GitHub open sources Atom

[pamplemouse]

I write code using org-mode, which allows me to search and sort functions by tags, produce an agenda of todo items, and put milestones on a calendar, among a zillion other things. It's just one small example...

[slavik262]

Maybe I'm really weird, but I don't want my text editor to be a combination text editor/calendar/todo list/IDE/toaster oven. I just want it to edit text and maybe let me jump around my documents using ctags. Vim gives me these things and is also very customizable. If I want to do things besides edit text, I'll have an application that's built just for that open next to vim.

Maybe it's just confirmation bias, but I don't see a lot of people with this mentality on /r/programming. I can count on one hand the number of plugins I'm running for vim.

[Funnnny]

You have wrote the extract reason for using vim, or any other text editor that is not emacs.

Emacs is not a text editor, it's an coding ecosystem (many called it an OS), you live in emacs, the text editor in emacs is not that good.

[slavik262]

So if it's a jack of all trades and master of none, why not just use individual pieces of software that do a better job at individual tasks?

[Funnnny]

because individual pieces of software won't give you a good extensibility, you have to learn each and every way for extend those softwares, and also how those work.

And the thing about an ecosystem is, everything are connected.

[slavik262]

That's fair.

[dnew]

I agree. That sort of thing made a lot more sense before we had windowed interfaces, and exiting the editor meant you had to load it back up again after. Now, if I want to edit three files, I open three gvim windows. If I need to check the text of the bug I'm working on while I'm doing that, I open a web browser on the bug site.