I used to know a developer who wrote all his code in Notepad. This was around 2005 or 6. We had just starting to replace our legacy ASP code with ASP.Net, which he was determined to do in Notepad. I was gone before I could see how that worked out.
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HAHAHAHA I know the secret passcode to escape!
Incidentally, it's ctrl+]. But I remap it to 'kj', and somehow have never typed 'blackjack' in all my years of using Vim!
So... we meet at last, Doctor Evil!
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& then there's emacs
(& this-post (there-is emacs))
Emacs with evil mode
Yeah, this is the best solution at the end of the day for most would be text wizards, emacs is beautiful, vim keybindings are beautiful.
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vscodium slightly better than vscode tho.
honestly all ide's are rubbish - especially electron ones. for a gui editor, i've just gone back to sublime text and have never been happier.
Notepad++ is good but a bit bloated. Would not call it rubbish. Node is solid.
What is your opinion on Lapce ?
Is there a stable way to use closed extensions (like the MS Python one) with vscodium by now? I'd love to get away from MS' grasp, but it's much harder if I'll be missing out on language integrations.
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The big one (imo) is extensions. Outside of the vscode/atom/vim/emacs ecosystems sublime has probably the largest library of extensions, and theyβre readily installable. So if you want an extensible text editor thatβs not based around electron or the terminal itβs the obvious answer.
Atom? People still use atom?
Tbf codium is a very well optimized electron app. Don't believe me? Try discord
very well optimized electron app
It's like a very light Elephant
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Wouldn't the one that ops you into telemetry be the trap?
Though I use neovim as a text editor, Zed is my IDE of choice. I think itβs a good alternative for most people that donβt like Electron-based applications.
Zed is good but still in its infancy, but it has new content and sees many improvements quickly, needs more extension developers and I had to make my own extension for a language that was not well handled by zed
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Good luck exiting that!
ctrl-x. ;)
After years of using Linux, the last time I used Vim, I remembered for the first time how to go into command mode, exit, and save the file I was editing without looking anything up.
I'm the opposite, I sometimes find :w or :wq written in text files I have edited with non-vi editors.
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Tbf, how many plants are carnivorous monsters that dissolve your flesh
And how many animals can melt Rocks into Magic snap Rocks camouflage them and plan months in advanced
And how many developers can
export EDITOR=nano export VISUAL=nano