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Poll: What text editors do you prefer?

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Inspired by the recent polls on which programming languages people like and dislike, I decided to put together a poll with the most popular editors and IDEs to figure out what text editors people prefer.

I think I got most of the popular editors, but if your favorite one isn't here, ask in the comments and I will add it.

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717754 I don't think you'll get different results 9 days later.

Bah. Real men program with a personally-magnetised needle and a steady hand.

Excuse me. But _real_ programmers use butterflies.

It's back to Reddit for you two.

Oh, come on now. A little bit of fun is no good? ;)

By the way, 'back to reddit' doesn't quite make sense with me... I've been here three times as long.

These polls pop up every week or three. The distribution is usually pretty much the same. The comment threads are usually the same. The inevitable vi/emacs war breaks out.

Might as well have some fun with the monotony.

I am taken by surprise that I am the only one so far it seems, in this topic and the one from nine days ago, that uses Programmer's Notepad.

http://www.pnotepad.org/

I always figured it was fairly popular. Many compare it to Notepad++, which has many points here but I have never used.

Therefore I will check out Notepad++, though I urge Notepad++ users to check out Programmer's Notepad!

I was wondering if that was a re-incarnation of "Programmer's File Editor" (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/) which I used years ago. After that stopped updating, I switched to Context (http://www.contexteditor.org/), which also stopped updating and will probably stay that way until it's re-written. Context is still my favorite, but has problems in Windows 7, and Notepad++ is almost as good without the problems.

Sublime 2 + Vim package. You get best of both worlds

http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html

It depends on the language. JavaScript in Sublime. PHP in Netbeans. Java in Eclipse. ObjectiveC in XCode.

Somewhat language dependent. IntelliJ IDEA for Java stuff. Vim for everything else.

GVim and MacVim. I'd probably use Sublime Text 2 if it supported vim modelines.

I've always wondered - what is so important about modelines? I use both vim and ST2, and I've heard lots of people talking about modelines, but never really grokked what they were used for. Can you give me an example?

Wow, SublimeText has overtaken Textmate in Hacker News usage. I'm amazed by this.

I'm somebody that switched by the way, but I thought I was in the overwhelming minority.

If you haven't tried Sublime Text 2 yet, give it a go. Once you get the hang of installing packages and customizing it, you'll be hooked. It's a pretty incredible package.

Notepad++ is awesome. I'm just sick of getting corrupt settings. My only gripe is the plugins could have better shortcut/toolbar integration

Not that i use it but it really helped me in the beginning of my learning of html and php. Dreamweaver.

My two: Bluefish(on Ubuntu) and Textpad(on Windows) never seem to show up on these lists.

Geany (http://www.geany.org/)

Done.

I use Sublime Text, but I miss Emacs every day (you can't really extend ST2...)

No one uses Aptana studio? I moved from Vim to try it. Like it so far.

Interesting, no Textpad?

Textpad wasn’t bad 8 or so years ago, but it’s unfit for purpose these days due to its inability to handle Unicode. You’ve actually got to be quite careful with it, as it’ll mangle text you load and save.

What, no option for the original nodepad or what about DOS edit?

No Rubymine? Hands down the best Ruby/Rails IDE out there.

Sublime Text 2 for me. Very powerful and easy to use.

Yea, that's what I use. I'm very pleased with it.

really depends on what OS you prefer... For MacOS, Sublime Text is the best one per my understanding.

Where's Pico?

Vim mostly. Chocolat Sometimes.

Scribes (linux Textmate clone)

Added

Please add Wing IDE

No BBEdit option?

Added.

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