Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs.

Posted by viktorino on Saturday January 01, 2011 @09:32PM
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YC startups developers : what is the text editor you use for modern Web development in general (php, ruby, python, javascritp, frameworks) and why?

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Re:Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs. by arnorhs on Saturday January 01, 2011 @09:51PM (#2059235)

I'm not a ninja dev, so I frequent between a few editors. Mostly using gedit now w/ a few plugins but - scite is also good but you need to customize it a lot before it makes sense.

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Re:Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs. by st3fan on Sunday January 02, 2011 @06:46PM (#2061507)

Emacs, Vim, IntelliJ IDEA, Xcode, BBEdit

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Re:Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs. by elliottcarlson on Saturday January 01, 2011 @09:59PM (#2059257)

Linux: vi

Windows: Editplus

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Re:Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs. by johnm on Saturday January 01, 2011 @09:44PM (#2059223)

Emacs. Programmability.

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Re:Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs. by mhd on Saturday January 01, 2011 @10:26PM (#2059299)

I sincerely hope that there's little overlap between the members of the Most Holy Church of Emacs and those heretics who like to affect terms like "ninja" and "rock star".

TextMate seems to be rather popular in those camps (note: not meant as derogatory remark against TM users. Use it myself, and my last dalliance with ninja-ism involved tightey-whiteys, an mask improvised out of a towel and rubber shuriken)

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Re:Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs. by johnm on Sunday January 02, 2011 @01:09AM (#2059542)

Ha! Yeah, Emacs isn't sexy enough for the "cool" kids. Hahaha.

Personally, I don't even notice all of those stupid adjectives any more. They are totally content-free.

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