Your Preferred Text Editor

[rowdy]

NOT Eclipse.

Struggling with it atm.  Grrrrrrrr

[swill]

Sublime Text

[Martyr]

Only use Notepad++

[Pacifist]

notepad++ for editing files, microsoft word for everything else, have a lot of macros and **** that only word uses

[vasouv]

+1 for Sublime Text (with Vintage/Vintageous mode)

What does the Vintageous Mode do?

[vyshane]

NOT Eclipse.

Struggling with it atm.  Grrrrrrrr

Yeah, I'm not a fan of Eclipse. Its code completion has a hard time keeping up with typing. I much prefer Android Studio (built on top of IntelliJ IDEA), even though it's still deemed early access preview.

[metalliqaz]

+1 for Sublime Text (with Vintage/Vintageous mode)

What does the Vintageous Mode do?

Without googling, i'm guessing it simulates vi.

[mrklaw]

vim and notepad++ on Windows
vim and rarely Sublime Text on Linux
bbedit or TextWrangler on Mac

[angelic_sedition]

+1 for Sublime Text (with Vintage/Vintageous mode)

What does the Vintageous Mode do?

Without googling, i'm guessing it simulates vi.

Yeah, it's a rewrite of Vintage. It's for ST3 and basically gives vim functionality.

[codymaust]

Personal:
Windows - vim
Linux - vim
OS X - MacVim

Work:
Visual Studio with a vi keybinding plugin
Notepad++ for remote files

After using vim for a year or so, it's really remarkable how slow I am in a "normal" editor

[frogamic]

I've been using geany all year but I just recently decided to learn vim, so far I've only used it for LaTeX. The more I learn the more I can see how efficient it's going to be once I master it. I think remapping the esc key to caps lock is essential, otherwise you have to move your whole hand every time you want to leave insert mode.

[rowdy]

I've been using geany all year but I just recently decided to learn vim, so far I've only used it for LaTeX. The more I learn the more I can see how efficient it's going to be once I master it. I think remapping the esc key to caps lock is essential, otherwise you have to move your whole hand every time you want to leave insert mode.

Sometimes it's surprising just how useable the old editors are, especially when compared to bells and whistles GUI-based editors.

I'd be lost without elvis (another vi close) on Unices.

Efficient use of keyboard, and (if you are familiar with the curses library) efficient character output too.

[KaLam1ty]

Sublime Text 2/3 for sure. So many nice plugins!

[belac]

I think remapping the esc key to caps lock is essential, otherwise you have to move your whole hand every time you want to leave insert mode.

How far away is your esc key on your board? It's just a pinky reach for me, but maybe I have banana hands. Just curious because there are a lot of... exotic... keyboard layouts around here.

[Djankie]

Sublime text 3

[frogamic]

I think remapping the esc key to caps lock is essential, otherwise you have to move your whole hand every time you want to leave insert mode.

How far away is your esc key on your board? It's just a pinky reach for me, but maybe I have banana hands. Just curious because there are a lot of... exotic... keyboard layouts around here.

It's a standard Filco TKL, I just measured and it's 7.5cm from the natural resting place of my pinky on the a key to the esc key. I never use caps lock and I can reach it just by moving my pinky.

[ishpeck]

I used to collect text editors like my wife collects shoes.  Eventually, tho', I ended up using emacs and all other editors fell by the wayside.  Once you front the effort of learning emacs, you really need _nothing else_ to manage text.

Before the great emacs enlightenment, my collection included (but was not limited to)...
 - http://www.geany.org/
 - http://www.sublimetext.com/
 - http://www.vim.org/
 - http://codelite.org/
 - http://www.pspad.com/
 - http://www.codeblocks.org/
 - http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
 - https://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
 - http://monodevelop.com/
 - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/visual-studio-2013
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor (seriously)
 - http://www.abisource.com/

Depending on my platform and mood, I may rotate between any one of those editors.  Never a one of them appeared to really give me what I was after in an editor or IDE so I considered them all to be rather interchangeable.

Editors I despised...
 - http://www.eclipse.org/
 - http://www.nano-editor.org/
 - http://www.contexteditor.org/ (but I had a buddy who adored it)
 - http://www.openoffice.org/
 - http://www.libreoffice.org/

[Cafeine]

I'm a Mac/iOS user and it depends on the task, but here are the text editors that I use on a daily basis:

1. Byword
   - general writing, blogging
   - desktop and mobile

2. Textmate
   - html and css
   - desktop

3. NVAlt
   - daily work log and notes
   - desktop

4. Simplenote
   - daily work log and notes
   - mobile

5. Taskpaper
   - task management
   - desktop and mobile

Are you ME ?   Well nope because I can't use Taskpaper. I like it but I'm going back to Wunderlist all the time for that.

And I love Byword but I'm using Ulysse III a lot too (1.1 is very nice).

