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a month later

I used to use vim for everything, but I've seen the light and I've gone head first into emacs, which is now my text editor, mail client, news reader, and (!) twitter client.

I was pretty astonished at how many things let you use emacs keybinds. Like safari for OS X lets you use the keybinds in text input. After seeing other people edit with emacs I've realised that learning it isn't just learning to use an incredible text editor, but learning to be more efficient at the keyboard in almost everything you do. So for me, that's made it worth learning.

I also use IntelliJ when I edit Java. Its not amazing, but its probably the best for Java. In general, I do like the JetBrains IDEs, though I wouldn't mind being free of them.

Azertify wrote

I used to use vim for everything, but I've seen the light and I've gone head first into emacs, which is now my text editor, mail client, news reader, and (!) twitter client.

I was pretty astonished at how many things let you use emacs keybinds. Like safari for OS X lets you use the keybinds in text input. After seeing other people edit with emacs I've realised that learning it isn't just learning to use an incredible text editor, but learning to be more efficient at the keyboard in almost everything you do. So for me, that's made it worth learning.

I also use IntelliJ when I edit Java. Its not amazing, but its probably the best for Java. In general, I do like the JetBrains IDEs, though I wouldn't mind being free of them.

I have tried numerous times to switch to spacemacs/emacs and I guess I just don't have the patience to learn another editor

20 days later
a month later

i've completely dropped atom and now only use sublime

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For Python, I use JetBrain's PyCharm IDE. For absolutely everything else, I tend to use Adobe's Brackets editor.

6 days later

Vim for everything that isn't on Windows. Brackets for web development on Windows, and Sublime for all-around coding on Windows, even though it looks pretty disgusting on 7 and 10, even with customization.

a year later
7 months later

Switched from vim to vis. The good things of vim, more simple plus the awesome sam regexes.