When it comes to coding, your choice of text editor or terminal emulator can have a big impact on your productivity and workflow. So, we want to know: what's your favorite text editor or terminal emulator, and why? Is there a specific feature that you can't live without, or a particular aspect of the interface that makes your coding experience more enjoyable? Are there any lesser-known text editors or terminal emulators that you think deserve more attention? Share your thoughts and opinions with the community, and let's see if we can discover some new favorites!
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Now there are various utilities and apps for working with text, creating and editing it, and in the article on Setapp setapp.com/how-to/best-text-editor... you can find the best options and solutions. What I think is the best one is Craft, which also has a built-in AI assistant, which is never superfluous.
Vim and Terminator with Oh-my-zsh! :)
nvim and Alacritty. I love nvim for lua config and plugin support among many other advantages, and I love Alacritty for it's support for wider color gamut than the iTerm, that's very important to me because I love the aesthetics of the programming as much as i love the substance :)
it's not easy to navigate Alacritty with nvim without multiplexer, and that's why I use Tmux to make that experience better
I really enjoy VS Code. I feel like its used everywhere.
Terminal Editor: neovim
Graphical Editor: Onivim2 and VimR
Terminal: iTerm2 on MacOS
terminal mac:iterm2 I can split many subterminal window, so each terminals fit on 1 screen. On windows: gitbash ... saddly my company laptop was window I do not like compare to macos fare worst for work. Even terminal. Editor is vscode on all system. Few plugin so slow. But easy to configure, can I use for js to rust many language. That is a swisblade. On terminal nano.
Favorite text editor: Vim
Favorite terminal emulator: Terminal.app (macOS)
I am aware of (and probably have used) all the popular editors out there, including all the other
vialternatives. I'm also aware of the many other terminal emulators, and probably have used a bunch of them.My other favorite editors in bygone days: Ced (CygnusEd), emacs (µemacs in particular), Brief (by Underware), and Sidekick (by Borland).
Although not asked, my favorite shell is bash. But only because I'm very familiar with it, not because I have it on a pedestal of it being the ultimate shell. If I had enough motivation to give it a serious try, I suspect I'd like PowerShell even more.
Midnight Commander's native editor / zsh / ohmuzsh
Neovim for everything, running inside tmux, with all my shortcuts for managing sessions and windows properly set up.
For Java - Eclipse, for c++ Visual Community