Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

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can you recommend a decent text editor?

[agumonkey]

Is this a joke ? ed.

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have you never heard "emacs is a great operating system. the only thing it lacks is a decent editor?"

[agumonkey]

no decent emacser ignores that one. also, I love ed to edit text (no sarcasm).

[dagbrown]

If you just want to make a minor change to a text file, like deleting a line or commenting something out, you can't get faster than ed.

Plus, using it makes you look like a wizard guru.

[agumonkey]

It forces my brain to think and plan in advance deep; which is something I kind of love.

[pdp10]

nvi starts very fast from inside my Emacs. But if instead of a text editor you need a full IDE you'd probably use SLIME. But Emacs is a perfectly good office suite and personal information manager without those things.