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Text Editors
| Atom
| >>269758 it was the first one I started using and the packages are enough to make it hard to try anything else.
| I use sublime/vscode and regularly open very large text files, sublime takes it like a champ but atom used to cash, last time I checked it didn't crash anymore but wouldn't render past a certain line number
| I dont get vim. I tried to use it, I've spent three hours trying to do what I instantly and without issues right after installing notepad++ or Atom.
The virtuality of its modes (am I typing now or not? will my input be put in line 2 or not? Why is it suddenly at the bottom, not top of my screen?), hidden shortcuts, extensive tutorial and documentaries make me tired. I'd rather use /u/ text input field to do my python stuff rather than this madness.
| >>270573
There's a very good reason why veteran Unix programmers use Vim. Vim is a power tool. Just like any powertool, it takes time and effort to learn. It took me about two weeks to get up to speed with Vim, and after that my editing speed skyrocketed.
What you might've missed when learning Vim is vimtutor (comes with vim, simply type into terminal). It's a simple text tutorial to teach you everything you need to know about Vim.
You're simply missing out by using inferior tools.
| I use JED ironically.
| Sublime, on all os, though under a terminal I still use vim. Atom... Yeah just try sublime at least.
>>e653b3 JED wasn't bad, integrated SSH is nice, and implemented better than sublime.
| Kate because I am a basic bitch who don't need no powerful text editor
| I started to learn EMACS some weeks ago, I want to use it for the macros and other things that surely are useful when you have to edit giant tables.
For most of the other stuff I just use Kate, because it has syntaxis highlight for pretty much any language and shares the color theme of my desktop environment.
I sometimes also use particular IDEs for some languages:
Spyder for Python, and Kdevelop for C/C++.
| neoVim, because I like Vim and neoVim somehow improves upon that. I honestly don't really know what it changes but it just being called neoVim justifies me using it.
| I only write on pieces of paper which I give to my friend which he inputs into computer.
| I use Vim on Linux and Notepad++ on Windows. The latter is a pretty good visual editor in my opinion, it has syntax highlighting, but you can configure it not to get in your way. It's also pretty lightweight.
| Vim is the best. Obiectively
| *i*x-cli-shell/bash with sed and awk, grep, echo, cat etc. with regular expressions, pipe | and file-output operator >>
Just kidding...
I use Kate and Vim.
I would like to use emacs instead of vim, but I currently have no time to do it.
| Vim is fantastic use it whenever its available, but right now I'm looking into spacemacs(emacs + vim)
just checking it out.
| Nano. Fuck eye mold.
| Just Atom. It takes a while to load but the interface looks nice and it has built-in Git and doesn't take a whole week to learn.
I work mostly with multiple small files, though.
| Textadept
I was looking for a Notepad++-like on Linux when I stumbled upon it, and it stuck with me. Love that "search by Lua pattern" feature.
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| What text editors do you g/u/rls use and why?
I personally use Vim and have noticed a very noticeable increase in editing speed compared to regular editors. Being able to have your hands on the keyboard homerow at all times with modal editing is vastly superior to using arrow keys and the mouse.