Editor: Crimson Editor (2004 edition, pre-Emerald Editor) and Notepad
Terminal: Command Prompt (or PuTTY when doing SSH)
I use and strongly prefer "ancient" text editors because they are: Small, fast, and have no unnecessary features. Crimson is my goto and has almost everything I need in a modern text editor without all the bloat. Let's just say that it works for me. Notepad is not really for coding but is extremely useful as a scratch pad on my second monitor to work out coherent thoughts and ideas.
I occasionally fire up Notepad++ for rare scenarios that Crimson doesn't handle well. I'll occasionally fire up vim on Linux or if I need to open multi-GB files. Can't stand most text editors for more than a few minutes of use. If an editor doesn't startup instantly or work exactly like Crimson Editor (or worse - attempts to format my code because it thinks it knows better), then I'm not interested.
I start Visual Studio on occasion when I need to dig into complex C++ debugging problems. Otherwise, I avoid IDEs like the plague. A text editor should just fill the screen and get out of the way of the developer. Everything else is a distraction and will get in the way at some point.
Editor: Crimson Editor (2004 edition, pre-Emerald Editor) and Notepad
Terminal: Command Prompt (or PuTTY when doing SSH)
I use and strongly prefer "ancient" text editors because they are: Small, fast, and have no unnecessary features. Crimson is my goto and has almost everything I need in a modern text editor without all the bloat. Let's just say that it works for me. Notepad is not really for coding but is extremely useful as a scratch pad on my second monitor to work out coherent thoughts and ideas.
I occasionally fire up Notepad++ for rare scenarios that Crimson doesn't handle well. I'll occasionally fire up vim on Linux or if I need to open multi-GB files. Can't stand most text editors for more than a few minutes of use. If an editor doesn't startup instantly or work exactly like Crimson Editor (or worse - attempts to format my code because it thinks it knows better), then I'm not interested.
I start Visual Studio on occasion when I need to dig into complex C++ debugging problems. Otherwise, I avoid IDEs like the plague. A text editor should just fill the screen and get out of the way of the developer. Everything else is a distraction and will get in the way at some point.
I don't easily get distracted while coding actually 😅, have you tried emacs though? it fits in your description of text editors 🤔