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What non-IDE tekst editor do you use? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(Graphical) IDE's are great for development, but they're slow to start and heavy to run. Sometimes you just want to take a quick look at an xml or dockerfile and you don't want to spin up the whole IDE for that.

I've recently rediscovered notepad++ for that (on windows), what's your prefered easy-acces-tekst-editor?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

vim on any *nix box, Notepad++ when forced to use Windows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vim is cross platform, just in case you don't know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hadn't looked into that for a long time, will try. I think the biggest hurdle for me might be native Windows terminals still being shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah absolutely. I only use the graphical version (gvim) on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's the best solution for editing huge text files in Windows. The other text editors slow to a crawl with big files, but gvim has no problem.