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riidom • Edited

I like to have a specialist, a generalist and an occasionalist.

Specialist depends on the language. If you write a lot Lua, it might be worth evaluating Zerobrane, for example. For Java and PHP such specialists exist too, and probably for other languages as well.

Generalist should deal equally well with all languages. I hail with the VS Code mob here.

Occasionalist should be mostly crazy fast to start up. I use these when I do quick edits in single files (so, nothing project-based, or let's call it folder-based). Start, edit, save, quit. And when I do the same a minute later, I dont feel stupid, because it's my occasionalist :) On Windows, Notepad++ is a solid choice, on Kubuntu, I use Kate, for example.