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What non-IDE tekst editor do you use? (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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(Graphical) IDE's are great for development, but they're slow to start and heavy to run. Sometimes you just want to take a quick look at an xml or dockerfile and you don't want to spin up the whole IDE for that.

I've recently rediscovered notepad++ for that (on windows), what's your prefered easy-acces-tekst-editor?

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[–] jennraeross 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Helix deserves more love. Blazing fast, sensible defaults, good lsp support, vim-ish bindings. It’s really my perfect editor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You make a good case. I'll check it out

[–] jennraeross 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For anyone trying it out for the first time: If you aren't sure how to do something, it's probably hitting the spacebar in normal mode. That will bring up a list of shortcuts, including the debugging, file chooser, and actions (for the lip)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

There is also a pretty good interactive tutorial. Just run the :tutor command.

[–] beefsack 2 points 9 months ago

It's such a cool editor, but after decades of Vim motor memory I just can't seem to wrap my head around the cursor / selection changes. I really wish there was an option to just make selection work like Vim.