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What is the best text editor? (Using Science)

vim

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Aditya Prerepa

Prime I would actually like to see a side-by-side performance analysis of people who use vim vs intellij or something. Like an actual experiment. take a control group of devs who just started using intellij vs vim, measure the learning curve, and 2 months in final measure to see which one is better.

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Thomas Dillard • Edited

tooling.report, but for code editors.

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Gyudong-Han • Edited

vim is always right ...

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Mike H

Can confirm. I may not be a scientist, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn once.

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Richard Tong

facts

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Eljay-Adobe

I used emacs for years. Challenged by a co-worker, he switched from vim to emacs, and I switched from emacs to vim for several weeks.

At the end of the challenge, he immediately went back to vim, and I never went back to emacs.

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Seanmclem

I use a hammer and chizzle on a stone tablet. Everyone else is ridiculous.

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Steven Doss

vim....ual Studio Code.

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David Paul

Where is the nano option?

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Ben Sinclair

Get back to the evil beard universe.

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Genesis

Hey Michael,
I appreciate your article.

Thank You for writing.

New to typing ... you like bold?

Contributor to java here.

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// iostream grass-fed, free range
package loGmA;
 {
  public class FactoryInstanceMatriarch_MakesFourierSeriesFromAbstractionFactoryPattern
   {
   System stdInArg = System.in; //note the io grass fed thing here
   AbstractFourierSeriesFactoryInstanceManager fourierSeries = new 
   AbstractFourierSeriesFactoryInstanceManager(stdInArg);
    }
}
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Timothy Cole

yeah, this is true