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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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As the old (bad) joke goes: Emacs is a great operating system. Shame it lacks a good editor.

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

The biggest irony is it's often told by vim fanboys, who apparently don't realize a very comprehensive emulator of vim it is one of the editors Emacs offers. But mostly it seems to be told by people who don't even know what Emacs is, they just know they're meant to disapprove of it.

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

Frankly, I've seen it more often from Emacs users themselves, including while I used it myself for ~20+ years.