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Discussion on: Which editor/IDE do you use and why?

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Michael Schaarschmidt

I use vi, vim or neovim since more then 20 years.

Since about one year I use Emacs with Spacemacs. For me it is the most comfortable way to use vim.

The main reason is that it's fast, I love modal editing and to move around with h-j-k-l is part of my DNA. In every other editor the first thing I search for is a vim plugin - and by the end of the day I switch back ...

Plugins I don't want to live without are

  • swiper for search in files
  • Ag for search in projects
  • relative line numbering

Over the years I had a bunch of plugins - but I moved more and more to the default features of vim, so I can work with every vim out of the box.

I am very close to command line. I use (n)vim in iterm2 (not GVim) and/or emac(sclient) in iterm2 - together with tmux.