[rowdy]

I used to collect text editors like my wife collects shoes.  Eventually, tho', I ended up using emacs and all other editors fell by the wayside.  Once you front the effort of learning emacs, you really need _nothing else_ to manage text.

Before the great emacs enlightenment, my collection included (but was not limited to)...
 - http://www.geany.org/
 - http://www.sublimetext.com/
 - http://www.vim.org/
 - http://codelite.org/
 - http://www.pspad.com/
 - http://www.codeblocks.org/
 - http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
 - https://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
 - http://monodevelop.com/
 - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/visual-studio-2013
 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor (seriously)
 - http://www.abisource.com/

Depending on my platform and mood, I may rotate between any one of those editors.  Never a one of them appeared to really give me what I was after in an editor or IDE so I considered them all to be rather interchangeable.

Editors I despised...
 - http://www.eclipse.org/
 - http://www.nano-editor.org/
 - http://www.contexteditor.org/ (but I had a buddy who adored it)
 - http://www.openoffice.org/
 - http://www.libreoffice.org/

Interesting - I've been through most of those.  And I do like ConTEXT - it is my preferred editor for Windows.

I was trying to find a cross-platform preferably GUI editor that I liked (where cross-platform = Windows, Mac OS and Linux).  Failed.

[Linkas]

Emacs +1

[Findecanor]

I tried sublime, but the code completion interface got in the way and I could find no way to turn that off.

[frogamic]

I think I'll have to give emacs a go when I have some free time, I can't write it off without trying it.

[rowdy]

I think I'll have to give emacs a go when I have some free time, I can't write it off without trying it.

emacs = Escape Meta Alt Control Shift, representing the various modifier combinations you need to enter commands.

So saying, I have a basic familiarity with it, but it is not installed as standard on many systems, so I usually just revert to a vi clone (or vi itself on BSD).

[davkol]

evil

[iri]

i use both vim and emacs.

ultraedit? notepad++? sublime? lame

[Mr. C]

VIm
Kate
Gvim
Textpad
Notepad++

[hexomega]

Linux/Mac:

VIM

Windows:
Notepad++
Visual Studio (full version)

[terran5992]

Notepad FTW

[Neal]

Evil

[SUPER432]

Emacs, it's what I'm most used to. Vim now and then just for fun, I'm pretty bad at it.

Notepad++ on Windows - never liked the xemacs ports or xemacs in general. I should look into it, but can you get emacs bindings for n++?

I think I'll have to give emacs a go when I have some free time, I can't write it off without trying it.

Personally my preference for emacs is in its movement options (c-A, c-E, etc.) and the kill ring (c-K, c-Y). It just feels faster than jockeying around with a mouse or whatever the alternative is. Some of the default OSX keybindings take after these, actually. Takes some time getting comfortable, and you may or may not like it. But good on trying!

That and if you ever customize anything, it's a decent adventure in learning lisp just to configure the editor.

[dustinhxc]

I love dreamweaver, notepad ++, and notepad.

[iri]

how can one LOVE notepad, let alone dreamweaver?

[davkol]

how can one LOVE notepad, let alone dreamweaver?

BDSM?

[dustinhxc]

how can one LOVE notepad, let alone dreamweaver?

Dreamweaver has too many annoying add ons but love the colors and w3c funtion. Notepad is easy and simple. Thats all you need sometimes. I use it 90% of the time.

[angelic_sedition]

Personally my preference for emacs is in its movement options (c-A, c-E, etc.) and the kill ring (c-K, c-Y). It just feels faster than jockeying around with a mouse or whatever the alternative is.

Movement feels faster than vim? :O Gotta love that control key.. eh? Evil would be a must for me.

[SUPER432]

Personally my preference for emacs is in its movement options (c-A, c-E, etc.) and the kill ring (c-K, c-Y). It just feels faster than jockeying around with a mouse or whatever the alternative is.

Movement feels faster than vim? :O Gotta love that control key.. eh? Evil would be a must for me.

Hey no cheap shots - I said I suck at vim! Emacs was the first editor introduced to me in college and I got used to it. I like the control key, but not sure my left wrist does..

Personally only faster for me compared to notepad.exe and stuff like that - no real movement options, no code indentation, etc.

[joneslee85]

Generally Vim.

Unfortunately I have to use Visual Studio all day

dude, are you .Net dev? I thought StackOverflow Rails

[iri]

main movement options in emacs are C-s and C-r. because emacs sucks in movement.

[lost_file]

The Sam Text Editor, because it is the real graphical successor to ed. Vi is a hack that Bill Joy admits to hardly ever using, only designed for back in the day terminals.

Sam is not restricted to a terminal. There are many pros to this.

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

Read on to become enlightened.

[MsYutai]

I'm using VIM for any kind of code development, I'm also using "Kate" editor on Ubuntu for copy-paste, notes, and whatnot. It's really nice since it has Block Selection, multiple files in one window (use forward and back buttons to move through them), auto-complete, and it's stable! I definitely recommend this one!

