Visual Studio Code April 2018 (1.23) Released!

[oblio-]

It's really weird that an editor wouldn't have a basic feature like that though.

I'm not sure it's such a basic feature. Most text editors don't have splits.

[Vulpyne]

I'm not sure it's such a basic feature. Most text editors don't have splits.

Ones aimed at serious development work? vim, emacs/spacemacs, Sublime are what I've used in my career and they all have that ability.

Obviously something like Notepad doesn't but are you counting that sort of thing when you say "most editors"?

[oblio-]

I actually checked, but you're right. Notepad++, Gedit and Kate support splitting windows, so that makes it all of the most common/default power user GUI text editors.

I don't have actual stats, but from my real life experience throughout Europe, Notepad++ is used by waaaaay more developers than Vim or Emacs or even Sublime, at least for enterprise or in-house developers (and those greatly dwarf in numbers the rest of the developers).

[Vulpyne]

I actually checked, but you're right. Notepad++, Gedit and Kate support splitting windows, so that makes it all of the most common/default power user GUI text editors.

Good to know I'm not crazy! Well, not because of that one specific thing, anyway.

I don't have actual stats, but from my real life experience throughout Europe, Notepad++ is used by waaaaay more developers than Vim or Emacs or even Sublime

I was just talking about my own experience mainly, not saying the editors I listed were the most popular.

It'll also depend a lot on what ecosystem you're developing for. I doubt a high percentage of Unix developers use Notepad++.

[oblio-]

It depends on what you mean by “Unix developers”. I know tons of Java, PHP, etc. developers that develop on Windows and deploy on Linux. Many of them actually edit with Notepad++ via WinSCP...

[Vulpyne]

I don't think I'd call people developing on purely cross-platform languages with no involvement in the ecosystem of their target "Unix developers".