TextEditors.org – A website about every known software Text Editor

When I think of most of the innovations that came later to text editors, I mainly think of features that make it easier to leverage massive amounts of code written by other people in a collaborative environment. E.g., linters, LSP, autocomplete, version control integration.

Also, perhaps unintuitively, I'd also put window management in that category which is for me the most important text editor feature. I.e., reading and understanding code written by other programmers spread across many files is the most difficult part of my job, therefore window management is the most important feature.

I might even put debugger integration in this category, something I always reach for the debugger for is answering "what is calling this function and with which arguments?"

Just about the only feature I can think of that's not in `ed` and that's not most helpful for collaboration and using libraries is syntax highlighting.

You type a search query then wait for the river of spam to float by.

I started working on a site for that in December after getting fed up with the number of times I've looked for a program to do X, not finding it, starting to build it myself, only to stumble across a random HN comment two months later that links to a program that solves the problem better than I ever could.

I'd really like a resource that lets me find this stuff better, so I'm making it.

Of course, if the usual pattern repeats again — sometime in March I'll come across such a site that has already done this and been running for 5 years and we never knew