What is the Best Programming Text Editor?

http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-programming-text-editor

by shawndumas • 13 years ago

18 33 13 years ago

dysoco• 13 years ago

The fact that Sublime Text 2 is the most upvoted and Emacs only got 2 Votes is baffling.

StuieK9• 13 years ago

You just pointed out a really important problem with the way voting is currently done (we are fixing this asap). Emacs was added after Sublime, so it had less time to get votes. We are going to be doing some clever ways to reset the graphs soon.

codehalo• 13 years ago

Emacs has the default screen instead of a screen with code (nicely highlighted) like the others. Also, it has the smallest image. Even the f'ing icon for sublime text is larger. Please be consistent.

a_a_a• 13 years ago

via previous hn submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4418685 and the story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3792627

Also: http://blog.linkibol.com/2010/05/07/how-to-build-a-popularit...

http://www.andymoore.ca/2010/02/bayesian-ratings-your-salvat...

nkuttler2• 13 years ago

For your consideration

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=emacs23

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=vim

mattdawson• 13 years ago

Huh. Shocked that the install numbers for vim-nox are so low. That's always been my goto package.

nkuttler2• 13 years ago

Nice. Statistics about users of which editor have slant or facebook accounts.

ripter• 13 years ago

I have a Facebook account. Not going to add this page just so I can give emacs another vote.

sturmeh• 13 years ago

Exactly my thoughts, sigh.

nsomaru• 13 years ago

the "vim" entry contains too many "I"'s and "me"'s. Which is fine for a site that values 'opinion', but I am wary of accepting opinions from what looks to be an anonymous source.

Something objective like this seems far more appealing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

StuieK9• 13 years ago

To be honest that topic is in need of a lot of improvement. We do "objective" viewpoints well when the topic has matured, for example: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-search-engine-for-we...

We are also building a comparison matrix feature soon that will show something similar to your link. Also we are going to be working a lot on transparency around who contributed. Give us a couple months and I hope we can help you research subjective things "objectively"

Vitaly• 13 years ago

you call something with a total of 21 votes a "mature topic"? :)

niggler• 13 years ago

Was it your goal to allow people to make multiple votes? It allowed me to vote for both emacs and vim

StuieK9• 13 years ago

Well some topics are along the lines of "What are your favorite plugins" which make sense to vote multiple times. Do you think people would usually vote for multiple things in the emacs vs VIM style questions?

tenderlove• 13 years ago

The answer is Pico (because it has instructions at the bottom).

jlgreco• 13 years ago

I prefer ed. It doesn't waste precious bandwidth with error messages or instructions.

hkmurakami• 13 years ago

obligatory link :)

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

rikacomet• 13 years ago

Shouldn't Notepad++ be on this list?

Falling3• 13 years ago

Yes. And you should add it.

professorTuring• 13 years ago

My vote for QtCreator when possible.

And then, vim.

scottschulthess• 13 years ago

Anything that is entirely keyboard based and yet feature rich gets my vote (emacs, vim)

StuieK9• 13 years ago

Hey guys, one of the Slant founders here. I'll be the first to admit that this topic isn't the greatest.. We are just getting started and have a few issues we are working on. Please judge us on some of our better topics such as: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-search-engine-for-we...

Thanks!

TeeDub• 13 years ago

Maybe it's just my phone (I have a Lumia and am not in a place right now to ask for someone else's phone to repro on another platform) , but it seems that the mobile site could use a slight improvement. It's a gorgeous page, but if I want to make multiple comparisons I have to scroll up to the top... Maybe some nav buttons can appear at the bottom? Or at least an anchor link to get back to the top?

StuieK9• 13 years ago

Hey mate, our mobile site could, ah, use a little work. We are using the same html as the primary site and just using media queries and hiding elements to make it at least bearable. Can't wait to have the time to do a proper job!

welder2• 13 years ago

Please add title attributes to icons, like the suggest edit icon and the comment icon. It's not clear what the suggest edit pencil icon does until you click it.

StuieK9• 13 years ago

Ah good idea. Will be done tomorrow :)

mrng• 13 years ago

No TextWrangler?!

StuieK9• 13 years ago

feel free to add it :)

taylodl• 13 years ago

What's the best programming text editor? The one that makes you the most productive.

daGrevis• 13 years ago

So Vim it is.

welder2• 13 years ago

Check out the screenshot and tell me it's not sexy!

https://github.com/alanhamlett/Alan-vimrc

Vim!

What is the Best Programming Text Editor?

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