Notepad++
Simple and minimal; yet super powerful.

I've recently started messing with Doom Emacs. I began my Emacs journey as a Vim user with Spacemacs, then started fresh and rolled my own config from scratch, and now I want somewhere in between. It "just works" but is also closer to just regular ol' Emacs than what I got with the Spacemacs system. I'll probably stick with this for a while. Screenshot from the repo:

(and VS Code ofc)

i use Vim and gVim with the same configuration

set number
set expandtab
set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set autoindent
set textwidth=160
set guifont=hack\ 8
syntax on

set nocompatible
filetype off 

set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()

Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'
Plugin 'morhetz/gruvbox'


call vundle#end()
filetype plugin indent on

colorscheme gruvbox
let g:gruvbox_contrast_dark='medium'

Vim.

I tried a couple of times to switch to Emacs w/ Evil because I, too, think Emacs + Vim is probably the best editor. Think is I always had issues finding the alternatives the few plugins I use in Vim. And in the end, I ended going back to Vim :)

Vim with Powerline in most cases for me, together with the stock netrw file browsing script that comes standard as part of the runtime files, with the following reasonably simple vimrc on top of the stock config:

set ambiwidth=double
set autochdir
set autoindent
set autoread
set background=dark
set nocompatible
set copyindent
set display=lastline,uhex
set errorbells
set expandtab
set fileformats=unix,dos,mac
set foldenable
set foldmethod=syntax
set incsearch
set laststatus=2
set list
set listchars=trail:-,tab:>-,nbsp:_
set modeline
set mouse=a
set mousef
set number
set preserveindent
set scrolloff=2
set shiftround
set shiftwidth=4
set showcmd
set showmatch
set noshowmode
set showtabline=2
set smartindent
set smarttab
set splitbelow
set splitright
set wildmenu
set winheight=5

syntax on
filetype on

py3 from powerline.vim import setup as powerline_setup
py3 powerline_setup()
py3 del powerline_setup

Depending on what, exactly, it is that I need to do though, especially if it's large batch operations, I'll just use ex from the command line, or occasionally an interactive Python session (if I'm manipulating structured data in ways that ex just isn't good for).

Part of why this works for me though is that I specifically don't want my editor doing things for me. I have no interest in auto-completion (I find it wastes more of my time than it saves), or doing full IDE-style integration with my build system (because, you know, I've got a plain shell open in another terminal window that I can use to interact with the build system). I just want basic auto-indentation, basic syntax highlighting, and basic indentation-based code folding with usable static presentation features (line numbering, display of whitespace when it wouldn't be visible, etc).

I use Atom. Before that, in a pinch, I would use Sublime text.

I still use vim :) with my own set of plugins managed by vim-plug.

ctrlp and nerdtree are my top two essential plugins.

I think the best way to get started with vim is the hard way, to copy settings and plugins one at a time from example vimrcs and understand each line that is going on. It takes more work, but I actually love being in full control of my editor.

I must admit, though 🙈 every once in a while I open up VSCode, usually it is only if I'm working in a large unfamiliar project. When there are lots of directories and files and I don't know the project structure, VSCode makes it a little easier for me to search and grep around.

hehe obligatory @maestromac ping

I prefer to see Vim as the one true editor and everything else as an "alternative".

I switch back to Atom every so often. I hide all of the nonsense menus and statuses and I find it to be cleaner than VSCode.

I use VS Code as my main editor and vim on and off, but just like you I'm not a fan of seeing one product or company killing all competitors.
That's also why I bought a subscription to Onivim 2, which has the ambitious goal of combining the flexibility and extension support of VS Code with the speed and joy of use of vim.

I don't know if it will be my next default editor once it's ready, but i surely hope so!

Ps - and yes, i am a duckDuckGo and Firefox Focus user for the same reasons

Neovim.

I make heavy use of PHPActor - it provides excellent completion and refactoring capabilities in PHP.

I also rely heavily on vim-ale, Neomake and FZF for linting and fuzzy search.

I have a minimal setup with neovim on mac vimrc.

I use almost same setup on windows except youcompleteme replaces deoplete. I use gVim for some reason the color is all messed up on cmder my windows terminal.

My journey looked like a lot of web devs that have been around for like 5 years:

Dreamweaver -> Sublime Text -> Atom -> VS Code -> Vim

I'm stuck on Vim now and I doubt I'll go back.

I wrote a whole article about it if you're interested!

I started with notepad (for about an hour), then notepad++, then sublime text 2/3. And I still use it today!

I don't see why everyone loves vscode. Sublime helps me work very fast and efficiently.

Why do y'all like vscode?

Geany. Fast, light, IDE on Linux built on same lib as Notepad++.

Emacs with spacemacs of course. The depth of useful stuff to learn in it just constantly humbles me.

