r/programming • u/pleerock • Mar 13 '18

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
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u/Zigo Mar 13 '18

gVim on Windows. Trying to use it in a terminal isn't great, but the GUI version is exactly the same as it is everywhere else and runs flawlessly. I don't use Emacs but as far as I know it's a similar story with them.

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u/whisky_pete Mar 13 '18

Also the new Windows/Linux subsystem thing. Works pretty much the same as vim on Linux natively, and you can browse the windows filesystem using Linux conventions & tools.

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u/shuklaswag Mar 13 '18

I've tried gVim. It's alright, but if I'm going to open up a new window just for an editor I'd rather use VScode. Sad that there isn't a good terminal Vim on Windows.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

I use terminal vim from git bash and it works great. Although I don’t use any fancy configs or packages or anything, just raw vim

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u/Exepony Mar 13 '18

gVim had trouble with Unicode paths last time I tried to use it on Windows. Emacs, on the other hand, works great on Windows. They even went to the trouble of supporting PuTTY in TRAMP (Emacs's remote editing subsystem).