Yes I'm sure it can.
What I'm curious about, is it so good an editor that people commonly use it for general text editing for non-code text? I know Vim and Emacs gets used like that a lot, maybe Notepad too.
Re:One with Vim
by georgieporgie on Sunday January 30, 2011 @01:55AM
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As I said to another commenter, yes, as long as I have a VS instance running, it's my text editor of choice.
The startup time is too long for off-hand editing (I suppose this is hardware dependent). In that case, I'll open Notepad for quick to-do lists, or vi for non-line-ending-mangling tasks. It's pretty unusual for me not to have VS running, though.
Re:One with Vim
by semanticist on Thursday January 27, 2011 @09:10PM
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But can you use it as an editor when the target platform is humans, that is, when you're not writing code at all?
Re:One with Vim
by georgieporgie on Sunday January 30, 2011 @01:51AM
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Sure, why not?
I wouldn't start up a VS instance just to edit text, but if I have one running, it's my editor of choice.
In the past, I've used VS for editing PHP, which I then deployed to the server using a keyboard shortcut.
I understand what you're saying, but I want to point out that VS can be used as an editor even when the target platform isn't MS.