Re:Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
by ebiester on Thursday June 14, 2012 @04:33PM
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When I'm not in IntelliJ, I'm using Vim. I prefer vim as an editor, but I much prefer IntelliJ as a code organizer.
I know vim and *ix pretty well, but I frankly like that I don't have to spend time looking up or memorizing how to do an occasional task when a well-organized hierarchical menu will do it for me.
I don't get paid to fiddle with my coding environment, and I don't mind outsourcing that process to someone who is thinking hard about how to make my life easier. I am not creating additional value for my startup by playing with a few extra plugins to do what an IDE does more efficiently.
Re:Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
by jdrmar on Thursday June 14, 2012 @04:25PM
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Sublime 2 baby, never felt so happy while writing code :D
Maybe it's just the default color scheme, or the code overview, or (most of the time) nicely working code completion.. it just 'feels' right!
Re:Ask HN: What code editor do you use?
by Toph on Thursday June 14, 2012 @04:42PM
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Previously Vim (MacVim actually) but been giving Emacs a world to expand my understanding if nothing else. Same with Sublime Text 2 albeit a bit less since others who were on the Vim/Emacs side have starting praising it so giving that a bit of a world too.
I know vim and *ix pretty well, but I frankly like that I don't have to spend time looking up or memorizing how to do an occasional task when a well-organized hierarchical menu will do it for me.
I don't get paid to fiddle with my coding environment, and I don't mind outsourcing that process to someone who is thinking hard about how to make my life easier. I am not creating additional value for my startup by playing with a few extra plugins to do what an IDE does more efficiently.
My secret shame is that when in CLI on Linux, I use nano.
I am learning Vim because I am tired of paying for text editors.