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

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Tamara Temple

Half the time I'm using a JetBrains IDE (language specific) and the rest of the time I'm using good ol' Emacs. The JetBrains IDEs do a bang-up job helping spelunk existing code bases and provide great debugging abilities that help in understanding what's going on.

Emacs is the editor I imprinted on way back in the 80's when I first came to Unix. It was everything: editor, IDE, note-taker, window manager, shell wrangler, VCS, and still is. It's where everything begins and everything ends for me.