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The editors I’ve been using – which one is your favorite? (robertnyman.com)
2 points by rnyman 4262 days ago
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johncoltrane 4262 days ago
I started with DreamWeaver 2 in 1998, switched to BBEdit within the first 6 months, switched to TextMate in 2006 and (finally) to Vim in 2010 after 10 months spent trying every cross-platform editor available at the time.

Vim is awesome but I'm fairly certain I would have switched to Sublime Text if it had been available for Mac OS X at the time.

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rnyman 4262 days ago
I tried DreamWeaver a bit, but mostly stuck to HomeSite back then. BBEdit never managed to lure me in. And yeah, I think Sublime Text wasn't available when I switched to Vim from TextMate as well
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writemy 4262 days ago
Vim (Iterm2) is my favorite. I use Atom for analyzing log files.
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rnyman 4262 days ago
Interesting! Personally I've used Vim for with large log files, since it has been a lot faster than Atom
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writemy 4262 days ago
I should have prefaced with smaller log files for Atom. What size files are you typically looking at in Vim?
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rnyman 4262 days ago
The files I had were about 30 MB
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