Text editors compared

[Balog]

By listing which Lord of the Rings location they are like. Awesome :)

 www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/07/29/text-editors-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/

[roo_ster]

Heh.

[lee n. field]

Vast, ancient, gnarled and mostly impenetrable, tended by a small band of ancient shepherds old as the world itself, under the command of their leader, Neckbeard. They possess unbelievable strength, are infuriatingly slow, and their land is entirely devoid of women. It takes forever to say anything in their strange, rumbling language.

Is, of course....

[HeroHog]

Back in the CHUI days I was a huge fan of the Brief editor by underware, now I use TextPad which is the GUI version of Brief (as far as I am concerned!)! GREAT Text editor in a Windows environment.

[GigaBuist]

I never thought much of vi until 2000 when I saw an old hand Unix guy rip open some config file on  aLinux box with it off the console and tear around the thing so fast I couldn't even tell what he was doing.

A little bit after that I started using vim, ditching Emacs in the process, just because I was working in a language that Emacs didn't understand (ColdFusion) and vim gave me a good way to indent and unindent large chucks of code by raw tab spaces.

I never looked back.  When I left the land of *nix and Java in 2007 and went back to Microsoft doing mostly .Net coding I actually found something called ViEmu that gives you vim like functionality within Visual Studio.  Loved it.

I honestly can't go more than a few months without needing vim for something or another.  It's that good.