Text editor bloodlines
Software
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.
