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Poll: What Text Editor Do You Use?
- 51Cards 13y agoEditPlus
- catenate 13y agoAcme
- dysoco 13y agoI'm a big fan of the Unix/Plan9 philosophy and I write C and Go... but I really can't get over Acme, using the mouse is so unproductive for me. Plus I need some syntax highligting.
- catenate 13y agoUsing the mouse or keyboard is a rounding error compared to the time and errors I save by keeping the commands I use in per-directory guide files. I type out a command once, then later modify it slightly repeatedly to suit new needs, and highlight it and run it. I've never found navigating to and selecting text with keyboard commands as fast and forthright and mindless as just moving the mouse and clicking to locate the cursor and select a range of text, and I used Emacs for 11 years. Also, since Acme binds common operations like cut, paste, and execute to mouse chords, I don't leave the mouse to do these things. I don't dig candy-colored text, so the lack of syntax highlighting is a plus for me.
- fosap 13y agoCurious: Are you using AcmeSAC, native plan9, 9vx or hosted inferno or the Plan 9 from Userspace?
- catenate 13y agoFor a few years I used each of Wily on a Sun box, then Acme SAC on Windows, and now hosted Inferno on Linux. I could use acme from plan9port, but I prefer Inferno because the whole environment gives me other nifty OS stuff like Inferno's shell sh and /env, which I make use of for the build tool I'm writing. The trickiest part of using Inferno is dealing with the different paths to files depending on whether you're running under emu (emu uses /n/local for files under host /, and / for files under host's /usr/inferno), or on the host (host uses / for files under emu's /n/local, and /usr/inferno for files under emu's /).
- Void_ 13y agoThis again?
- phaer 13y agoThere are two Emacs entries at the moment.
- gngeal 13y agoThat's because recent versions of Emacs don't fit into one poll option anymore. :-)
- cytzol 13y agoBBEdit
- antoko 13y agoWhy no Visual Studio? I personally don't use it but all our machines at work have it installed.
- wolfgke 13y agoAnd Visual Studio.
- rrival 13y agoBBedit
- jurre 13y agoXcode mostly
- jasonlotito 13y agoThe confusion here, of course, is that text editor implies something. IntelliJ, for example, is not a text editor, and I do not use it as such. The question implies (though, luckily, the answers are not limited) that you use just one text editor. Quite the opposite in fact, I feel if you are just using one tool for the job (always in vim, for example), you are unnecessarily limiting yourself to your tool set. When all you have is a hammer, and all that jazz. Edit: I should note that I'm just being whiny this morning. I should go back to playing with code.
- random42 13y agoEmacs is mentioned twice in the list of options.
- jph 13y agoM-x uniquify-all-lines-buffer ;)
- dochtman 13y agonano
- binarymax 13y agoGood results here from a year ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717754
- walt74 13y agoBBEdit
- jakub_g 13y agoNotepad++, Eclipse, Vim depending on what I'm doing. Eclipse when frequently moving between many files in a project, quickly opening project files via CTRL-SHIFT-R, and to benefit from configured project stuff like file synchronization or some plugins e.g. for legacy VCS that we partially use and I don't want to waste time to learn. Notepad++ mostly when performing some find & replace operations and opening files that are not imported into Eclipse. Occasionally Vim when I want to do sth quickly without leaving the console, like minor editing, Git commit messages etc.
- a3n 13y agoVim. I use Notepad++ when I have someone looking over my shoulder, as most people in my group don't spend their day in a text editor and never have. Those people have Notepad++.
- Aardwolf 13y agoMissing in the list: Geany
- burstmode 13y agoSlickEdit
- uladzislau 13y agoI'm wondering why BBEdit is missing in this poll? It's one of the best Mac text editors. Rock solid with a great support and tons of powerful features right out of the box. Some users like apps that just work - you don't need to waist hours to customize, add plugins, tweak and turn.
- cstross 13y agoBBEdit++
- rpwilcox 13y agoBBEdit +1 from me too. I abandoned BBEdit for Textmate around 2006 I think. I went back to BBEdit when Textmate looked like it was a dead-end (2011 ish?). Three things that drew me (back) to BBEdit: 1. Most of the features from TextMate I used made it to BBEdit (Cmd-T, packages) 2. BBEdit has been around for 20 years... I really don't want to pick up, learn, and spend years investing in a flash in the pan editor. 3. I *really* don't want to fiddle with lisp to configure my editor There are still some features in TextMate I miss. For example, TM's language grammers are still lightyears ahead of BBEdit's, and having written half a dozen grammers for each platform I know of which I speak. But BBEdit is solid and pretty great. Also, shell worksheets are pretty amazing. Disclosure: I run @bbedit_hints on Twitter.
- jsmcgd 13y agoLighttable is already very pleasant to use. It's light on features but it's new and it's coming along nicely.
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- krapp 13y agowhen i'm on windows, notepad++ and sublime text, when i'm on linux, gedit.
- claudius 13y agoed is missing. And, yes, I used that thing over telnet in this century to do coding for a MUD…
- abrahamsen 13y agoEd is the standard text editor. http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
- claudius 13y agoDo you mean that it isn’t necessary to list it here because everybody uses it all the time and listing it would render the poll senseless?
