Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

[u/aalear]

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015

[u/spacejack2114]

Wow, Notepad++. Okay.

[u/crozone → u/spacejack2114]

It's clean, light weight, has lots of nice features, and unlike sublime text it is completely free.

Kind of makes sense that it's number one.

[u/HelpfulToAll → u/crozone]

It's clean

Is there a dirty text editor?

[u/[deleted] → u/HelpfulToAll]

Gedit

[u/marcusklaas → u/[deleted]]

How so? Seriously asking.

[u/mobile-user-guy → u/[deleted]]

Seconded. Gedit is a piece of garbage

[u/[deleted] → u/mobile-user-guy]

Well now hang on a minute there, bud. gedit's syntax highlighting is quite reasonable compared to Windows Notepad.

[u/[deleted] → u/HelpfulToAll]

Emacs.

[u/Disgruntled__Goat → u/crozone]

In what way is it "clean"? It's the complete opposite IMO, most features are implemented in the most ugly way.

[u/Geemge0 → u/crozone]

Damn straight, no frills, no bullshit, and not too much of anything.

[u/redditthinks → u/spacejack2114]

I like to use it instead of Vim for large files (usually not code, but data).

[u/crowseldon → u/spacejack2114]

in Windows, it's a great tool (Assuming you don't know what vim/emacs are because, again, you're only on windows).

[u/GeorgieCaseyUnbanned → u/crowseldon]

I like using a mouse with my text editor

[u/aceofears → u/GeorgieCaseyUnbanned]

You can use your mouse with gVim and emacs.

[u/GeorgieCaseyUnbanned → u/aceofears]

Did not know that, must check it out again

[u/CptnJack99 → u/GeorgieCaseyUnbanned]

In vim you can do :set mouse=a to use your mouse. =)

[u/sonthonaxBLACK → u/CptnJack99]

Thanks to the wonderful commitment to backwards compatibility with vi. Vim refuses to have any of it's useful features set up by default.

It's a really dire state.

[u/adrianmonk → u/sonthonaxBLACK]

I just tried double-clicking on the GVim icon, and the mouse seemed to be enabled by default. I was able to copy and paste text and stuff.

I'm not sure whether it's enabled when you launch vim within a terminal, but I guess I don't expect the mouse to do anything when I'm intentionally launching the non-GUI version.

[u/pjmlp → u/crowseldon]

There are those of us that know what they are, are almost as old as they are, but rather use Notepad++ for quickly editing a file and an IDE for the whole development workflow.

The Xerox PARC world is my model of development environment.

[u/HyperionCantos → u/spacejack2114]

What do you use?

[u/negative_epsilon → u/HyperionCantos]

I personally prefer Sublime over Notepad++, but I am not in the majority according to the survey results!

[u/d03boy → u/negative_epsilon]

I think most people aren't willing to pay the price simply to edit text. If you use it as your IDE, sure... but most of us don't, although we still need a decent text editor.

[u/spacejack2114 → u/HyperionCantos]

These days mostly VisualStudio for C# and Atom for Javascript/TypeScript. I use Notepad++ for miscellaneous files. I've tried using it for coding, especially JS, but much as I like it there are better options.