Whats the best text editor?

Eclipse

elvis

why even use a text editor when you can use an entire operating system to do all your computing needs.

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this
even works on wandows perfectly

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yes she is

vim with ycm, rtags/ctags and termdebug is great desu

>use vim
>spend entire time in insert mode
>move with arrow keys
People actually do this

Elvis the best.

intellij

This, but make sure to disable telemetry in config and add paths for auto complete if you have libraries living in weird places.

Pluma and notepad. they are the only editors whose text search still works when you open up a text file with over 2 million lines

The others are shit, and "muh terminal text editors" are extra extra^1024 shit that only autismos and hacker wannabes use

I regret to announce that he's right.
Alhtough it's microsoft product and electron shit, it's way better than sublime or atom.
Vim is OK when you are confined to terminal only.

My coworker does this before I forced her to use vimtutor.

Now she stays in insert mode and moves around with the arrow keys, but occasionally yanks or deletes a line and runs the odd :%s/foo/bar/g

There are only two contenders. Emacs and Vim.

Vim is great if you just need an editor.

Emacs is great if you want a IDE for many languages, a mail client and just about anything else that you can imagine.

Emacs looks like shit and it's hard to rice, which is probably why it hasn't caught on more.

Emacs is a better Vim than Vim

ed

When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, ‘C-h for help’ and ‘“foo” File is read only’. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.

Ed, man! !man ed

ED(1) Unix Programmer's Manual ED(1)

NAME
ed - text editor

SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.

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Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed because it's ED!

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs

Of course, on the system I administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

“Ed is the standard text editor.”

Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem$ ed

?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?

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Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.

"Ed is the standard text editor."

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN
SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!

When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!!
Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

TEXT EDITOR.

When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their
"edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely
you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.

Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you
are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should
not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE
SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE
FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

29MB runtime for a text editor.
The bloat itself.
Best text editor.

The guy who wrote emacs no longer programs because it ruined his hands. THAT'S why people don't use it. Maybe evil mode emacs is better at being vim than vim (I can't confirm), but emacs should default to the obviously better solution, modal editing, and dump this "key chord" horse shit. Also, vim is fast while emacs takes ages to load, which makes it a shit choice for quickly opening, editing, and saving a file, all in a quarter of the time it takes for emacs to boot. Emacs might be a decent operating system, but it's a shit text editor out of the box.

the BS is strong with this one.

I was a TA for an introduction to programming course where they first get to use the universities Linux machines. I wanted to raise them right so I unbound the arrow keys from everyone's vimrc before the class started.

Oh really?
emacswiki.org/emacs/RepeatedStrainInjury

that's not emacs' fault you fucking idiot.
Repetitive moves cause you strain.
You could get it just because you don't know how to place your fingers on your keyboard and type.

>There is folklore attributing a repetitive strain injury colloquially called Emacs pinky to Emacs' strong dependence on modifier keys,[52] although there have not been any studies done to show Emacs causes more such problems than other keyboard-heavy computer programs.

What's next? He ran Unix and it gave him cancer?

average vIM skyentist.

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>FootSwitches for Control key and other frequently used keys. For example I use two Usb pedals: one for Ctrl key, the other for Shift key, Shift+Space is bound to RET, and CapsLock for Backspace. This way I solved the problem with RSI.
emacs, not even once

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>that's not emacs' fault
Because all repetitive moves, regardless of the range of motion or abnormal postures, cause the same amount of strain. Oh wait, you're some namefaggot. Filtered.

Emacs users be like

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Wait so ed can apparently write files in directories you don't have write access to so long as it's done through a symbolic link in a directory you do have write access to? Am I understanding this correctly?

Fucking true power. No wonder it's the standard.

I use UltraEdit. It has Perl style RegEx and is fast and stable with multiGB data sets. And it doesn't make me want to dig out my eyes with corn holders like VIM does.

that sounds like an operating system bug though

The hero we deserve

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Kakoune. Vim, rethinked

nano

Bless you my child.

SciTE

Vim is only ok when youre not using vim correctly

Or just get a non-shit keyboard and press the Control key with your palm. It truly is a game changer once you realize you can do that and how handy it is :)

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vim is the brainlet's emacs

acme

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