What text editor do you use most often?

Princess Alice · 2017-07-02 03:08:44

Notepad++ for me.

I know a lot of people have moved onto Sublime Text or VSCode, but I like N++'s old-school interface. Why fix what isn't broken?

Imipolex G · 2017-07-02 03:09:32

Notepad's always been good enough for me

Viani · 2017-07-02 03:48:11

Notepad, Evernote.com

Klinotaxis · 2017-07-02 03:52:51

emacs

followed by vi for commit messages

Tatterhood · 2017-07-02 04:04:43

vim 4ever

glennmagusharvey · 2017-07-02 04:42:02

Windows: metapad
Linux: gedit

Bee · 2017-07-02 08:20:41

Visual Studio, because I work on compiled team projects and need to regularly build them and hook into source control for blame view.

DYRE · 2017-07-02 12:48:08

Sublime Text.

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-07-02 15:00:34

Shouldn't it be "code editor" rather than...

I'm just kind of confused.

Tatterhood · 2017-07-02 15:07:57

code generally consists of text

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-07-02 15:18:57

I'm not stupid, Lucy. T_T

What I mean is, there's a pretty big gulf between Word or TextEdit and Sublime Text or Notepad.

Tatterhood · 2017-07-02 15:40:28

Sorry.

I'd describe Word as a "word processor", not a "text editor". The software described by non-Bee people in this thread is all perfectly suitable for any kind of plain text, not just code. It's generally programmers who care anyway, of course. But it's not like I wouldn't use vim if I just wanted to make a list or whatever.

DYRE · 2017-07-02 15:41:18

I think "text editor" refers to just things for editing text files i.e. no formatting, images, etc. So Word doesn't count as one.

In practice I guess people mostly use text editors for code (though also stuff like configuration files) but like, that's what they're called.

EDIT: Oh or exactly what Tatterhood said.

Klinotaxis · 2017-07-02 16:12:04

a "text editor" has no notion of typesetting, is a big one

Calica · 2017-07-02 16:33:24

emacs with auctex

Obā-san · 2017-07-02 16:40:28

I uh

make little text documents and put reminders as the title and leave them on my desktop

so, notepad?

Odradek · 2017-07-02 16:41:27

Calica said:
emacs with auctex

Klinotaxis said:
emacs

followed by vi for commit messages

Section42L · 2017-07-02 16:46:56

TextEdit

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-07-02 16:49:11

Klinotaxis said:
a "text editor" has no notion of typesetting, is a big one

Thus:

Section42L said:
TextEdit

Which I use fairly often, because who even uses Word on a Mac.

Crystal · 2017-07-02 16:50:35

..... >____>

LOOKS AWAY

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-07-02 16:51:43

Crystal said:
..... >____>

LOOKS AWAY

BURN THE HERETIC!

Crystal · 2017-07-02 16:56:49

RIP

Crystal · 2017-07-02 16:58:19

Also I use Notepad++ but I also don't use it at all in service of Word, so.

Section42L · 2017-07-02 17:00:34

Sredni Vashtar said:

Klinotaxis said:
a "text editor" has no notion of typesetting, is a big one
Thus:
Section42L said:
TextEdit
Which I use fairly often, because who even uses Word on a Mac.

I use Word on a Mac for school stuff. >_>

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-07-02 17:01:28

Section42L said:

Sredni Vashtar said:

Klinotaxis said:
a "text editor" has no notion of typesetting, is a big one
Thus:
Section42L said:
TextEdit
Which I use fairly often, because who even uses Word on a Mac.
I use Word on a Mac for school stuff. >_>

Sredni Vashtar said:

Crystal said:
..... >____>

LOOKS AWAY

BURN THE HERETIC!

Princess Alice · 2017-07-02 17:03:19

@Sredni I suppose this is kinda my fault for not explaining my jargon better. Like the others said, "text editor" usually refers to a program that edits plain text files (and thus is suitable for coding), while fancier programs that can handle typesetting and formatting tend to be called "word processors". So, Notepad is a text editor, but Word is a word processor.

