A discussion on Hacker News about TextMate 2.0 spawned a fascinating general discussion on text editors, specifically what people have replaced TextMate with in its intervening abandonware years. Because I have a blog, I leave my comments here! ^_^
| Editor | Platform | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| ZEdit | DOS | Syntax highlighting, in 1993! Wonderful editor |
| MS-DOS Edit | MS-DOS | Mostly in it's QBasic form |
| IBM E Editor | PC DOS | Should have been the default for MS-DOS too |
| Taco HTML | OS X | Beautiful little editor |
| Smultron | OS X | Formally free editor with side tabs |
| TextMate | OS X | Great for small projects, but I replaced it with... |
| MacVim | OS X | With NERDTree, it's my new favourite editor! |
| nano | Console | My first job used this, surprisingly! |
| Vim | Console | With vi compatibilty mode set to... off ;) |
| nvi | *BSD | Not my first choice, but can use now if need be |
| Emacs | Console | Not bad, just not my cup of tea |
| Kate | KDE | My favourite graphical *nix editor ^_^ |
| Gedit | Gnome | Very capable and lightweight |
| Geany | GTK+ | More of an IDE, but worth a mention! |
| C=BASIC | Plus/4 | Retroactively learned on some 2nd hand hardware ^_* |
As a matter of disclosure, this post was created in one of the aforementioned text editors.
[...] yesterday’s Hacker News discussion on TextMate 2.0, Ruben Schade posted about his text editor “bloodline” – the text editors he has used over the years. I thought I’d post mine [...]
Vim all the way. Have you set it up with pathogen or vundle to manage your plugins?
Gedit is my preferred graphical editor, nano is my preferred terminal editor.
@David
Thanks for the link on your blog :)
@Alex
I have not, but its on my to-do list. I keep all my projects in my own complicated tree layout of directories, so NERDTree and a split pane Konsole have worked out great so far.
@dai1313
Both are solid editors. I've always thought the criticism levelled against nano as being too simplistic have been unwarranted: I reckon it has the best cut/paste functionality of any editor I've used. Gedit is surprisingly capable too, and the syntax highlighting is really quite beautiful.