Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs.

I'm not a ninja dev, so I frequent between a few editors. Mostly using gedit now w/ a few plugins but - scite is also good but you need to customize it a lot before it makes sense.

Emacs, Vim, IntelliJ IDEA, Xcode, BBEdit

Emacs. Programmability.

I sincerely hope that there's little overlap between the members of the Most Holy Church of Emacs and those heretics who like to affect terms like "ninja" and "rock star".

TextMate seems to be rather popular in those camps (note: not meant as derogatory remark against TM users. Use it myself, and my last dalliance with ninja-ism involved tightey-whiteys, an mask improvised out of a towel and rubber shuriken)

Ha! Yeah, Emacs isn't sexy enough for the "cool" kids. Hahaha.

Personally, I don't even notice all of those stupid adjectives any more. They are totally content-free.

Linux: vi

Windows: Editplus