this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
22 points (82.4% liked)

Programming

17496 readers
42 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
snowe
Ategon
[email protected]
22
What non-IDE tekst editor do you use? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming
56 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

(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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Neovim can can certainly be an IDE, but its complexity comes from having a lot of features to rapidly edit text. d5d deletes 5 lines, vwwy selects two words and yanks them, gg returns to the beginning of the file, etc. It'll maybe do some code highlighting out of the box but its featureset is about never needing to touch a mouse or leave home row.

It's about like notepad++ on Windows in that it's very good for quick edits of a file or otherwise manipulating plaintext but it isn't good out of the box for actual writing meant to be read by other human beings.