Ditto, and for everything vscode struggles with (e.g. super large files, esp find/replace in them), I just switch to Notepad++, which handles that stuff like a dream. p.s. For anyone interested in...
Ditto, and for everything vscode struggles with (e.g. super large files, esp find/replace in them), I just switch to Notepad++, which handles that stuff like a dream.
I think @reese was the one who told me about amVim. I have switched over from vscode-vim. It is a lot faster overall; vscode-vim is sluggy at best. But both of them lack a huge amount of features,...
I think @reese was the one who told me about amVim. I have switched over from vscode-vim. It is a lot faster overall; vscode-vim is sluggy at best. But both of them lack a huge amount of features, and it doesn't feel like there's any real progress being made in either of them.
I'm super happy with vscode but the vim bindings are lacking :(
I use VSCode as well for literally everything, and I love it. As a Windows user, the remote development in WSL feature is super convenient for me. Not having to worry about all the quirks of...
I use VSCode as well for literally everything, and I love it. As a Windows user, the remote development in WSL feature is super convenient for me. Not having to worry about all the quirks of Windows development is just so great.
I use an editor I wrote for myself. I'm doing scientific computing and I'm a bit peculiar when it comes to having interactive figures, integrated REPL and ways of executing code (specially after...
I use an editor I wrote for myself. I'm doing scientific computing and I'm a bit peculiar when it comes to having interactive figures, integrated REPL and ways of executing code (specially after years of using matlab). Even though it's limited in some ways and buggy I haven't yet found something that suits me better. I also use vs code when I need some features like multiple cursors.
I also use JetBrains's full suite of stuff both at work and home. Love all of them, don't mind giving them money at all. ReSharper is great but sloooow. I've very much enjoyed using Rider when...
I also use JetBrains's full suite of stuff both at work and home. Love all of them, don't mind giving them money at all. ReSharper is great but sloooow. I've very much enjoyed using Rider when messing around with Unity.
Emacs is not a very good editor out of the box so you need to configure it. But since it is a very old piece of software, personalizing it requires you to search stuff online, program, understand...
Emacs is not a very good editor out of the box so you need to configure it. But since it is a very old piece of software, personalizing it requires you to search stuff online, program, understand its pitfalls, and knowing a little bit of every Linux tool/utility that communicates with it.
For example, if you want to set up a dictionary, you'll soon discover what are aspell and/or hunspell. Additionally, if your native language is not english you will probably have a bunch different dictionaries, and will have to know how to pass different arguments to this utilities from inside Emacs. Stuff like this happens all the time and forces you to understand your tools.
Another example is using Emacs to write LaTeX. For that I had to look up about different TeX engines (pdfTeX, XeTeX, etc.) and a bunch of other stuff, but in Overleaf I would simply press compile and not care about what was happening in the background.
Yet another example: when setting up my Python editing environment I found out about jedi, flake8, pylint, black, rope etc. It is not like I 100% understand all of this tools, but I know which pieces make up my final tool, while if I was using VScode I would simple install the Python package and be done with it.
It is also true that some times I don't have time to look into stuff and simply use VScode or Overleaf.
Used to use VSCodium. Might go back to it, I have to say I do miss the intelligent autocompletion for Go code. It's weird, the only IDEs that have that are either big non-native Electron behemoths...
Used to use VSCodium. Might go back to it, I have to say I do miss the intelligent autocompletion for Go code. It's weird, the only IDEs that have that are either big non-native Electron behemoths (Atom, VSCode) or just have a messy interface (LiteIDE) or one that doesn't integrate well at all with the desktop (Sublime).
So for the moment I've given up all that convenience for Gedit and/or GNOME Builder which are nice, native, well-behaved applications.
But if anyone knows how to get Golang autocomplete going on in either of these, please lemme know. GNOME Builder has "Ctags" support but I have no idea what that is and I have completely failed to find out how to make use of it despite much effort.
I use neovim with several plugins for searching, autocompletion and linting: https://gitlab.com/unduthegun/dotfiles/tree/master/nvim/.config/nvim I use it for editing OCaml, C and Python, as well...
I use it for editing OCaml, C and Python, as well as viewing logs and manpages.
Right now I'm waiting on the tree-sitter integration which will hopefully make syntax highlighting better. But it's more than enough for editing projects with hundreds of thousands of lines and I'm happy with it.
I move between ed(1), ex-vi(1), and vim(1). In vim I have some convenience plugins for vim-orgmode, and some things like clearing search highlights and making searches case insensitive. That's...
I move between ed(1), ex-vi(1), and vim(1).
