing large files with vim on terminal. I switched to using iTerm2 and the heavy input lag disappeared
- gtmtg 14y agoTextMate 2 is awesome. I compiled it from the source on Github, so it was free, and I love the little features (like auto-indenting HTML tags and autocompleting brackets and the like) and the language compatibility and plugins.
- codegeek 14y agovim, gedit
- japhyr 14y agoEmacs, but I start my students off using Sublime Text 2.
- nacker 14y agoKate. Simple and beautiful. http://kate-editor.org/about-kate/ http://kate-editor.org/about-kate/ http://lifehacker.com/5911460/the-best-programming-text-editor-for-linux http://lifehacker.com/5911460/the-best-programming-text-edit...
- bti 14y agoDo you hide the chrome? Don't know if I could work with that much chrome in my face.
- sdogruyol 14y agoSublime Text 2 for sure.
- lsiebert 14y agoEnjoy? Enjoy is an interesting way to think about it. I guess probably gedit. Just enough features to be useful. If I could print from sublime text, I might put in the effort, because it seems like I could enjoy it. Notepad++ is my favorite in windows.
- udfalkso 14y agoVim
- redegg 14y agoEnjoy? Sublime Text 2. Use most of the time? IntelliJ Idea.
- stathisg 14y agoFor several years I was using Notepad++ (and before that PSPad) on Windows and Gedit on Linux, but I recently switched to Sublime Text 2 on both platforms. I also use NetBeans, mainly for coding in Java.
- johncoltrane 14y agoVim, both in a terminal and in a GUI window. The learning was slow in the beginning but patience paid.