The Editor

[Jolly]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/usa-today-let-stacey-abrams-stealth-edit-op-ed-to-downplay-support-for-georgia-boycotts/ar-BB1g6Y3O?ocid=msedgntp

[Klaus]

I was hoping that this thread would be about Emacs vs vi.

[Copper]

vi

Emacs can be OK, but it is a crutch

Just learn to use vi and get on with it

[Klaus]

I needed years to learn that one can quit vi with Escape-q-!-Return. Before that, I could only get out of the editor by switching to a new terminal and killing the process.

I don't hate Emacs just as much, but I still hate it. It always gives me a million options and menu entries and only a tiny fraction of them are applicable in the particular situation.

These days, I use Atom. That's a pretty decent editor that satisfies most of my needs.

[Horace]

I use the Visual Studio IDE.

[George K]

This is the "Thread Derail" winner of 2021 so far.

[Copper]

To be honest it has been years since I used vi, these days it is:

Visual Studio IDE

And Eclipse IDE for JAVA developers for Android, I never got around to moving to Android Studio

And XCode for iOS

[Klaus]

But VisualStudio is tailored to a specific set of programming languages. What do you use for the rest? I pray to God it isn’t Notepad.

[Klaus]

Does anyone remember Edlin?

Old times that I don't miss at all. In hindsight, I don't understand the success of MS-DOS. Unix was so much better in every way, and there were several variants available that ran on X86 architectures in the early 1980s (including one by Microsoft - Xenix). Was it the resource usage that made the decisive difference? Pricing? Or "political" reasons?

[Copper]

MS-DOS was written for the IBM PC

IBM ruled the world

As soon as IBM announced the PC, nothing else mattered

That was 1981, only 40 years ago, the world has changed since then