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Five editors every developer should know

wolfiton on February 29, 2020

Nano Nano is a built-in editor in many Linux distributions that can be used by typing on the keyboard, it doesn't rely on the mouse for ...
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Michiel Hendriks •

Eclipse is not an editor, it's an IDE which almost consumes as much memory as your average Electron application.

Also, nano is sadly not a default in most Linux distros. For some odd reason centos does not have nano, nor nano-tiny, by default. Centos does come with the obscure (reduced) vim.

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Ghost • • Edited

So Atom should consume as much as Eclipse?, that's a no-go for me. Too bad, looked nice.

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wolfiton • • Edited

Atom uses similar memory like VSCode, so you should try it

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Ghost • • Edited

how much would be that aprox? I'm used to work with a bunch of open files next to each other, and I like my RAM available, also I'm used to Vim so over 100MB for text editing is barbaric to me, RAM is expensive around here.

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wolfiton •

It's an electron app like VSCode so I think that it consumes more then 100 mb. See this article for some insights blog.atom.io/2019/07/23/atom-1-39....

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Ghost •

thanks for the info, I'll check it out, even if I don't end up using it, is good to have alternatives to recommend others when asked, I love Vim, but is not everyone cup of tea :)

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Ben Sinclair •

Ah, nano. The only editor where ctrl-O saves a file instead of opening one.

Also, Vim is usually installed by default, even if it's a small build masquerading as vi.

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Manav •

If it were twitter, emacs people would have eaten you alive!😁

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wolfiton •

You are completely right, the war of the editors emacs vs vim is never ending.