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martyb
on Monday February 08 2016, @05:12AM
from the break-out-the-asbestos-clothing dept.
from the break-out-the-asbestos-clothing dept.
Nothing warms the soul on a cold winter morning like a VI vs EMACS flamewar. But when was the last time you saw one? Kids these days, using their javascript-powered editors. And with VI and EMACS both eligible for Social Security, perhaps their fighting days are over. But fear not! A new generation of VI and EMACS is here to fight and fight and fight fight fight.
Neovim (github) is a VIM fork for the 21st century. Removing cruft (like support for the Amiga platform where VIM originated) and other updates.
Spacemacs (github) claims to be a "Mnemonic, Discoverable, Consistent, and Crowd-Funded" (vim and emacs) distribution. Confused? Me too.
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(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Monday February 08 2016, @11:17AM
Sublime is easy to pickup and programmable in Python, the defaults are reasonable, and if you need extra functionality I just search for plugins right from the editor (although there was an extra step to add that one installer plugin).
No going through tutorials, or "years to master" it. Several builtin features are really great for when you need them (like edit multiple places at once, file search is pretty fast, etc.)
There's a very similar open source alternative, Atom, but haven't tried it yet.
Some of the contributed plugins aren't working just right, but it was sthe same with emacs the several times I tried.
For commandline nano, rarely have the need for much more than that. It also looks nice once you've set up highlighting.
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(Score: 2) by fnj on Monday February 08 2016, @11:43AM
You're joking, right? You're the first commenter to boost something that COSTS FRIGGIN MONEY. The rest of us can't comprehend why anyone would spend money on a text editor when there are plenty of superb free ones. this takes me back to the bad old days before the FSF.
(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Monday February 08 2016, @02:32PM
The fullfeatured demo version lasts a lifetime with just an unobtrusive "buy me" popup every now and then. Anyway Atom looks very similar and is open source if you like.
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(Score: 1) by UncleRage on Monday February 08 2016, @08:41PM
For what it's worth... I'll second SublimeText.
I'm not opposed to paying for software; if it works well, looks good and the developer has a sensible roadmap. Why should I be? Yes, there's a plethora of solid, FOSS and/or simply free software out there... but if you find something that you like, what's wrong with paying for it?
I know a guy here at work that complains about PuTTY vocally and frequently (as in daily) -- and ridicules me for paying for ZOC. Yet, I'm not the one moaning and griping about a tool I choose to work with.
Back to the topic du jour: I'm part of an interesting trend presented here: If I'm remote and I need more than to cat a file, Nano it is. Which feels weird as I remember thinking, "Well... sure. I'll try an improved Vi!" some twenty something years ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2016, @10:46PM
It would appear mtrycz has also paid money toward this site we're posting on. Coincidence?