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Posted by Philip Ollas
Philip Ollas
5,705 Points

Texteditor recommendations? Feed up with MS Visual Code

HI,

I'm totally feed up with MS Visual Code so my question for you is what texteditor would you recommend that is user frendly.

4 Answers

Joseph Davidson
Joseph Davidson
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Joseph Davidson
Joseph Davidson
8,667 Points

Try sublime text. It is free and has a great interface it will ask you to buy a license but you don't have to if you don't want to (although it is always good to show your appreciation to open source of course).

https://www.sublimetext.com

Philip Ollas
Philip Ollas
5,705 Points

Thank man, I try it out.

Have a nice day!

Justin Radcliffe
Justin Radcliffe
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Justin Radcliffe
Justin Radcliffe
18,987 Points

I agree with Rudolph on Sublime, although the pop up message reminding you to purchase a lisence does get annoying (every nth time you save a file).

I recommend using Atom, it's genuinely free and open source, customizable, with great language packages out of the box.

https://atom.io

Philip Ollas
Philip Ollas
5,705 Points

Cool, I really like that! I'll try that out as well, always open for new things :).

Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points
Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points

I can recommend Atom, brackets, notepad++ (I never really liked sublime), but I think it really depends on what you need it for - is it for front-end development then those will be just fine fine :-)

If you need an IDE I would recommend checking out this page https://www.jetbrains.com/ :-)

Philip Ollas
Philip Ollas
5,705 Points

I will use them for html, css, javascript, json and some python. And some where in the future for PHP and SQL...any way thanks Henrik for the recommendation, I will go and take a look at jetbrains and notepad ++. To answer your other question of why I don't like Microsoft Visual Code is simply because there is tooooo much of everything. I'm just a simple and straight forwards guy that only needs the basics stuff. One thing that I disliked about Visual Code was that it was a never ending battle when you tired to link javascript with your html and css...so I basically just lost my nerve.

Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
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Henrik Christensen
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 38,322 Points

Ah I see, I've never had that problem with Visual Code before :-)

I think Atom, Sublime, Brackets etc.. will be fine for all that.

I forgot to tell that the jetbrains IDE's are paid-to-use (30-days trial), but there are some with a community edition (free) i.e. PyCharm which is great for working with python development :-)

Philip Ollas
Philip Ollas
5,705 Points
Philip Ollas
Philip Ollas
5,705 Points

Lucky you, I have that like 100 times and it seriously pisses me off. Okay, well in that case I think I might skip jetbrains for now, still I'm thankful that you took your time and helped me out.