TextEdit in particular is kind of a weird case because, IIRC, it basically has both a word processor function and a text editor function, so while it's not ideal for code, you could use it for code in a pinch. So for the purpose of this conversation I think it counts as a text editor if it's the primary program you use to edit plain text files...

Klinotaxis · 2017-07-02 17:03:45

textedit looks like wordpad to me. same weird area.

Princess Alice · 2017-07-02 17:05:08

Klinotaxis said:
textedit looks like wordpad to me. same weird area.

IIRC it's kind of like WordPad but it has a menu option that lets you basically strip it down to a plain text editor, which makes it a weird edge case as far as this distinction goes.

Princess Alice · 2017-07-02 17:06:23

Also on the rare occasions that I use a Mac, I do use word, but that's because my school is paying for it. I certainly wouldn't buy it myself when LibreOffice exists. :P

Sredni Vashtar · 2017-07-02 17:07:31

You can switch between plain text and rich text fairly easily so it does both. I've used the former fairly often, actually, for specialised purposes.

Tatterhood · 2017-07-02 17:12:45

Central Avenue said:

Klinotaxis said:
textedit looks like wordpad to me. same weird area.
IIRC it's kind of like WordPad but it has a menu option that lets you basically strip it down to a plain text editor, which makes it a weird edge case as far as this distinction goes.

IIRC if you just open a .txt file in wordpad it pretty much does this also.

Princess Alice · 2017-07-02 17:17:21

tbh I always assumed that was just a concession to desperate people needing to use WordPad to open text files too big for Notepad

Tatterhood · 2017-07-02 17:32:28

Central Avenue said:
tbh I always assumed that was just a concession to desperate people needing to use WordPad to open text files too big for Notepad

WordPad also recognizes Unix line endings unlike notepad.

Salix Babylonika · 2017-07-02 18:06:17

OneNote because fuck your stuff.

glennmagusharvey · 2017-07-02 22:01:02

DYRE said:
I think "text editor" refers to just things for editing text files i.e. no formatting, images, etc. So Word doesn't count as one.

In practice I guess people mostly use text editors for code (though also stuff like configuration files) but like, that's what they're called.

EDIT: Oh or exactly what Tatterhood said.

I also use my basic text editor (Metapad/Notepad) for short files like a literal notepad.

Basically when all I care is to have a small file that opens quickly and the formatting doesn't matter.
Heck, the fact that it's fixed-width means I can easily format it myself if I want. (Fixed-width fonts FTW.)

Like, I have a desktop file titled "notepad.txt" in which there's just all sorts of random notes for later like

turn off timer
remove warning and how to play screens
beat-displaying arrows
Stepmania 3.9 menu music/graphics
* how to customize?
remember last played song
add "cleared" sound effect (where's the "failed" sound effect?)

homura purple - #9b67c5
dark purple - 800040
warm blue-green - 808000
#18cf0a (light green)
#df0000 (red)

Oxfam Ethiopia report - climate change implications chapter, intro, etc.

1 paragraph/page: summarize this, talk about

glennmagusharvey · 2017-07-02 22:04:25

i just realized that those last two notes are like 7 years old lol

Imipolex G · 2017-07-02 22:59:00

homura purple

glennmagusharvey · 2017-07-24 06:15:53

Imipolex G said:
homura purple

i just needed a name and called it that lol

Imipolex G · 2017-07-24 06:17:26

you know what's a good color? b00b1e

glennmagusharvey · 2017-07-24 07:37:59

Imipolex G said:
you know what's a good color? b00b1e

bloody hell

Aliroz · 2017-07-25 02:23:04

Notepad for just text, word for when I need good paragraphs and pages.

Princess Alice · 2017-07-25 02:31:54

As soon as I saw "most recent by Aliroz" I thought "you know, I get Aliroz loves good old-fashioned plain Notepad." :)

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