In vim I have some convenience plugins for vim-orgmode, and some things like clearing search highlights and making searches case insensitive. That's generally all I've ever needed tbh. I turn syntax highlighting off in vim (and the other two don't have it).
I'm curious what you think of Kakoune? I have been a vimmer for years but I am pretty interested in Kakoune. The few times I have tried it I have been turned away by the lack of plugins and the...
I'm curious what you think of Kakoune? I have been a vimmer for years but I am pretty interested in Kakoune. The few times I have tried it I have been turned away by the lack of plugins and the sort of strange plugin architecture. I keep thinking about it though.
I love it. The instant feedback is awesome, specially with multiple selections. The command syntax is intuitive for me and since i didn't use vim that much in the past, it was quick for me to pick...
I love it. The instant feedback is awesome, specially with multiple selections. The command syntax is intuitive for me and since i didn't use vim that much in the past, it was quick for me to pick up.
My needs are simple so i just use it vanilla with little configuration. Don't use any plugins for now, so i don't miss anything.
Anyway, multiple selection is a delight to use. Specially when i use a bulkrename script i made (or the one within nnn) that puts all the filenames in a text file so i can rename using kakoune. Like when i need to rename a bunch of subtitle files (.srt) to match the names of the episodes of a season, it is so simple to select all the text until before the extension (.mp4), yank and just paste in the subtitles just before the .srt, hit :wq and done.
I switched from vim to kakoune about a year ago, after like 4 years of using vim as my primary editor. I have found that there are plugins for everything I need, and to me the plug-in architecture...
I switched from vim to kakoune about a year ago, after like 4 years of using vim as my primary editor. I have found that there are plugins for everything I need, and to me the plug-in architecture makes just as much sense as vim's, if not more. The best part is that writing a plugin for kakoune is super easy and extensible, so you can do essentially anything you want with it. I personally use the plugins plug.kak, kak-lsp, auto-pairs.kak, and a few more. You can see my config here. I also have a few scripts in my autoload directory, but I don't have those backed up apparently, so they are not there.
The only big downside is that major breakig changes can still happen, and probably will happen, but that is usually a 5 minute fix, if it even effects you. The other downside that I can think of is the documentation for the more in-depth stuff is mostly found in an issue on GitHub, not in the readme or wiki.
One cool thing, and the original reason I checked it out, is that the highlighters are region based, so when editing markdown or latex code blocks you can get syntax highlighting for the language you specify.
I recommend reading the migrating from vim guide if you're coming from vim, and giving kakoune a try!
Right now I mostly use vscode, but I plan on using Oni2 as soon as it's ready. I made my own theme for vscode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vyne.apostheme
Right now I mostly use vscode, but I plan on using Oni2 as soon as it's ready.
I swear by IntelliJ, or VS Code for smaller projects. I'm continually amazed by the things that the VS Code team has figured out how to do with Electron.
I swear by IntelliJ, or VS Code for smaller projects. I'm continually amazed by the things that the VS Code team has figured out how to do with Electron.
I bounce between VS Code and Sublime. I want to become more of a full-time Sublime user, but the Extensions for VS Code are more discoverable and often times more mature.
I bounce between VS Code and Sublime.
I want to become more of a full-time Sublime user, but the Extensions for VS Code are more discoverable and often times more mature.
Vs Code => VS Codium => Atom. I started in VS Code. It was fine. I had problems with plugins and getting things to work right but honestly my use cases are so minimal it was mostly from a lack of...
Vs Code => VS Codium => Atom.
I started in VS Code. It was fine. I had problems with plugins and getting things to work right but honestly my use cases are so minimal it was mostly from a lack of caring enough to fix it. Moved to codium. Had the same experience. Eventually switched to atom bc I have a coworker who cares a lot about his IDE and had a nice setup and did most the legwork for me so now I have a nice IDE and didn’t have to go through the headaches of setting it up and tweaking it. Both VS’s work really well I have nothing against them I’m just lazy
Visual Studio Code w/ Vim Keybindings + Vim VSCode for when I'm working on a single project for a while. The SSH plugin is really nice. Vim for logs and quicker edits. In the end, Vim is fast and...
Visual Studio Code w/ Vim Keybindings + Vim
VSCode for when I'm working on a single project for a while. The SSH plugin is really nice.
Vim for logs and quicker edits. In the end, Vim is fast and vim is available, and for some things a text editor like VSCode is just not the right tool.
either IntelliJ or Sublime when I'm working on Mac and notepad++ on windows. Tried VS Code couple times, just couldn't get into it. It's too bloated and slow. I could see myself taking the time to...
either IntelliJ or Sublime when I'm working on Mac and notepad++ on windows.
