[ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor

Derek Carter (aka goozbach) goozbach at friocorte.com
Tue Oct 22 12:16:25 EDT 2013


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On 2013-10-21 1523, Ed Cashin wrote:
> I'm editor-promiscuous: emacs, vi (vim, usually), acme (on plan 9),
> and ed.
> 
> Editors are kind of like programming languages---If you find one
> that is good enough to have attracted enough smart people as users,
> then you can probably make yourself a better person by learning
> through humble direct experience why they think it's so great.

I am also pretty agnostic when it comes to editors.

But I usually stick to vim when on a remote *nix system, and Acme when
I'm editing locally.

There's something to be said for Acme's clean interface without all
the bells and whistles.

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Derek

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