God just fucking kill me I hate tech libertarians more than satan's asshole

        • mayor_pete_buttigieg [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah Vim has a very steep learning curve, which it makes no apologies about. If you invest in learning it, you get a full fledged IDE that can run on any number of systems, but if you already have an editor you like it might not be worth the effort. Personally I use vscode with the vim key bindings because navigating the vim plugin ecosystem was too much for me.

          • neo [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Personally I use vscode with the vim key bindings

            I can’t stand vsvim specifically because it’s an inaccurate vim emulator. So I just use emacs and evil. It does what I need.

        • neo [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Don’t admit that online unless you want programmers to harass you all day long.

    • Good_Username [they/them,e/em/eir]
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      4 years ago

      Ok, so this is really elitist of me, but vim is where it's at. Or emacs. I actually use an unholy combo of both (spacemacs) and I love it. It makes LaTeX so easy! And org-mode is life.

    • bilb [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Kate is a pretty great editor with a similar set of features. I use it on Linux, but it has a Windows version. Dunno how weird it is in windows.

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      Atom if you're using Notepad++ for code. Open source, has great support/plugins. If you're using a text-editor solely for writing documents, though, I suppose something else would probably be better - but Atom does support markdown and using it for plain text isn't horrible.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        idk, i tend to like a quick lightweight notepad-esque thing for quick edits when i think of them. basic regex and markdown obviously

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Then atom is the editor for you. Personally I couldn't get past the fact that it looks more like some HTML webpage I'm coding instead of a block of text/paper/short story unless you use a split pane to have the markdown preview constantly showing.

    • Abraxas [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Brackets is alright for the most part, but it's by Adobe...

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          Sublime Text is pretty good, but it's the farthest thing from free, neither like freedom nor like free beer. Although I think it's like winrar in that the trial period is indefinite but you should pay if using it professionally. This is assuming you're looking for a direct N++ replacement, i.e. that it does syntax highlighting and tab completion for a number of different languages.

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      sublime text is winrar-free

      Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.