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What text editor do you use most often?

Princess AlicePrincess Alice
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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?
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  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    Notepad's always been good enough for me
  • VianiViani

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    Notepad, Evernote.com
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    emacs

    followed by vi for commit messages
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    edited 2017-07-02 04:05:26
    vim 4ever
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Windows: metapad
    Linux: gedit
  • BeeBee
    edited 2017-07-02 08:21:02
    Visual Studio, because I work on compiled team projects and need to regularly build them and hook into source control for blame view.
  • DYREDYRE
    Sublime Text.
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Shouldn't it be "code editor" rather than...

    I'm just kind of confused.
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    code generally consists of text
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    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.
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    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.
  • DYREDYRE
    edited 2017-07-02 15:42:23
    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.
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    a "text editor" has no notion of typesetting, is a big one
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    emacs with auctex
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    I uh

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

    so, notepad?
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Calica said:

    emacs with auctex

    Klinotaxis said:

    emacs


    followed by vi for commit messages

  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    TextEdit
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    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.
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    ..... >____>

    LOOKS AWAY
  • Sredni VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Crystal said:

    ..... >____>


    LOOKS AWAY


    BURN THE HERETIC!
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    RIP
  • CrystalCrystal
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Also I use Notepad++ but I also don't use it at all in service of Word, so.
  • Section42LSection42L
    We can do anything if we do it together.
    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 VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    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 AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    @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...
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    textedit looks like wordpad to me. same weird area.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    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 AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    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 VashtarSredni Vashtar
    “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    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.
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    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 AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    tbh I always assumed that was just a concession to desperate people needing to use WordPad to open text files too big for Notepad
  • TatterhoodTatterhood
    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 BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    OneNote because fuck your stuff.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2017-07-02 22:02:33
    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
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    i just realized that those last two notes are like 7 years old lol
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    homura purple
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Imipolex G said:

    homura purple

    i just needed a name and called it that lol
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    you know what's a good color? b00b1e
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Imipolex G said:

    you know what's a good color? b00b1e

    bloody hell
  • AlirozAliroz
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Notepad for just text, word for when I need good paragraphs and pages.
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    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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