I’ve used VS Code for a long time, but have recently grown weary of Microsoft’s approach to OSS. I’ve checked out VS Codium which seems like it might be a great option.

What text editor are you using?

  • vi21@lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 years ago

    I’m using GNU Emacs, which is, from my experience, great for open source software and decentralized development. Last year, I found an issue in a package/extension, I could make an experiment by modifying and running its code on the fly. I didn’t even need to reload the whole package/extension. So I figured the solution out and submitted a pull request quickly.

  • SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 years ago

    I only really use Vim. Mainly because vi is installed on basically every server and distro, so it is what I got used to.

  • loki@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    I use Neovim, LiteXL, and VS Codium depending on the project size and needs. no one tool suits all.

  • iortega@lemmy.eus
    3·
    3 years ago

    TL;DR: Neovim.

    Because I feel exceptionally happy today, I’m going to talk about my journey among text editors:

    Unnecessary text

    I will start from Vim.

    I started using Vim 5 years ago.
    i = 0
    while (still using vim) and i < 6:
    test Emacs vanilla
    give up with Emacs vanilla
    i++
    wait 1-4 months
    test Emacs Xah-Fly-Keys;
    Success
    wait 2 months
    Back to Vim.
    Test again vanilla Emacs 2 more times while using vim.
    Test again xah-fly-keys Emacs.
    After Several months…
    Upgrade to Neovim!
    2 days later: Back to Vim.
    X more time.
    We are on Q1 2020. Let’s use Doom Emacs!
    While using Doom Emacs I copy vim configs to Neovim because I got bored of Doom for a week.
    Doom possesses me for 2 years (while still using Neovim for terminal things sometimes).
    2021 Summer I move my Vimrc configs on neovim to Lua. Still Doom.
    Doom Emacs decides to no longer open and freezes on startup. Nice.
    Now I’m on Neovim. Waiting for nativecomp Emacs. I still regularly open Doom Emacs to check whether it got fixed magically by itself (no luck as of today).

    I’m happy with with neovim currently. I feel like neovim is like more robust and Doom Emacs can like do many many super cool and maybe little things, but sometimes decides to bug itself. Hard choice.

      • iortega@lemmy.eus
        1·
        2 years ago

        Your comment didn’t arrive to me until today. I already fixed the problem. I seemed to have some kind of error on my config, but for some reason I didn’t matter until the day Emacs broke. dunno.

  • a_Ha@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    “Cream is gVim, but with many features that should make editing easier for Vim beginners”
    i will try this out - - rationale :
    .1) only 1/3 of “Kate” 's footprint (16MB download, 74MB on HDD ) on xubuntu 20 lts
    .2) code folding (collapse and expand) and so many features even before plugins.

    just yell at me if this is a huge mistake !

    • GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 years ago

      Kate and anything KDE is HUGEEEEEE. I hate KDE and won’t look twice at any program now that starts with the dreaded K.

      • a_Ha@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        My first computer had 3584 bytes of RAM, the O.S. was 16kB, so my feeling of “huge bloat” start at very small numbers 😆 !

  • mtumishi@baraza.africa
    2·
    3 years ago

    Kate + RStudio.

    I spend a lot of time working in R so RStudio is a practical choice. It could be better in many ways though, which is why I use Kate for general editing tasks.