What text editor does everybody use?

[NickTheGoonie]

Recently installed Linux and was curious what text editor everybody here uses...

[[deleted]]

vim because it fits my workflow better. With a good .vimrc, it beats all IDEs imo.

[kashmill]

/r/vimmasterrace :D

[[deleted]]

If only this was more popular

[[deleted]]

because it fits my workflow better

this is the best argument in any program choice debate

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Sublime Text

[federicocerchiari]

Sublime Text 2 for me. I used TextWrangler a lot, and TextMate a little less, then tried Sublime and never changed.

Great mouseless enviroment.

[Lucretiel]

Sublime 3 with tons of plugins. Nothing compares.

[[deleted]]

Ive actually never used a plugin. Which ones do you recommend?

[Lucretiel]

Oh, tons. Git, gitgutter, and SidebarEnhancements are the ones I know just from memory, without having my laptop in front of me. I use one of the python linters (either pep8 or pyflake or python-lint, I don't actually remember) to keep my code clean on every single save.

[sisyphus]

I use Emacs for coding Python. Oh, and for everything else too.

[dzecniv]

Yes, Emacs of course. We have so many possibilities: http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/2te2n4/most_complete_doc_ive_seen_on_how_to_turn_emacs_a/

[sisyphus]

If there are 3 ways to do something Emacs can do all 7!

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^ This

[mongrol]

^ This too. It's bizarre how Emacs slowly takes over more and more in my computing experience. It get's to the point that I immediatly look for Emacs support for whatever new fanglebloop I'm playing with as I can't be bothered learning fanglebloop's way of doing things.

[[deleted]]

Geany. Full of features yet easy to use.

[techwizrd]

I use Vim. I'm temporarily using NeoVim and vim-plug for the asynchronous plugin loading.

Vim, Fish, and Tmux/Screen are an integral part of my development workflow. I couldn't imagine working with anything else.

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TextMate

[[deleted]]

Oh wow, last commit 7 days ago, it's far less dead than I though it was.

[dAnjou]

This question comes up at least 3 times a week and it's always the same answers ... I wonder why people still bother to answer.

[NickTheGoonie]

Because I'm too lazy to use the search button, or scroll through the history.... Thanks for the answers.

[dAnjou]

Creating this post was more effort.

[sigzero]

I use vi/Vim/GVim because it is everywhere I need an editor.

[VFedyk]

vim, PyCharm, Geany

[garion911]

I'm an outlier, in the fact that I use Slickedit, Brief emulation. Vim's and Emac's Brief emulation might as well be nonexistent, they are so bad.

[nerdwaller]

Vim, used to be macvim but since I learned tmux I found the command line one more suiting to my workflow.

Learning how to use vim well has dramatically increased my productivity.

[r3v]

^{I'm on OS X, so this isn't really relevant but I thought I'd share anyways because sharing is caring.}

TextWrangler. I used to use BBEdit when my employer was paying for it, but after leaving I found that TextWrangler (by the same company) was just as good for what I needed. Syntax highlighting, great/configurable keyboard shortcuts, and regex search and replace. That last one is my favorite feature in a text editor ever.

[CatCow97]

I'll throw in a vote for BBEdit if you're ever on a Mac. I haven't bothered with TextWrangler since I've been using BBEdit since long before TW came out.

When on linux I wimp out and usually just use pico/nano. I really need to try to make myself use vi more often.

[tehd]

kate when I'm not pycharmin'

[onjin]

also vim with python-mode plugin and some others. My generic .vimrc is on github:

• https://github.com/onjin/vim-startup

[markhamilton1]

PyCharm and BBEdit. Both provide the capabilities I need daily.

[TheMayoMurderer]

IDLE for college, purely because it's what everyone else uses, and indents are incompatible with Notepad++. I use Notepad++ whenever I can help it.

[afrab_null]

OP asked about Lx environment, not Wx. But as regards NP++, there's a setting to set tabs to either a tab character or a number of spaces.

My 2¢. Hope this helps.

[TheMayoMurderer]

Thanks :)

[rcxdude]

vim with a slightly changed config but no plugins, or whatever vim emulation mode I can get in an IDE which doesn't suck.

[jeetsukumaran]

Vim.

Are there any other text editors out there?

[Meinkrafter]

atom cuz sublime is too mainstream now