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Discussion on: What is your favorite editor and why?

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Erik Engheim

I don't get why people leave TextMate. Still my favorite editor. Yes I dabble in Sublime, Atom, VSCode, Vim and Kakoune, but I always go back to TextMate. Yes there are some annoyances with TextMate, but I cannot find anybody else which has such a nice Bundle plugin system. It is not just that Bundles are easy to make and edit, but I love how their functionality is so well sectioned off and easy to discover. Like you have a menu entry for each language. I cannot see that for other editors.

Sublime just has way too little UI. Everything seems to be text configuration files. TextMate makes it a lot easier to discover functionality. Especially related to configuring bundles.

If I have to use a text mode editor then I prefer Kakoune for many of the same reasons. I tend to prefer simplicity and ease of use. Editor which are based on some simple powerful principles. Kakoune takes make of the good ideas of Vim and simplifies them and make them more powerful.

Thus you get a far more manageable editor for a developer not willing to invest tons of time in being a Vim wizard.