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Discussion on: What's your editor journey like as a developer?

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geraldew • Edited

Ah yes, "journey" is the right word.

On CP/M:

  • ed (was a CP/M port of the DEC line editor I think)
  • WordMaster (predecessor to WordStar)
  • Turbo Pascal (used the WordStar control keys, I'm not counting WordStar as a code editor but I used it a lot for word processing)

On MS-DOS:

  • edlin (Microsoft's version of ed I think)
  • Borland Pascal (yep, still used the WordStar control keys)

On Windows:

  • PFE (Programmer's File Editor)
  • Jedit
  • Notepad++

On Linux:

  • JOE (used the WordStar control keys)
  • Gedit (for GUI editing just because it was already there)
  • Geany (my current Python coding)
  • Notepadqq (my goto tackle anything editor)

Probably worth noting that while I remember looking at Emacs and Vim in the 1980s I just never took to using them anywhere. I know just enough Vim to let me edit a line or two when I've got a remote terminal mode into something that only has that.

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Kristian Quirapas

The tweet lacked details, but its my editor progression from when I started coding until today that's the reason why I used 'journey' as the term. I started from Notepad with Vim as my editor for almost everything today which made me interested in how devs progressed with their editors. I hope that clears it.

On the other hand, your editors give me the idea that you're some sort of veteran. Thank you for sharing