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What's the best text editor
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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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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
notepad++ is the best thing for editing text files but its not an IDE. for that you need visual studio

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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Lifroc posted:

notepad++ lmao, throw that poo poo out the window.

learn vim, then throw vim out the window and install emacs with evil. if you're a js developer install neovim and enjoy the constant churn and breakage you're so used to.

if you love satan and need to be productive, just use vscode.

vscode is a lovely text editor because it supposed to be an IDE which it is not

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

no I can’t use a text editor designed this century because linux

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

chaosbreather posted:

a text editor knows about the text of text files, an ide knows about the entire project and the concepts and structures defined within and how they relate, and provide tools for analysing and changing that structure, which are all integrated.

vscode is a very bad ide, or maybe a series of quite bad ides, or a very good text editor

vscode is a bad text editor because it tries to be an IDE and because its made with javascript. both of these mean its slow and more of a pain to use. like it cant even handle clearing consoles properly so if you try to do the most basic thing like powershell scripting it fucks up and is unusable

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