- tikhonj 13y agoI like Emacs. Enough to vote for both Emacs options :P. With something like Evil, you can get most of the benefits of Vim combined with all the power of Emacs. I'm not a user myself, but it sounds awesome--I'm considering learning Vim commands just to take advantage of it. The only downside is the learning curve. And I think there is a philosophical point to make here: for a tool you'll be using as much as your text editor, the learning curve should not really matter. Even if it takes you a while to get used to Emacs/Vim, the productivity benefit will more than pay for itself. I think optimizing for a shallow learning curve is simply focusing on the wrong thing and actively counter-productive. If that's your only take-away from all this, I'll be content.
- SatvikBeri 13y agoEmacs-Vim combinations are a lot of fun. I used Emacs+Viper (or VILE or evil or something-can't really remember) along with SLIME when learning lisp, and it was definitely the best of both worlds. The Vim philosophy of separating editing and typing works really well with code-as-data philosophy of lisp, and Paredit + a built-in REPL made changes and feedback nearly instant. Playing with the editor was almost as fun as actually writing programs!
- camus 13y agoBit afraid of emacs, but now that i began learning LISP with gcl , i might look into it. Is it harder than VIM ?
- tikhonj 13y agoOh no, certainly easier than Vim. But the important point is that how difficult something is should not stop you from learning it: what matters is how much benefit you can get from it. And you can certainly get a lot of benefit from Emacs!
- crazygringo 13y agoMissing in the list: Chocolat
- citruspi 13y agoYeah, I noticed. +1 for Chocolat
- buster 13y agoDoes IntelliJ and Eclipse really qualify as text editor here? I'd say i'm using a mixture of vim (server side work), Sublime Text (quick text editing) and IntelliJ/PyCharm (coding).
- 6ren 13y agoEmacs is so good, it's listed twice to dilute the votes and give other editors a chance.
- green7ea 13y agoAs an emacs user I voted for both and I'm pretty sure most emacs users did the same. This doesn't really dilute it but gives the impression that emacs is more popular (that and we yell louder).
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- hsmyers 13y agoEditPlus---although at some point I will have built in to Sublime all of the features that I like. That said I'll probably always use it. Face it since I use notepad, It's unlikely that I'll abandon any editor that fits a need. I particularly like Emacs ability to write a task oriented package as a kind of drop in edit/language. Hell, I use editors like I use languages---use the right one for the task at hand.
- Fuzzwah 13y agoAnother editplus user here.
- TallboyOne 13y agoVIiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmmmm thunder and lightening clashes
- mazsa 13y agoLyX:)
- jere 13y agoI was recommended Text Wrangler and I've been using that while on Mac.
- rapsourly 13y agoOP: Please add LightTable if possible. I don't use it, but I am curious about its trajectory.
- tlarkworthy 13y agoGeany (mssing) and PyCharm (I will vote that as ~IntelliJ)
- cheez17 13y agoEvernote
- sohamsankaran 13y agoTextWrangler
- Lexarius 13y agoSublimeText
- arc_of_descent 13y agoVim since the past 10 years.
- apas 13y agoSublime Text for code, Mou for editing Markdown, iA Writer when I need to write long form blog posts. I also occasionally use Google Docs & Pages when I need to edit documents for college. Mou, to the best of my knowledge, provides the best real-time live preview of Markdown code. iA Writer really helps when you need to focus (had tried Byword previously but didn't impress me -- maybe I'll give it a try again.) And, well, what can one say about Sublime? Love it.
- shiftb 13y agoI don't see RubyMine on here so I voted for IntelliJ. SublimeText is my fallback and vi is fallback^2.
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- milliams 13y agoKate and KWrite
- bsimpson 13y agoChrome Dev Tools might be my answer next year. If you haven't seen the fantastic work Paval has been doing to allow you to write your app without leaving the browser, check out this talk from Thursday: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325206725 https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/325206725
- ali433 13y agowinvi32
- rdl 13y agoI use 3+epsilon different editors depending on the situation. I use Sublime when I'm on a Mac; vim when I'm ssh'd to a remote system and just need to quickly edit a file, or even sometimes locally if I just need to add one or two lines. Emacs if I'm on a remote or non-Mac system and need to do more in-depth editing. What I really love is just "cat" to a file, though.
- Fabryz 13y agoSublime Text 2 + plugins for frontend projects (HTML/CSS/JS) Netbeans for backend projects (PHP)
- GnarfGnarf 13y agoI'm not an Emacs user. I assume Emacs can open a 4GB file in less than a second?
- m00natic 13y agoDepends on the machine. With https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi you can explore arbitrarily large file in instant.
- informatimago 13y agoThere's two emacs options!
- ichichich 13y agoSimpleEdit
- ghosttie 13y agoEditPlus
- jusob 13y agoKate. I just need the syntax coloring and the terminal.
- dennisgorelik 13y agoVisual Studio SQL Server Management Studio MS Word Far Manager Outlook Google Docs
- korny 13y agoLight table!
- igreulich 13y agoMacVim, vi, Emacs (though by far the least often), Texmate 2, Sublime Text 2 (as much as Emacs), Mou...
- tovmeod 13y agogeany when on ubuntu