Been getting really into the literate coding stuff lately first with jupyter via ein and then really deep diving into org-mode. It is amazing. I actually paid money for a print out of the org reference guide

I use, well,

• Atom for HTML/CSS/JS
• Dev-C++ for C/C++
• Geany (because there's no Dev-C++ in Linux)
• GNU Nano for modifying Linux configs
• KWrite for opening scripts (not projects as in Atom)

I do consider using GNOME Builder for working on C (other than GTK) project in Linux, but I still prefer Geany as of now.

Notepad++ is text editor I usually use.it's fast and supports a lot of languages JavaScript,SQL, and PHP(some may require installation of plugins though)

For a while before I started using vscode I used brackets, which I found very useful for front end specific development. I also previously used notepad++

I am spoilt and I know that it is pricey, but since I started I always worked in company that were using ( or allowed me to use) IntellijIDEA. Honestly over the years I tried Eclipse, Atom, Sublime Text, VS Code and - maybe was just me not getting the configuration and the plugins right - but i never felt so comfortable, and what's even more important - i was never so productive as when I am using Intellij.

Vim and Spyder. I don't heavily customize those environments, and I do use external scripts and Unix utilities to enhance my work with them.

Acme

I really like Geany. It's simple and usefull.

I use Atom. Landed on atom after trying out most of the major editors when I was tired of ST3

I use emacs for everything I can, and reluctantly switch into other editors when left no other choice.

Extensibility, constantly supported and improved upon by Microsoft.

Ironically I love most people are using the same tools, rather we all be on VSCode rather than everyone on a project using whatever. Preferably with some key extensions being shared.

I use webstorm and it's perfect for me.

I use Jetbrains products for development. PHPStorm for Php. WebStorm for JavaScript. Jetbrains products have tons of features although they are quite heavy due to the reason that they are written in JAVA.

I use spacemacs, but only with emacs I
keybinds. I mostly just like the color scheme so I'm a bit of a noob, but I'll probably switch to vanilla emacs soon.

I use IntelliJ Idea.
I like it very much.
I have used others in the past, finally settled on it.
VSCode didn't even existed when i made the switch to IntelliJ.
Never had any reason to love away from it.

I advocate that my teams use the same editor so that we train each other quickly, onboarding is easier, and configurations can be exchanged.

I have just done two 1.5 month experiments with two different configurations for VS Code. I am likely to recommend to my CTO that we purchase IntelliJ for the entire team however VS Code has so many great features.

It's not free by I love jetbrains

A Sublime fan, also tried VS Code, better. I'd like to add, whatever editor works for me is the best😎

VSCode is not bad, I'm more of a SublimeText Dev. But I also vim or emacs would work for me

I use Sublime Text editor it is amazing for web development

Hey folks, I see only a few mentions of Sublime Text 3. It is an exceptionally great code editor with equals of VS Code. I don't want to spark any debates here, but I genuinely think that after using it extensively for more than 4 years.

I also moved away from VS code for the same reason, wanted to see what was out there and settled on vim (now neovim).

Setting it up for your own workflow is half the fun, especially for web Dev.

I use ale, cocnvim, netrw, and then language specific plugins.

I used to do a lot of C# so I mainly used Visual Studio. It's a powerful IDE but one I'm happy I don't have to interact with much anymore.

It depends on the task. At work I use mostly Intellij, but for minor tasks I still rely on Vim (and Atom occasionally). I don't see me leaving Vim too soon.

Emacs. I have co-workers younger than my .emacs.el file.

Emacs if on cli. Or mcedit for something quick and light. Or Kate for complex notes, with terminal access. Last year, Komodo (but I think my Perl days are done). But mostly vscode nowadays

vscodium aliased to code for usual js projects (with vim extension).
spacemacs for all my org stuff.
vim for quick-edits and for files 10mb+.

At work I use VSCode while most people use IntelliJ and a few just Eclipse.

I used IDEA as main tool, and PSPad for scripts and text. Also, several years ago i used Brackets, but it is good only for web(HTML, CSS, JS, a little bit PHP)

Vim Forever. Once tried never went back to any other.

I have used Emacs for more than 30 years now.

I use VSCode for regular development but
Micro Editor micro-editor.github.io/ on servers/remote it's like vim but all shortcuts are standard editor shortcuts and ultra lightweight

Jetbrains for me, always did. I have the toolbox with everything, and at my state, yeah, it's 99 bucks a year, but for, in my case, a massive production boost over anything else I tried

I've always liked Vim, even though I was never conversant enough with its entire feature-set to call myself comfortable.

With that said, I do now stick to VS Code. Maybe I am too naive in enjoying a largely hassle-free (and cheap: 'free' cheap) development experience to worry about ifs and buts.

Someone posted about their gripes with VS Code's licensing model. I struggled to identify.