[iri]

wow, multiple files in one window! amazing!

[riotonthebay]

Emacs, the One True Operating System.

Constantly tweaking. Config lives here: https://github.com/zachallaun/emacs-config

[angelic_sedition]

Emacs, the One True Operating System.

Constantly tweaking. Config lives here: https://github.com/zachallaun/emacs-config

The "great operating system lacking only a decent editor"

[riotonthebay]

Emacs, the One True Operating System.

Constantly tweaking. Config lives here: https://github.com/zachallaun/emacs-config

The "great operating system lacking only a decent editor"

Bah, you just have to write it yourself. (In a language without lexical scoping by default.)

[daerid]

Unless it supports surround.vim, it's worthless.

[joneslee85]

The Sam Text Editor, because it is the real graphical successor to ed. Vi is a hack that Bill Joy admits to hardly ever using, only designed for back in the day terminals.

Sam is not restricted to a terminal. There are many pros to this.

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

Read on to become enlightened.

I don't know this editor, it seems only popular in Plan9 community, I still think Vim not vi is a better choice here

[SUPER432]

The Sam Text Editor, because it is the real graphical successor to ed. Vi is a hack that Bill Joy admits to hardly ever using, only designed for back in the day terminals.

Sam is not restricted to a terminal. There are many pros to this.

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

Read on to become enlightened.

I don't know this editor, it seems only popular in Plan9 community, I still think Vim not vi is a better choice here

It's definitely different and not something I'd see myself using, but it does have some cool stuff going on. Here's a vid of a walkthrough of it (if you can stay awake through a 20min+ tour of a text editor...)

http://research.swtch.com/acme

[TacticalCoder]

Constantly tweaking. Config lives here: https://github.com/zachallaun/emacs-config

Now that's some serious Emacs config you have there! I decided to split mine in several files as it was getting too big 

The ones I'm using all the time that I didn't see in your .emacs are : ace-jump-mode, expand-region, multiple-line-edit. I discovered all three of them by watching Magnar Sveen / magnars' "Emacs rocks" series if I'm not mistaken (I think expand-region and multiple-line-edit are both from him). The concept behind ace-jump-mode has to be biggest time saver ever invented (it's a copy/port of vi(m)'s EasyMotion, where I think the idea originated). I've never seen anything like this and now moving the cursor to any character on screen typically takes three keys at most (and you can jump to other windows and frames too: so jumping to another window/frame, directly to the specific character you want, takes only three or four keypresses: it's really wild). It has been ported to other editors too (including IntelliJ IDEA). It took me about two minutes to get used to and now I'm totally addicted

Oh and it's great to see there are other Clojure programmers around!

[riotonthebay]

Constantly tweaking. Config lives here: https://github.com/zachallaun/emacs-config

Now that's some serious Emacs config you have there! I decided to split mine in several files as it was getting too big 

The ones I'm using all the time that I didn't see in your .emacs are : ace-jump-mode, expand-region, multiple-line-edit. I discovered all three of them by watching Magnar Sveen / magnars' "Emacs rocks" series if I'm not mistaken (I think expand-region and multiple-line-edit are both from him). The concept behind ace-jump-mode has to be biggest time saver ever invented (it's a copy/port of vi(m)'s EasyMotion, where I think the idea originated). I've never seen anything like this and now moving the cursor to any character on screen typically takes three keys at most (and you can jump to other windows and frames too: so jumping to another window/frame, directly to the specific character you want, takes only three or four keypresses: it's really wild). It has been ported to other editors too (including IntelliJ IDEA). It took me about two minutes to get used to and now I'm totally addicted

Oh and it's great to see there are other Clojure programmers around!

Cool, thanks for the tips! I do use ace-jump-mode, but I've not yet set up expand-region or multiple-line-edit. (Magnar Sveen's screencasts are great.)

I modeled the giant-one-file-config after this: http://milkbox.net/note/single-file-master-emacs-configuration/. It's worked really well, actually. You'll notice a bunch of lines that start with ";;-- ..." where "..." is something that looks namespaced – that's because I've hooked into imenu to turn those lines into sections (https://github.com/zachallaun/emacs-config/blob/master/init.el#L136), which combined with helm give me a really nice way to navigate the file . It took some getting used to, but I like not having to manage many files.

[nuclearsandwich]

The Sam Text Editor, because it is the real graphical successor to ed. Vi is a hack that Bill Joy admits to hardly ever using, only designed for back in the day terminals.

Sam is not restricted to a terminal. There are many pros to this.

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/

Read on to become enlightened.

What mouse do you use for sam/acme? I stopped using it when Thinkpads stopped having three dedicated mouse buttons. Have you rebound mouse 3 to mouse 4 on some gaming mouse?