(Graphical) IDE’s are great for development, but they’re slow to start and heavy to run. Sometimes you just want to take a quick look at an xml or dockerfile and you don’t want to spin up the whole IDE for that.

I’ve recently rediscovered notepad++ for that (on windows), what’s your prefered easy-acces-tekst-editor?

  • abbadon420@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I’d call Emac and Vim both IDE’s. They’re definitely not “just” text editors.

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      1 year ago

      Vim can have some IDE-like qualities, if you bolt enough plugins in to it, but by default it affords buttinx text in a file and manipulating it.

      I woudn’t classify it as an ide though.