I am simply too busy enjoying VS Code and churning out code, to worry about contrived issues. And I ask forgiveness if I seem rude and/ or ignorant.

Used vim since the 90s. Sorry, switched to vscode 6 months ago and haven't gone back. To painful trying to keep things working.

I use Sublime Text. I fell in love when I was to insert a few lines of analytics code into over 2000 files! Its Ctrl + Shift + F feature for find and replace in files even in multiple directories is so cool. Plus the Ctrl + D for multi-line editing, and of course its smart code completion because am too lazy to type the close

Vscodium. It's VS Code without the telemetry/tracking.

Former Emacs user here, still remember someone of the shortcuts. I used to a lot of things inside Emacs 😂

I currently use Sublime Text 3 and I'm not particularly missing VSCode, though it's still installed and I should probably rip the band aid and remove it 😂

Emacs if you are king of geeks :lool
vim if you are a little geek :):D

I used Spacemacs in over a year then switch to Vim. Now VIM is my main editor with the set of my own configs with fzf, nerdtree are my most used. The reason I decided to make the switch is that even though Spacemacs is very good, IMO it can't replace true Vim feeling :)

It's not free and not a text editor, but the best for my workflow is the Webstorm IDE. It has everything for frontend development from the start. I know that the indexing process can be long at first, but after that, its super fast.
For a fast bugfix in a single file I use VIM.

I use vim and am very happy with it!
Unfortunately at work I'm on windows (I'm a Linux guy) so I'm running vim through WSL usually. However the standard at work is overwhelmingly to use VSCode. It's too bad, cause it does have some nice features and my team always jokes with me for not using it. But I'm with you; I'd prefer to use things that aren't the most popular to support diverse competition in our tools. And also because vim will always be my favourite.

Started on Dreamweaver and settled on Brackets after trying ST, Atom and VS Code. Because I use Sublime Merge, I thought I'd prefer ST but I love Brackets because their Git plugin has a GUI panel at the bottom. I love the UI and it's great once you set up all the code hinting and syntax highlighting plugins.

I use PHP Storm (Jet Brains IDE). I've found it to be both an intuitive and powerful tool.

Visual Studio Code

I love using tmux and vim together. They are highly configurable and super fast. Though I am using vscode on a daily basis primarily because the terminal experience on windows is so bad, most notably copy and paste. VSCode is also easier for me to reccomend to others as it works well out of the box.

Going to explore kak for a while.

I spend a lot of time writing T-SQL. I love Azure Data Studio (MS fork VS Code) and mssql-cli.

I often open the same project is several editors & switch back and forth based on their strengths. Example: Azure Data Studio has a fanstasic text editor but query plans are clearer in SSMS.

Is Spacemacs code editor inside Terminal?

I always use Sublime

I use Vim and visual studio (without the code).

I pre-ordered onivim.io/

That looks promising. VS code support but native vim.

I tried a lot of editors (gedit, emacs, atom, vscode, etc) and different configurations for vim. I even used vim for a few years but where I'm really comfortable programming is on Sublime Text with the NeoVintageous plugin. I kind of enjoy mixing mouse and keyboard.

Notepad++ on Windows (I open variaues EDI formats, java, SQL etc.). It is simple, small, portable and very powerful. Ocassionally I switch to vim within Cmder or gVim as for some tasks it is faster. It is really great to start gVim with zenburn theme and airline. I even added buttons to Total Commander for this. This is myconfig:

set t_Co=256
set guifont=Consolas:h10

" Colors and themes
"colorscheme gruvbox
colorscheme zenburn
"set background=light

"### Hide gvim UI elements
set guioptions-=m  "menu bar
set guioptions-=T  "toolbar
set guioptions-=r  "scrollbar


" Directory and file settings
set bsdir=last
set lines=999 columns=999

"Airline settings
let g:airline_theme='molokai'
"let g:airline_solarized_bg='light'

" ### Some gvim specific keyboard mapping
"
"Remap double Escape to exit vim:
:nnoremap <Esc><Esc>  :q<CR>

On unix/linux environments I use mainly*vim* with pretty much bare config as I cannot change it on the servers.

I’ll have to say, i keep switching between vscode and vim. Every now and then I gove Sublime Text a chance and it surprises me with its speed and then I see the outdated plugins and shift back to vim or vscode.

If someone teaches me how to use emacs, I will use it.

I use the EDLIN editor from MS-DOS. I run it online. For real though, I use;

• For web stuff, I use Glitch as a dev environment, and export to GitHub, so that's CodeMirror
• I use MS notepad/Notepad++/Leafpad/Mousepad for small things, depending on what system I'm on.
• I use nano for most other editing
• Also, Geany is cool, and I use it when I open it accidentally.

This is the real power of Emac's evil-mode (used by Spacemacs):

We can now look down upon both Emacs and Vim users :)

I love the minimalism of using NeoVim