for me it's vim because: >i already know it >it can do everything i need to do for editing code >it is already installed on everything >super lightweight and fast
i occasionally do work on java code in Eclipse but i installed the vim plugin so all my keystrokes are vim-like
other options: >emacs >notepad++ >sublime >BBedit
anyone who says "nano" i will be embarassed for. anybody who says "i only use jupyter notebooks" i will openly say is a brainlet, but will secretly envy
VS Code. It has everything I need right out of the box. It's autism free. I do use Emacs if I'm in a terminal though, not suitable for programming.
Matthew Rodriguez
>emacs >not suitable for programming Leave
Anthony Bennett
whatever I feel like
day to day, I use notepad++ when I'm on windows, fucking love it if I'm not on Windows, I'm probably using nano or mousepad because I don't really need a fancy text editor there -- the former works over ssh, the latter is light and supports syntax highlighting (so does nano, but it's what I've associated text files with in my file manager, and it integrates better when I'm doing primarily gui-driven shit)
Jordan Scott
Vim feels like one of those things where you have to keep using it almost everyday or else you'll forget how to use it.
Jayden Wood
If you're not using ed get the fuck off my board
Jackson Lopez
t. boomer
Lincoln Taylor
kek, ed.
just for any lurkers here who don't know that this is a joke: if you can write one sentence in ed without losing your mind you must be the kind of guy who's very comfortable with punchcards. YOU DON'T EVEN SEE THE TEXT YOU'RE WORKING ON! it's literally from the era before they had monitors and instead waited for the printers to print shit out
Jaxson Hill
>YOU DON'T EVEN SEE THE TEXT YOU'RE WORKING ON! You can print more than one line.
Nathan Morgan
bfrbf
Henry Long
you'd print off (at least part of) what you were editing then you'd make your changes
ed's only problem is that it's basically anti-user-friendly if something goes wrong, all you get is: ?
Dominic Ramirez
notepad++ >im unbanned yey
Luis Hill
>if something goes wrong, all you get is: >? Press h to see the error and H to have it automatic print errors. This is for the GNU version at least.
Emacs when I need an IDE; vim when I need a quick text editor; gedit when I am lazy and I dont want to open a term for vim.
John Adams
stop making lewd OPs
Luke Rogers
cant believe more dont use emacs
sad
John Myers
Calling all left handed people, how do you use vi? Do you set a custom config?
Jordan Howard
If I'm slapping together a quick single-file project for testing something, I use nano. I'd like to get comfortable with vim eventually, but I'd rather not piss away time on learning how to use vim when I'm never going to use any of the capabilities it offers over nano. Nano is simple, intuitive, and it does what I need it to do.
For Java and Kotlin, I use IntelliJ exclusively. Unbelievably powerful IDE, it practically writes the code for you. I put it into distraction-free mode and use hotkeys to access project navigation/build command/VCS tools/etc.
For C, C++, Python, and Nim, I use Atom (please don't hurt me). It's fucking cancer but I haven't found a replacement that isn't a downgrade. I jump between projects a lot, so the project manager plugin is really nice to have. Its syntax highlighting and code completion both work way better than Notepad++ and Gedit, too.
Thomas Ramirez
Emacs is in many ways weird and terrible. It's still the best text editor in existence, though. I actually feel a slight sexual pleasure just thinking about emacs, at this point.
Is it too faggotic to say I use Atom for writing programs? I use notepad++ for all other kinds of text editing.
Carter Turner
I don't understand how anyone uses vim without line numbers. In what way would it ever be bad to have line numbers visible?
Easton Watson
for copying and pasting. i only use vim inside my terminal (iTerm) so if i don't need the line numbers, it's better if i can copypaste without the line numbers getting in there.
doing a quick :set invnumber is easy, i bet there's even a shorter one
Anthony Rodriguez
I tried a variety of them. They all have countless problems.
>Atom Painfully slow, however very comfy overall and a huge support for a variety of things. My second pick despite of the slow speed.
>VSC Some claim it's Atom, but better. Wrong. The support is worse, the entire interface is more loaded, it feels crammed and is only a tiny bit faster than Atom.
>Brackets Actually decent initially, but as soon as you install any sort of plug-ins, it basically goes to Atom speeds, however with even more lag. Every single time you open the plugin manager, it loads for 5 seconds. Just sloppy and bloated. The configuration is shittily implemented.
>Sublime Actually pretty decent, tolerably fast, but with less support. Not much to complain about otherwise other than the price.
>Vim Very snappy, very fast, but absolute mess with the vim language. Very good however if you're willing to out up with that shit.
>Notepad++ Extremely fast, but just lacks enough support plug-in-wise to make it a viable option for everything.
>Emacs Unlike with Vim, Elisp is actually useable. It provides virtually everything you need, but also requires a LOT of time to properly set up. A tiny bit slower than Vim, but otherwise toptier. It's my favorite and the one I use. Also: Evil and Org mode.
