#Best free text editor 2018 code
If you’re curious about it I would recommend trying to implement my license header code in msgpack with Lua or Python (I tried in python) and see what you think.Īs a final note I’ll add that while I throw this post around Emacs has a multitude of nice little features that aren’t debate winning on their own but add up to an editor experience that I like better than that of Neovim. I think Neovim is great and as long as you aren’t using Spacemacs (which I no longer use but still think is great) it’s not significantly faster. Additionally you have to write a vimscript shim as well. I mean your talking across an API instead of scripting editor behavior. Unfortunately I found msgpack to be way more complicated to work with. So I actually have a neovim setup in my dotfiles and I’ve used it quite a bit. As I said above, a terminal is genuinely a killer feature. That said, for me to switch is already brutal because it means my development environment has to be local, or I have to setup some kind of file share to my remote linux dev box. I should really try VSCode (I've tried many others but not VSCode) so I know what I'm talking about. There are some people who switch out of vim/emacs into that world and the GUI editors are getting better and better as time goes on. The internet abounds with stories of developers who "finally found vim" after years of working with gui IDEs.Įdit: I haven't yet tried VSCode and hear good things so I don't want to totally discount the value of GUI-based editor/IDEs. Just be sure you one day really try vim or emacs deeply, because you'll never know what you're missing if you don't. I could go on and on, but I'll stop here. The idea of using cursor keys or mouse to navigate my code or perform editor functions is an anathema compared to the expediency of vim's keyboard motion commands. My screen real estate is fully utilized, powerfully configurable, and I can detach from that session and re-attach to it from another computer at ease. For instance, all my development happens inside a single terminal window with a tmux session hosting splits for vim and various terminals which run my build process, dev servers, etc, all together in a crisply managed and integrated console environment. Also, having a terminal-based editor is extremely powerful by itself, and over time it will open you up to workflows that just aren't possible with guis. The other editors and IDEs offer more up-front ease of use and fewer obvious pain points, but are shallower in the sense that they don't become life-long joys of your programming career at the depth that Vim or Emacs can become. Things you think should be easy feel hard with them, until you really grasp the mechanics at a lower level, after which it feels easy again but much more powerful at the same time. They have steep initial learning curves, encourage deep commitment, and then reward that commitment in an ongoing manner for the rest of your career as an engineer. Vim and Emacs are the "end-game" editors that once you commit to them, you will very likely never leave them. In my mind there is Vim and Emacs, and then there is everything else.
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