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by codazoda 101 days ago
I use my own text editor too. Nobody else seems to get value from it. I’m still surprised by the value we get from home grown solutions.
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I use my own text editor too, written using my own programming language. Fortunately Operating Systems suit my needs and I won't have to write my own OS ;-)
I use my own editor too. I modified an existing editor to my own needs. But I do use VSC as well for multi file projects. My editor can load images as well and has a scripting language to manipulate images. I primarily use it to edit my website, which is a static website in bare HTML. It also has some 'browser' functions in the sense that F5 opens a link including jumping to an anker if there is one in the link. It does have colour coding for HTML that also checks for matching tags.
Didn't even link it. :(
I guess the "link" is the implicit suggestion to write your own :-)
I use my own text editor too.

Sometimes I get surprise questions from my friends whenever they see my screen. “What’s that?” “That’s my own text editor!”

I’m currently writing my own text editor (it’s basically a markdown equivalent of Jupyter notebooks).

I’ve also written my own terminal emulator and my own shell. The shell does actually see other contributors and users these days too.

You can perform a legitimate muscle-flex when saying that too.