[Broken] Poll: What's Your Favorite Editor?

antiquarian

Continuing the discussion from Vi vs Emacs: Discuss:

@boomzilla said:

FLAMEWAR_NOT_FOUND

The worst thing about this flame war is that it wasn't a poll.

That's easy enough to fix:

What's your favorite editor?

notepad
notepad++
vim
emacs
nano
EDITOR_NOT_FOUND
Microsoft Word
Visual Studio
Sublime
BELGIUMING HELL, WHY CAN'T I PICK MORE THAN ONE!???!!!

boomzilla

No Kate.

accalia

zero points for guessing my vote.

loopback0

I voted, then this happened.

antiquarian

Apparently trying to add an option makes it not a poll any more. Where's the Vote of No Confidence thread?

loopback0

ed ?

accalia

BZZZZZT! wrong! ;-)

antiquarian

@loopback0 said:

I voted, then this happened.

It looks like it's fixed now. I'm not changing the title back because $DEITY knows what will happen.

loopback0

So with the correct title, the poll broke, then with an incorrect title it works?

Take it away, @discoursebot

discoursebot

@loopback0 - Last Day Without A Discourse Bug: null

riking

IntelliJ / other JetBrains when writing code, vim when editing in a terminal.

Kian

I like NetBeans, though I don't think it's particularly good. At least it's cross-platform.

tarunik

Editing code: VS and Eclipse (at the same time!) at work, Geany at home since VS doesn't run on Linux boxes yet, Eclipse is a dog, and IntelliJ doesn't have a C++ version. Sometimes I have to deal with other IDE bastardizations as well (hello, Matlab and ISE!)...

Random text file scribbling and look-sees: GEdit or Pluma on my Linux boxen, plain old Notepad.exe on Windows boxes except when files come in with alternate line endings which require Wordpad instead, very occasionally EDIT.COM since it has rudimentary auto-indent support these days

Look-sees at big files: GVim at work, less when I'm in a terminal unless I need syntax highlighting in which case it's vim/view (vim filename on a R/O file isn't very useful)

Editing in a terminal: Vim (full or tiny), Nano, or Pico if all else fails -- never nvi! It's also possible to set VISUAL and have something like GEdit come up when you are working from within an xterm...

PleegWat

I use vim for practically anything. Only for very big files (1-2GB and up) vim can take incredibly long to load, and I will initially use grep to filter, or open in less.

tarunik

@PleegWat said:

I use vim for practically anything. Only for very big files (1-2GB and up) vim can take incredibly long to load, and I will initially use grep to filter, or open in less.

My problem with that would be getting $random_GUI_app to understand vi/vim keybindings -- I find it far easier to adapt my editor's keystrokes to the rest of the GUI world that it sits in vs. adapt the rest of the GUI world to the editor I'm using...

Ever had a moment where you started typing Vim commands into, say, Word?

PleegWat

Occasionally; I get your drift.

I need to teach gvim to use ctrl+shift+c / ctrl+shift+v for copy/paste, imitating my terminal emulator. ",+,g,y and ",+,p work, but aren't exactly in muscle memory.

cvi

@tarunik said:

Ever had a moment where you started typing Vim commands into, say, Word?

Yes.

:wq

Filed under: I actually prefer ZZ over :wq for some reason

Eldelshell

No jEdit? I like it a lot. VIM also.

BTW, why is VS there if the poll is not about IDEs?

boomzilla

@PleegWat said:

less

I spend a lot of time in less.

RTapeLoadingError

Thelma Schoonmaker

PJH

@boomzilla said:

No Kate.

This.

@loopback0 said:

I voted, then this happened.

We have a buggy implementation of polls at the moment. They can't be closed at the moment either.

(Tried repro'ing over at try.discourse yesterday and couldn't. I presume that they'd be on latest so whatever it is has been fixed upstream.)

Think I'll file up on Bugs anyway...

FrostCat

@tarunik said:

Editing code: VS and Eclipse (at the same time!) at work

How frequently does one editor tell you a file's been modified by an outside source, because you've got it open in both?

FrostCat

@Eldelshell said:

No jEdit?

Eew. It's cromulent, but I'd abandon it in a heartbeat for something better.

smallshellscript

I'll just leave this here

http://dready.org/projects/viWord/

tarunik

@FrostCat said:

How frequently does one editor tell you a file's been modified by an outside source, because you've got it open in both?

Different codebases -- so not at all, although VS does give me that message at times due to SVN updates.

boomzilla

@PJH said:

I presume that they'd be on latest so whatever it is has been fixed upstream.

For God's sake, don't update! OK, I'm waaay behind and we probably already have.

boomzilla

@FrostCat said:

How frequently does one editor tell you a file's been modified by an outside source, because you've got it open in both?

Haha! One of them is Eclipse. It never notices!

dkf

@boomzilla said:

Haha! One of them is Eclipse. It never notices!

Oh, it does notice. It also gets really upset by it when it finds out and demands that you manually refresh. (Oh well, at least that's part of the explanation of why Eclipse is such a bloated pig…)

HardwareGeek

@cvi said:

><img src="http://what.thedailywtf.com/user_avatar/what.thedailywtf.com/tarunik/20/8113.png" tarunik:
Ever had a moment where you started typing Vim commands into, say, Word?

Yes.

:wq

Filed under: I actually prefer ZZ over :wq for some reason

For me, it's usually hitting Esc whenever I'm done typing in whatever I happen to be in at the moment, including terminal windows.

accalia

@tarunik said:

Ever had a moment where you started typing Vim commands into, say, Word?

Yes. Most commonly :w but I have done entire macros before realizing that I am not in vim.

ben_lubar

I've typed ls into IRC on multiple occasions.

Zecc

@PleegWat said:

I need to teach gvim to use ctrl+shift+c / ctrl+shift+v for copy/paste, imitating my terminal emulator.

First world problem: some times I need to press Shift when copying or pasting, other times I don't. It even happens that I have to switch during a single copy-paste operation.

Particularly terrible is when you incorrectly press Shift, fail to copy what you want, and end up pasting multiple lines of something else on a terminal.

Zecc

@cvi said:

Filed under: I actually prefer ZZ over :wq for some reason

That reason being it's a lot easier to type and somewhat similar to good old <nobr>Ctrl+S</nobr>?

tarunik

@ben_lubar said:

I've typed ls into IRC on multiple occasions.

some_irc_user> ls
me> ENOTTY

cvi

@HardwareGeek said:

For me, it's usually hitting <kbd>Esc</kbd> whenever I'm done typing in whatever I happen to be in at the moment, including terminal windows.

Yeah, that happens too. But for the most part, other program seem to be fairly resistant to random Esc. Pretty sure that e.g., Powerpoint is rather unimpressed by Esc when edititing, and mostly ignores it.

fatbull

@dkf said:

Oh, it does notice. It also gets really upset by it when it finds out and demands that you manually refresh.

I usually enable "Refresh on access" and "Save automatically before build" in the workspace preferences.