Tried VS Code couple times, just couldn't get into it. It's too bloated and slow. I could see myself taking the time to get used to it if I did more front end work.
On my Windows desktop I use VSCode. It's a good IDE, but I do notice some speed issues. Especially with PlatformIO it tends to hang sometimes for a couple seconds, sometimes it even needs to...
On my Windows desktop I use VSCode. It's a good IDE, but I do notice some speed issues. Especially with PlatformIO it tends to hang sometimes for a couple seconds, sometimes it even needs to reload the window.
On my Macbook I currently use TextMate, and have used Sublime Text in the past. Both are pretty fast and I like the overall feel of TexteMate better, but Sublime has better plugins
For just hammering out a Shell script, or editing a few lines of a single module or config, Kate. Its in the KDE ecosystem, so it has some integrations with stuff like Dolphin, and it can be used...
For just hammering out a Shell script, or editing a few lines of a single module or config, Kate. Its in the KDE ecosystem, so it has some integrations with stuff like Dolphin, and it can be used as a backend in other KDE programs (none come to mind, but there was at least one specialized editor that I realized was using all my Kate settings). Frankly not much more advanced than NP++, but it is fast and it has an absurdly wide array of highlighting syntaxes (and 99% of the time it guesses correctly which to use).
For any project with more than a file or two, PyCharm. Even non-Python things. Relative to Kate, it is fat and it is slow, taking up a gigabyte of RAM on average, but wow...the power. Ctrl-click to jump to declaration of any name, double-ctrl+up/down or alt-click to add more cursors, configurable inspections for everything, a keybind to instantly run Black, and even VCS integrations that correctly call to my YubiKey to sign/push commits.
It could be that I am just used to doing refactors the hard way, but JB really locked me in with this one.
I use ne, the nice editor. It's like nano in its "just type and it works" but like a GUI with visual menus at the top (when you press F1). Nice and fast, works well through ssh, configurable...
I use ne, the nice editor. It's like nano in its "just type and it works" but like a GUI with visual menus at the top (when you press F1). Nice and fast, works well through ssh, configurable keybinding, easy macros, fairly standard keyboard shortcuts, the list goes on.
I use TextMate 2.0. It’s the best native macOS text editor I’ve ever used. I don’t use IDEs as I don’t like being separated from my code. I think there’s such a thing as too much tooling.
I use TextMate 2.0. It’s the best native macOS text editor I’ve ever used. I don’t use IDEs as I don’t like being separated from my code. I think there’s such a thing as too much tooling.
For stuff like editing config files and writing a few lines of bash I use nano simply because I'm usually already in the terminal and why not. For actual programming I use Sublime. It's a good...
For stuff like editing config files and writing a few lines of bash I use nano simply because I'm usually already in the terminal and why not.
For actual programming I use Sublime. It's a good combination of simplicity and functionality, and it's not overly focused towards any individual language.
VScode, then VScodium. I’ve tried to setup vim/neovim for web dev, but I couldn’t even install plugins without running into weird errors, so I gave up.
VScode, then VScodium. I’ve tried to setup vim/neovim for web dev, but I couldn’t even install plugins without running into weird errors, so I gave up.
Ditto, and for everything vscode struggles with (e.g. super large files, esp find/replace in them), I just switch to Notepad++, which handles that stuff like a dream.
p.s. For anyone interested in reading more responses, this same question was asked last year too:
https://tildes.net/~comp/7i7/what_editor_do_you_use
Wow, can you read my mind? I was just thinking today that I’d love to use vim bindings in VS Code
Is there any advantage to amVim over VSCodeVim?
I think @reese was the one who told me about amVim. I have switched over from vscode-vim. It is a lot faster overall; vscode-vim is sluggy at best. But both of them lack a huge amount of features, and it doesn't feel like there's any real progress being made in either of them.
I'm super happy with vscode but the vim bindings are lacking :(
I use VSCode as well for literally everything, and I love it. As a Windows user, the remote development in WSL feature is super convenient for me. Not having to worry about all the quirks of Windows development is just so great.
I use an editor I wrote for myself. I'm doing scientific computing and I'm a bit peculiar when it comes to having interactive figures, integrated REPL and ways of executing code (specially after years of using matlab). Even though it's limited in some ways and buggy I haven't yet found something that suits me better. I also use vs code when I need some features like multiple cursors.
This reminds me of vid. The guy wrote his own programming language – and then wrote an editor in it.
I also use JetBrains's full suite of stuff both at work and home. Love all of them, don't mind giving them money at all. ReSharper is great but sloooow. I've very much enjoyed using Rider when messing around with Unity.
