I regret nothing. Say what you want.
Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you're welcome to keep them.
Notepad.exe has been my daily driver for anything that doesn't need a compiler for decades.
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I like SublimeText for everything unless a quick edit at the CLI with Vim.
Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!
I'm doing my part
Gedit was my main text editor for years. I also used it for work. It has all the basic features that you need for coding. For everything else I use the terminal.
Gedit is all one needs in life
Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.
Tab means "move to the next tabstop", not "advance a fixed amount".
(I don't do it, I'm not THAT insane)
Me: hits return.
Word: "Sure, here, a new line. I already indented it for you, same as the one before. Like a good IDE."
Me: "That's nice of you, Word, but I want this one to be indented one tab stop less than the line before." Hits delete.
Word: "Delete, you say? Sure, back to the line before."
Me: "No, no! Just delete one tab! Maybe, if I select the line and hit dele..."
Word: "Why of course!"
Me: "Shit, it's gone. Undo! Hmm... Move the thingy here on top?"
Word: "Move all the lines you say? No problem!"
Me: "Nvm, I'll just indent everything by hand with spaces."
Winks in Notepad ;)
I used Notepad++ for virtually all coding I did (Python, JS, various Markup Languages, Action Script back in the day, etc) for a couple decades. The only reason I use VSCode now is because I inherited a nightmare of a legacy spaghetti bowl and needed the function tracing to attempt to figure out anything. I still prefer N++ for most small projects.
I'm currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.
Yeah, if you had really bad locality of reference I imagine that would be very helpful.
helix ftw 🧬
notepad.exe
wine notepad.exe
literally me.
vim ftw.
A fireable offense.
Vi came with Ubuntu.
Elementary os has a great code editor, zed is nice, even gnome builder.