About Text Editors

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A brief introduction to text editors. There are several text editors for coding and writing. Which one should be chosen?

GitHub Awesome: curated list of awesome lists. Find guides to use these editors in awesome lists.

Vim

Vim - the ubiquitous text editor.

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. It is included as “vi” with most UNIX systems and with Apple OS X.

Vim Tips wiki: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki

SpaceVim: a community-driven vim distribution inspired by spacemacs.

Emacs

An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.

Emacs Wiki: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SiteMap

Spacemacs: A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it’s Emacs and Vim!

Sublime Text

A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.

Visual Studio Code

Free. Open source. Runs everywhere.

My usage: Use Visual Studio Code

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