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what the fuck. what code editor am i supposed to annoy everyone by using now

vim, emacs, and nano are all good suggestions but the thing is that im also a windows user presently

@eevee @typhlosion "give me your most annoying editor to suggest to others"

...

"no, too annoying"

@thingywott @eevee see, the thing is that if i use emacs then im not annoying the emacs users. if i use vim then im not annoying the vim users. by using atom i was quietly being obnoxious to *everyone* and now i'm not sure where else to turn for that level of blasphemy. notepad++ maybe?

@typhlosion @thingywott well in my experience if you use vim then you will annoy emacs users for not using emacs users, regular people for being one of those insufferable vim people, AND other vim users for using vim wrong

@typhlosion i have a whole host of esoteric editors of varying degrees of usability, if vim is too mainstream

@typhlosion lmao remember when they said they would keep working on it 🙃

@typhlosion "There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation."

@typhlosion i have incredible news

on multiple fronts, even

@eevee if theres a version of nano that works on windows i will never use another text editor (joking)

@typhlosion real answer is that vs code seems to be the spiritual sequel to atom that everyone loves and adores, tho i've never used it. i think sublime is still around also. but last time i was on windows i used some fuckin shareware called UltraEdit or something

@eevee @typhlosion vs code is so good but it's electron and made my microsoft so I can't really recommend it to anyone without risking someone being annoying in the replies

@noiob @typhlosion not to be a huge dweeb but yeah growing up in the ie6 era has me pretty skeptical of anything microsoft does. oh it edits text? what next, it only edits Microsoft™ Text, no longer compatible with regular text? Oh actually that's literally a thing they did with line endings huh

@typhlosion if you want to really annoy people, insist on using emacs on a linux VM
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@typhlosion VS Code I like a lot. There's also Codium which is supposed to be a stripped-down VS Code. But it's been really powerful.

@typhlosion i love this journey for chaos you've embarked on, and this part actually makes it even better

@typhlosion I have used gvim on windows before. It's... gvim.

@typhlosion notepad++
People will say they're nostalgic, but [...]. If they do, then mission accomplished: you've annoyed them

@typhlosion let me know what you go with, I used atom the few times I worked with code and it made me chuckle when more code-savvy people got upset with me.

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