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What's the best text editor
This poll is closed.
emacs 0 0%
vim 11 20.00%
notepad 2 3.64%
notepad ++ 10 18.18%
textedit 2 3.64%
microsoft word 2 3.64%
notes.app 3 5.45%
vscode 7 12.73%
sublime or atomic or one of those 7 12.73%
textwrangler (remember that one?) 3 5.45%
<textarea> in the browser 2 3.64%
this thread 6 10.91%
Total: 25 votes
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Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
no I can’t use a text editor designed this century because [insert bizarre and implausible edge case]

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Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Wasn't there a YOSPOS goon who used to go sicko mode if you said anything bad about vim? Am I just imagining this? I swear I remember someone melting down about this in one of the earlier versions of the linux thread.

you just described 90% of yospos

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Vim is fine. Most of the people I work with seem to use it just fine without becoming terminal nerds

I mean that's what you literally are if you make the voluntary choice to use vim

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
insane dick energy

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
anything more complicated than edit.com is bourgeoisie decadence

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Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
emacs is many things: a blender front end, an operating system, a sink for excess greybeard energy

but being a good text editor is not one of those things

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