(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?

  • colonial@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The GNOME text editor or Nano.

    I appreciate Vim, but when I just need to inspect something or change a single line, the former are easier.

    As for Neovim and Emacs… I don’t have eight hours to set aside monthly to keep them configured and working.

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      9 months ago

      I’ve been a vim user for over a decade and I doubt I’ve spent eight hours configuring it in all that time.