What, in your opinion, is the best text editor? Please vote.

All of them or none of them. It all depends on your needs.

VS Code by a country mile.  Has the right balance of being a text-editor with powerful IDE features.  Has great integration for libraries written in TypeScript, and those that have Type Definitions (most JavaScript libraries).

Built in terminal and Git features are really nice.  It has a very popular and growing plugin ecosystem.  The vast majority of senior engineers that I've interviewed in paring sessions have been using VS Code, it's almost becoming the defacto editor of choice for the modern web.

Vim still has it's place for somebody who's familiar with it's keyboard shortcuts and powerful ability to compose commands.  Developers who are proficient with VIM can write and edit code faster than is possible with alternatives.  The thing is though we spend a very small proportion of our time actually typing out code.

Edited May 7, 20197 yr by rbrtsmith

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I've been using Brackets for a few years now but have downloaded VS Code to have a play.

It's pretty funky.

19 hours ago, fisicx said:

@rbrtsmith

I've been using Brackets for a few years now but have downloaded VS Code to have a play.

It's pretty funky.

Enjoy!

Will have to give Visual Studio Code a go, I went for other as I find for what I do PhpStorm is pretty nifty.

We all use Sublime Text 3 at our company by far the best in our opinion for PHP/HTML etc

It's nice and simple and loads of extensions available!

On 5/8/2019 at 1:00 PM, Logic Design & Consultancy said:

We all use Sublime Text 3 at our company by far the best in our opinion for PHP/HTML etc

It's nice and simple and loads of extensions available!

It was a few years back but you're loosing out on loads of the intellisense stuff you get with VS Code.  To do OOP PHP without intellisense would be far more painful - same goes for building any non-trivial JavaScript application.

It's still a decent editor for editing basic files but I'm not sure it integrates as well with modern tooling like EsLint, Prettier, Git etc as VS Code does.

Another thing is that VS Code has a code-share mode which is brilliant for teams that are not co-located.  https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share

14 minutes ago, rbrtsmith said:

VS Code

I've just downloaded VS Code and will give it a play - for a start the file search is much better than sublime. Might be a keeper!

Visual Studio Code is my favorite code editor. I like it very much. Thanks for sharing this good question?

 

I have been using Atom, I find it does what I need it to at the moment which is just basic coding.

On 5/8/2019 at 1:29 PM, rbrtsmith said:

It was a few years back but you're loosing out on loads of the intellisense stuff you get with VS Code.  To do OOP PHP without intellisense would be far more painful - same goes for building any non-trivial JavaScript application.

It's still a decent editor for editing basic files but I'm not sure it integrates as well with modern tooling like EsLint, Prettier, Git etc as VS Code does.

Another thing is that VS Code has a code-share mode which is brilliant for teams that are not co-located.  https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share

I too still love to use VS to this day, maybe its my nostalgia that even though these day there are many good & best IDE for web development available , but I only want to code on Visual Studio. 

For quickly editing stuff, Notepad++ has never let me down.

On 10/17/2019 at 9:53 AM, Hasan Raza said:

I too still love to use VS to this day, maybe its my nostalgia that even though these day there are many good & best IDE for web development available , but I only want to code on Visual Studio. 

VS Code isn't Visual Studio,

It was built from the ground up (in TypeScript) in the last few years.  It was influenced by some of the better parts of Visual Studio.  It's far less heavyweight and has no ties with .NET

On 8/14/2019 at 4:10 PM, GrahamUK33 said:

I have been using Atom I find it does what I need it to at the moment which is just basic coding.

Atom is safe. You can see the source code at the GitHub repo and you can build it from source yourself if you want to be sure.

Edited August 26, 20205 yr by mrjeff680

Right now, Visual Studio Code is the best free open-source editor out there. There is no competition out there. It is the best. If you are exporing the paid options then Jetbrains has some attractive IDEs.

It all depends on one's preferences. I like Notepad++ because it is light weight. Notepad++ allows you to open multiple tabs, which makes it easy to work on multiple files at once. It has more functions than simple Notepad like it provides more redo and undo steps. Being light weight it is quick and fast.

Edited June 13, 20242 yr by Mola_Ali