Emacs, together with using Linux on my main machine both force me to learn/understand more about computers.
In what way does using a certain text editor force you to learn more about computers?
Emacs is not a very good editor out of the box so you need to configure it. But since it is a very old piece of software, personalizing it requires you to search stuff online, program, understand its pitfalls, and knowing a little bit of every Linux tool/utility that communicates with it.
For example, if you want to set up a dictionary, you'll soon discover what are
aspelland/orhunspell. Additionally, if your native language is not english you will probably have a bunch different dictionaries, and will have to know how to pass different arguments to this utilities from inside Emacs. Stuff like this happens all the time and forces you to understand your tools.Another example is using Emacs to write LaTeX. For that I had to look up about different TeX engines (
pdfTeX,XeTeX, etc.) and a bunch of other stuff, but in Overleaf I would simply presscompileand not care about what was happening in the background.Yet another example: when setting up my Python editing environment I found out about
jedi,flake8,pylint,black,ropeetc. It is not like I 100% understand all of this tools, but I know which pieces make up my final tool, while if I was using VScode I would simple install the Python package and be done with it.It is also true that some times I don't have time to look into stuff and simply use VScode or Overleaf.
Potentially they're writing ELisp to modify it? Not that other IDEs can't be modified similarly.
Used to use VSCodium. Might go back to it, I have to say I do miss the intelligent autocompletion for Go code. It's weird, the only IDEs that have that are either big non-native Electron behemoths (Atom, VSCode) or just have a messy interface (LiteIDE) or one that doesn't integrate well at all with the desktop (Sublime).
So for the moment I've given up all that convenience for Gedit and/or GNOME Builder which are nice, native, well-behaved applications.
But if anyone knows how to get Golang autocomplete going on in either of these, please lemme know. GNOME Builder has "Ctags" support but I have no idea what that is and I have completely failed to find out how to make use of it despite much effort.
I use neovim with several plugins for searching, autocompletion and linting: https://gitlab.com/unduthegun/dotfiles/tree/master/nvim/.config/nvim
I use it for editing OCaml, C and Python, as well as viewing logs and manpages.
Right now I'm waiting on the tree-sitter integration which will hopefully make syntax highlighting better. But it's more than enough for editing projects with hundreds of thousands of lines and I'm happy with it.
I'm pretty fond of nano--I'm no coding god, but its simplicity and ease of use suit me just fine.
Vim or nano, because I’m boring.
I move between ed(1), ex-vi(1), and vim(1).
In vim I have some convenience plugins for vim-orgmode, and some things like clearing search highlights and making searches case insensitive. That's generally all I've ever needed tbh. I turn syntax highlighting off in vim (and the other two don't have it).
Kakoune.
I'm curious what you think of Kakoune? I have been a vimmer for years but I am pretty interested in Kakoune. The few times I have tried it I have been turned away by the lack of plugins and the sort of strange plugin architecture. I keep thinking about it though.
I love it. The instant feedback is awesome, specially with multiple selections. The command syntax is intuitive for me and since i didn't use vim that much in the past, it was quick for me to pick up.
My needs are simple so i just use it vanilla with little configuration. Don't use any plugins for now, so i don't miss anything.
Anyway, multiple selection is a delight to use. Specially when i use a bulkrename script i made (or the one within nnn) that puts all the filenames in a text file so i can rename using kakoune. Like when i need to rename a bunch of subtitle files (.srt) to match the names of the episodes of a season, it is so simple to select all the text until before the extension (.mp4), yank and just paste in the subtitles just before the .srt, hit :wq and done.
The multi select is what has drawn me to trying a few times. It seems more intuitive. I will have to give it another look.
I switched from vim to kakoune about a year ago, after like 4 years of using vim as my primary editor. I have found that there are plugins for everything I need, and to me the plug-in architecture makes just as much sense as vim's, if not more. The best part is that writing a plugin for kakoune is super easy and extensible, so you can do essentially anything you want with it. I personally use the plugins plug.kak, kak-lsp, auto-pairs.kak, and a few more. You can see my config here. I also have a few scripts in my autoload directory, but I don't have those backed up apparently, so they are not there.
The only big downside is that major breakig changes can still happen, and probably will happen, but that is usually a 5 minute fix, if it even effects you. The other downside that I can think of is the documentation for the more in-depth stuff is mostly found in an issue on GitHub, not in the readme or wiki.
One cool thing, and the original reason I checked it out, is that the highlighters are region based, so when editing markdown or latex code blocks you can get syntax highlighting for the language you specify.
