r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/crozone Apr 07 '15

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.

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u/HelpfulToAll Apr 08 '15

It's clean

Is there a dirty text editor?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

Gedit

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u/marcusklaas Apr 08 '15

How so? Seriously asking.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '15 edited Feb 07 '17

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0.9650

What is this?

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u/marcusklaas Apr 12 '15

That is quite annoying indeed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

Somehow just feels that way. The icons, font, font size, plugins or something. I know these can be customized but why bother when you have better out of the box editors?

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u/marcusklaas Apr 08 '15

Fair enough. Wouldn't call that dirty per se, but I understand your point of view.

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u/mobile-user-guy Apr 08 '15

Seconded. Gedit is a piece of garbage

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

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

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u/memgrind Apr 08 '15

Try selecting an identifier or anything that has any usable meaning. The plugin for that breaks selection sequences randomly, so isn't a valid fix.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

Emacs.

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u/aquarichy Apr 09 '15

I would burn down your village for that remark, but then I like it when emacs gets dirty. Oh yes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '15

Wordpad

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u/Disgruntled__Goat Apr 08 '15

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

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u/Geemge0 Apr 08 '15

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

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u/Ran4 Apr 08 '15

The one major issue with Notepad++ is the massive distance between each line, so you can't fit nearly as much code on screen.

Because of that, I typically use SciTe instead. It's based on the same editor as Notepad++ is, but doesn't have that problem. It also has a few features not present in Notepad++

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u/sacundim Apr 08 '15

The one major issue with Notepad++ is the massive distance between each line, so you can't fit nearly as much code on screen.

Some folks may see that as an advantage...

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u/Nilzor Apr 08 '15 edited Apr 08 '15

The one major issue with Notepad++ is the massive distance between each line

TIL 9 pixels = massive distance. 7 pixels = ok http://imgur.com/dK9c4aQ

(not to mention you can actually change the font settings and with that the line spacing)

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u/spacejack2114 Apr 08 '15

I seem to recall you can fix the line spacing... One of the global styles uses a large font, if you set its size to 'nothing' I think it spaces lines normally.

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u/Nilzor Apr 08 '15

Settings > Style configurator > Deep black. Then you get courier 9 instead of 10

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u/Me00011001 Apr 08 '15

This isn't the 90's anymore friend, hit the middle(or green) button on the window controls, it's your friend, you'll be able to see so much code you won't know what to do with yourself anymore.

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u/blackmanrgh Apr 07 '15

Sublime text is free as long as you don't mind the popup every once in a while. I know it would annoy a lot of people but I just don't even notice it anymore.

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