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Discussion on: What Does Your IDE/Code Editor Look Like?

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Jim Pivarski

I once created my own font for programming, though it was bitmapped and only worked with pre-OSX Macs. I took the Courier (monospace) 9-point font and turned all the 1-pixel dots into 4-pixel dots. Colons and semicolons, periods and commas were very distinct. It was great!

For the past 25 years or so, I've used Emacs in the terminal (with the ion3 window manager, 2 pixels of purple border), but I'm trying to modernize and use Atom on Chromebooks instead. The standard dark theme.

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Ahmed Khaled

Hey, I really want to see pictures. Your emacs and font

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Brian Masinick • Edited

As a code developer/maintainer in the nineties I used primarily GNU Emacs with occasional leaps "Just For Fun" into the BSD implementation of vi (or vim, if available).

Once I started spending more time with LinUx software I have used a wider variety of tools and editors including GNU Emacs, Vim, Geary, nano and others.

At work (prior to my 2018 retirement) I used UltraEdit and at least one other XML friendly editor that works on Windows. I believe it was Notepad++