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Discussion on: What do you look for in a Code Editor?

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Simon Egersand 🎈

What do you look for in a Code Editor?

Does it support vim bindings? 😄

On a serious note: highly customisable, ability to write your own plugins, not too resource heavy.

I've been using Jetbrains products for so long (IntelliJ etc.) that I don't really know any other IDEs. Vim + IntelliJ works for me!

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James King

I enjoy Vim, quite a lot in-fact! But vim required learning and when you're pairing with other members of the team that don't use Vim... it can be quite frustrating for them to follow I find

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Simon Egersand 🎈

Yeah, I can relate with that. That's why everyone should learn vim :D

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Jeremy Friesen

Emacs supports Vim bindings. You'd want to use evil-mode.

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Pandademic

Beware of evil-mode though! It's addicting...

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Jeremy Friesen

I have become tempted to practice...but Master Yoda says beware the dark side

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Simon Egersand 🎈

Is it really called that? 😄

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Jeremy Friesen

Yup. I don't use it (vim has remained a struggle for me) but there's a vibrant community of vim to Emacs converts.