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Comment author: [deleted] 30 September 2014 03:35:27PM 1 point [-]

Am I the only one who loves gedit?

Comment author: ZankerH 30 September 2014 07:10:39PM *  1 point [-]

Apples, oranges, etc. Vim and Emacs are supposed to (partially) replace the entire userspace of an OS, they're much more than just text editors/IDEs.

Comment author: Antisuji 01 October 2014 03:24:58AM 2 points [-]

I consider myself a vim poweruser and this doesn't match my experience. Vim is a great tool and I use it for a lot of things, but it's absolutely not a replacement for bash, screen, Chrome, etc.

Comment author: gjm 01 October 2014 10:23:32AM 2 points [-]

It's much truer of Emacs than of Vim.

Comment author: eeuuah 04 October 2014 03:42:47AM 1 point [-]

I think this is part of where the emacs / vim divide comes from.

Comment author: Lumifer 30 September 2014 04:44:31PM 1 point [-]

People tend to imprint on whatever text editors they started with :-)

Gedit is too basic for me, in that style of text editors Sublime is much more full-featured.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 October 2014 07:20:21PM *  0 points [-]

People tend to imprint on whatever text editors they started with :-)

Actually (unless I count the time I was a Commodore-using kid or a Windows-using teen *shudders*) IIRC I started with Emacs, though I never really made a serious effort to climb much of its learning curve.

Gedit is too basic for me, in that style of text editors Sublime is much more full-featured.

Gonna check it out.

Comment author: eeuuah 04 October 2014 03:44:31AM 0 points [-]

Additionally, if you're on os x, Textmate is basically the other Sublime. While I don't use any of their super advanced features, I've used the two interchangeably essentially without having to relearn any key commands.