Someone was still asking about text editors.
There have been numerous suggestions in this topic. Is there any any alternative we’ve missed?
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I want to write some more about code editors. I mentioned Emacs, and later Doom Emacs. The other day I listened to a DT video; Derek is a guy who used to be a Vim fan, but he moved about 3 years ago to Doom Emacs because it has vi, emacs, and space key bindings. It also has an astounding array of tools, which is why it’s been jokingly called an operating system.
Anyway, the big takeaway from his video was to consider starting an Emacs server daemon, then when you invoke Emacs, instead call emacsclient, so I set up an Emacs server to start with my system, and then I changed my quickie alias to start up the emacsclient instead of a standard invocation, and on top of that, I kept it “Doom Emacs”.
VERY impressive! Now Emacs starts as fast as any other editor you can cite, it has vi, Emacs, and space key bindings, it starts up very fast and it can handle any editing needs, from simple stuff to major project work. I used it daily in my last professional job, but I’ve added this “Doom Emacs” and emacsclient setup to my stuff these days and I agree with DT; it’s THE way to go! Check out some Distro Tube videos on Doom Emacs and see what I mean!
I’ve tried vs code, atom, sublime etc, but I always end up using vim. I did use emacs/gcc/gdb for coding back in the day, but these days I’m mostly writing shell and perl, and occasional c, and vim does what I need.
I mentioned “DT” the other day, so to J_J_Sloan and to others who may be vim users, (and assuming I can share the link), DT has a video especially useful to those who have never tried or used Doom Emacs.
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