Colton Moore
>emacs requires a LOT of time to properly set up. this is so true. all the guys i know who use emacs -- if they get a new computer it's like a full day of them tweaking it to be just exactly what they like. and then they have to go through whatever machinations are needed to make sure they can edit files on remote machines in their local emacs, because their emacs is so finely tuned to their own liking.
vim guys, otoh, we ssh onto wherever and we're good to go, with maybe a quick copypaste of a few lines into the .vimrc.
emacs is like setting up a beautiful house and farm with all the amenities, learning vim is like learning to survive in the wild
Juan Parker
this
Jackson Brown
> i occasionally do work on java code in Eclipse but i installed the vim plugin so all my keystrokes are vim-like
>super lightweight and fast nigger my .vimrc is 50MEGABYTES
Carson Robinson
The guys you know who use emacs are fucking stupid for two reasons. They should know at least the basics of all the editors present in *nix systems by default (vi(m), ed, emacs...) if they log on to remote machines frequently. And reason number two is just have your config on a fucking remote repository so that you can use your setup on any other machine with little to no tweaking.
Adam Smith
or just use tramp to connect to the remote machine directly
Dylan White
How does one installs vim with gui front-end on Microdick Wangblows ?
Gavin Johnson
Reminder that Emacs can't show unbroken vertical indent lines
Austin Nguyen
emacs is so much more than a text editor, so much better people joke that emacs is an OS, but they're right. I always just use the easiest to setup linux distro because I know it's just a platform to install emacs on. There is almost nothing you can't do in emacs, the only two programs I really interact with substantially anymore is emacs and firefox, and I use exwm and vim bindings to make firefox more like emacs. You might ask: "why use emacs for everything?", but the reason is that emacs is better than everything. People swear by terminal applications, why? because the terminal provides a consistent light weight interface to everything you need. Emacs is like this, but better. Emacs provides a (decently) light weight _Configurable_ interface to every thing you ever need. Emacs provides the tools to change those programs, and facilitates you to change, improve, customize, and make new programs via it's self documenting nature and the elisp programming language.
My favorites after that would be emacs, nano, and gedit, but I don't really actually use anything but micro.
Dominic Rogers
>Microsoft(tm) GitHub enjoy your botnet
Andrew Clark
I use GNU nano because I've internalized the shortcuts so hard that i can't use any other editor anymore.
Not that I'd want to, nano isn't lacking in features at all, and any feature I was lacking, like quickly jumping to function definitions in projects, can be whipped up with a simple shell script.
Vim is a nice text editor but I want an actual IDE if I'm going to do development. I have considered emacs but haven't gotten around to learning it, though I would like to one day.
Would people recommend checking out vs code as an alternative to intellij and such?
Grayson Green
for me it's vscode because i get paid to write code and productivity is important for the team
students and sysadmins stay with vim, you're all useless anyways
Noah Gonzalez
emacs
Justin Long
VSCode can't display your project in multiple windows. It is objectively inferior to Webstorm for this... unless you only have one monitor for some reason. VSC also can't stack tabs properly, it just becomes one line with a really long scroll. Fucking stupid.
Joshua Stewart
These are features Visual Studio has btw but VSCode doesn't because they are fucking lazy.
>unless you only have one monitor for some reason show us you loneliness station faggot
James Cook
I've never even worked somewhere without at least 2 monitors
Jason Phillips
T. Brainlet whose never used ed. Ed is the only real command line editor. Everything else is GUIs that sometimes rendered in a terminal. Ed is actually scriptable.
fucking nano. what is wrong with nano. holy fucking goddamn shit there is literally nothing wrong with nano
Brayden Lewis
No t. left handed
Jack Rogers
It’s the vim life for me. I don’t know if I’m faster than in other editors (though it feels like I am) but I prefer its paradigm in general. I’ve been using it daily for about 3 years now.
Are you talking about emacs? Cause if so, not for me. I have some files in other folders, so it easier to use a git repo. But if you're talking about Vim, I agree. Vim is waaaay easier and faster to setup on another machine, but if you're using a new PC to work, 30-60s of setup isn't much, and if you're using a remote machine, tramp is fucking awesome.
Elijah Brooks
I use emacs, with Evil mode though. I think the modal editing model allows for more text-editing efficiency with fewer key chords (I don't know that vi keybindings are optimal, but they're good enough). However, I like how deeply customizable Emacs is and it has some key packages that I couldn't do without, like SLIME and Magit.
Cooper Sullivan
>emacs key chords watching coworkers who use vanilla emacs keybindings always reminds me of stenographers. might as well code in plover
Evan Myers
Could you share your config?
Logan Flores
I was talking about emacs. What kind of config do you have?
Mine is written in org-mode and my config for the most part just loads the orgfile. So, if I need to use another machine, I'll just get access to both files, boot emacs and I'm done. And my config file is huge, I've been using it for years now.
Jacob Adams
I also have an org config file that's pretty big, because I like to document every piece of it, but I also have some configs specifically for eshell that I keep separate on a file in order to spawn a new emacs frame with eshell on it with a shortcut, and the aliases file for eshell. I also like to keep EXWM and mu4e config in separate files, I just like it better this way for no special reason at all.
Benjamin Adams
Your friends are dumb. Free Dropbox account then run
ln -s ~/Dropbox/.emacs ln -s ~/Dropbox/.emacs.d
Then you can edit that config and it will available everywhere.
Daniel Morgan
This is dumb, you only need to store the actual config files (init.el or .emacs), with that approach every file created by emacs will be stored, even dynamic files.
what color scheme is that? I'm looking for a comfy light scheme
Easton Myers
gedit, it does everything I need it to and has some basic features like syntax highlighting and a file pane at the side for quickly accessing files. In the terminal I use vim or nano depending on how I'm feeling.
