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Vim/emacs are text editors and can be customized to act as IDE. IDEs are IDEs. If asked What is your primary IDE, you can still say emacs or VIM
by ankitml 13y ago
Vim/emacs are text editors and can be customized to act as IDE. IDEs are IDEs.
If asked What is your primary IDE, you can still say emacs or VIM
- gutnor 13y agoExactly! And when you use your IDE to edit text file they should be listed aswell using the same logic. When I said 99.9% of my text editing is done in Intellij. I also meant text editing outside of the project I'm working on: various config files, log file parsing, remote config files, ... Except for some extreme case like very large file, I rarely find the need to switch to another editor those days. Those days there is a large overlap between text editors and IDE. Both have made huge progress, so that outside java or c#, some text editor are perfectly serviceable IDE and conversely, IDE editor make decent editor.
- ankitml 13y agoNot sure of the converse part though. Anyway, I think we can continue arguing on semantics. This is not going to benefit anyone like the flame wars. Use what you feel good and productive. Be happy.