(Graphical) IDE's are great for development, but they're slow to start and heavy to run. Sometimes you just want to take a quick look at an xml or dockerfile and you don't want to spin up the whole IDE for that.
I've recently rediscovered notepad++ for that (on windows), what's your prefered easy-acces-tekst-editor?
Helix. Instant startup. Minimal configuration required. Has all of the killer features I want from an IDE anyway.
EDIT: I assumed people would just research this anyway, but a more complete list of features I enjoy from Helix:
- very responsive
- modal editing
- declarative configuration file format (TOML, not Lua)
- language server protocol
- debug adapter protocol
- written in Rust so I am more likely to be able to submit a PR if I need to
Some cons (all known issues on github):
- no plugin API yet
- inline LSP diagnostics are overly intrusive and can overlap your code
- cold-starts the LSP when you start the editor, so you might need to wait for symbol queries in a large project
HelixandCode - OSSsometimes (Code - OSSis an open source vscode distribution)I'd call that an IDE, but also one that makes using a non-IDE editor superfluous.
Yeah, I'd call Emac and Vim both IDE's. They're definitely not "just" text editors.
Vim can have some IDE-like qualities, if you bolt enough plugins in to it, but by default it affords buttinx text in a file and manipulating it.
I woudn't classify it as an ide though.
Neovim can can certainly be an IDE, but its complexity comes from having a lot of features to rapidly edit text. d5d deletes 5 lines, vwwy selects two words and yanks them, gg returns to the beginning of the file, etc. It'll maybe do some code highlighting out of the box but its featureset is about never needing to touch a mouse or leave home row.
It's about like notepad++ on Windows in that it's very good for quick edits of a file or otherwise manipulating plaintext but it isn't good out of the box for actual writing meant to be read by other human beings.
Vim if I'm on Linux, notepad++ if I'm on windows. Though I will use VSCode in both OS if want to make a lot of changes and run the file.
Kate on Linux, Notepad++ on Windows.
Also, Kate on Windows (it's really good)
This is going to be a boring answer but I use neovim. I do use it as my ide as well but it’s so fast and lightweight that when I need to edit a random config file or something, I just start another instance of it.
Pulsar, granted it can be ide like and I do contribute to it but I loved atom over any other tool that I've been introduced too by anyone. Sometimes I do use nano tho bc of having some familiarity with the command line but not enough to be fully functional tbh.
