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Rémy 🤖

If it's to edit a single file then it's going to be vim. I've used it a lot, it's powerful, it runs on all my servers, so that's very convenient.

Maybe sometimes I end up doing some copy/paste work and in that case I'm going to use kate as a buffer.

But if the goal is to edit a whole project then there is no doubt about the IntelliJ tools. The depth of integration with all the frameworks that I use is incredible and it's the only editor that I know which is able to help you so much with so little setup. I mean, if you're tying a SQL query inside some Python code it's going not only to detect the SQL syntax but also to auto-complete the SQL based on the inspection of the database you're connected to. It has incredible diff tools, fantastic database tools, integration with Django, Vue, NPM, Pip, Eslint, Prettier, ... Anything you want is there.

I never understood the point of VSCode really, it's heavier than IntelliJ and has less features out of the box. Also CTRL+W closes the damn thing, that's a deal breaker.