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Edit: I just saw the two typos. If you find them, you're welcome to keep them.

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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Notepad.exe has been my daily driver for anything that doesn't need a compiler for decades.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 12 hours ago

I like SublimeText for everything unless a quick edit at the CLI with Vim.

[–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sublime! There are DOZENS of us! Dozens!

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 14 hours ago

I'm doing my part

[–] vfscanf@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Gedit was my main text editor for years. I also used it for work. It has all the basic features that you need for coding. For everything else I use the terminal.

[–] sockpuppetsociety@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Gedit is all one needs in life

[–] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Code in MS Word because it handles tabs correctly, unlike all code editors.

Tab means "move to the next tabstop", not "advance a fixed amount".

(I don't do it, I'm not THAT insane)

[–] ValiantDust@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Me: hits return.

Word: "Sure, here, a new line. I already indented it for you, same as the one before. Like a good IDE."

Me: "That's nice of you, Word, but I want this one to be indented one tab stop less than the line before." Hits delete.

Word: "Delete, you say? Sure, back to the line before."

Me: "No, no! Just delete one tab! Maybe, if I select the line and hit dele..."

Word: "Why of course!"

Me: "Shit, it's gone. Undo! Hmm... Move the thingy here on top?"

Word: "Move all the lines you say? No problem!"

Me: "Nvm, I'll just indent everything by hand with spaces."

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Winks in Notepad ;)

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I used Notepad++ for virtually all coding I did (Python, JS, various Markup Languages, Action Script back in the day, etc) for a couple decades. The only reason I use VSCode now is because I inherited a nightmare of a legacy spaghetti bowl and needed the function tracing to attempt to figure out anything. I still prefer N++ for most small projects.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'm currently working with some code that partly was written in the punch card era.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, if you had really bad locality of reference I imagine that would be very helpful.

[–] quantenzitrone@lemmings.world 7 points 15 hours ago

helix ftw 🧬

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] andrewth09@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 14 hours ago

literally me.

[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 10 hours ago
[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago

A fireable offense.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago

Vi came with Ubuntu.

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

Pe is the true way.

[–] coacoamelky@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

Elementary os has a great code editor, zed is nice, even gnome builder.

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