I recommend reading the migrating from vim guide if you're coming from vim, and giving kakoune a try!
Thanks for the links. I will have to give it a try again. Maybe I will take a swing at making a simple plugin.
emacs and neovim... i use emacs b/c i started programming in scheme and orgs-mode is nice, but for most other things i use neovim
Right now I mostly use vscode, but I plan on using Oni2 as soon as it's ready.
I made my own theme for vscode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vyne.apostheme
Oni2 looks cool, thanks for pointing it out! https://github.com/onivim/oni2
np! There was a talk that the creator gave last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD9hpiBZQvA
Visual Studio Code! Swapped from Atom last year.
I swear by IntelliJ, or VS Code for smaller projects. I'm continually amazed by the things that the VS Code team has figured out how to do with Electron.
I’ve been using RubyMine for the last few years, both for Ruby on Rails projects and React Native projects. It has been working great for me.
I use emacs with evil mode, I love how hackable it is but I wish the extensions were as hassle free as the ones in VSCode.
Neovim has been my editor of choice for quite a while now.
I bounce between VS Code and Sublime.
I want to become more of a full-time Sublime user, but the Extensions for VS Code are more discoverable and often times more mature.
Is there anything for Sublime similar to VSCode’s default git diff viewer? That thing is super valuable.
Is this for diffs or for merge conflicts? Meld is much better than VSCode for merge conflicts.
Vs Code => VS Codium => Atom.
I started in VS Code. It was fine. I had problems with plugins and getting things to work right but honestly my use cases are so minimal it was mostly from a lack of caring enough to fix it. Moved to codium. Had the same experience. Eventually switched to atom bc I have a coworker who cares a lot about his IDE and had a nice setup and did most the legwork for me so now I have a nice IDE and didn’t have to go through the headaches of setting it up and tweaking it. Both VS’s work really well I have nothing against them I’m just lazy
I mostly code lil toy projects and micro has been serving me well for that.
Visual Studio Code w/ Vim Keybindings + Vim
VSCode for when I'm working on a single project for a while. The SSH plugin is really nice.
Vim for logs and quicker edits. In the end, Vim is fast and vim is available, and for some things a text editor like VSCode is just not the right tool.
either IntelliJ or Sublime when I'm working on Mac and notepad++ on windows.
Tried VS Code couple times, just couldn't get into it. It's too bloated and slow. I could see myself taking the time to get used to it if I did more front end work.
On my Windows desktop I use VSCode. It's a good IDE, but I do notice some speed issues. Especially with PlatformIO it tends to hang sometimes for a couple seconds, sometimes it even needs to reload the window.
On my Macbook I currently use TextMate, and have used Sublime Text in the past. Both are pretty fast and I like the overall feel of TexteMate better, but Sublime has better plugins
For just hammering out a Shell script, or editing a few lines of a single module or config, Kate. Its in the KDE ecosystem, so it has some integrations with stuff like Dolphin, and it can be used as a backend in other KDE programs (none come to mind, but there was at least one specialized editor that I realized was using all my Kate settings). Frankly not much more advanced than NP++, but it is fast and it has an absurdly wide array of highlighting syntaxes (and 99% of the time it guesses correctly which to use).
For any project with more than a file or two, PyCharm. Even non-Python things. Relative to Kate, it is fat and it is slow, taking up a gigabyte of RAM on average, but wow...the power. Ctrl-click to jump to declaration of any name, double-ctrl+up/down or alt-click to add more cursors, configurable inspections for everything, a keybind to instantly run Black, and even VCS integrations that correctly call to my YubiKey to sign/push commits.
It could be that I am just used to doing refactors the hard way, but JB really locked me in with this one.
Emacs.
Idle for python and otherwise nano because im a noob
I use
ne, the nice editor. It's like nano in its "just type and it works" but like a GUI with visual menus at the top (when you press F1). Nice and fast, works well through ssh, configurable keybinding, easy macros, fairly standard keyboard shortcuts, the list goes on.I use TextMate 2.0. It’s the best native macOS text editor I’ve ever used. I don’t use IDEs as I don’t like being separated from my code. I think there’s such a thing as too much tooling.
For stuff like editing config files and writing a few lines of bash I use nano simply because I'm usually already in the terminal and why not.
For actual programming I use Sublime. It's a good combination of simplicity and functionality, and it's not overly focused towards any individual language.
VScode, then VScodium. I’ve tried to setup vim/neovim for web dev, but I couldn’t even install plugins without running into weird errors, so I gave up.
I gave up on plugin managers with vim. I just install them manually.