It starts in a mere second or two with all plug-ins fully loaded. It can be launched in any terminal emulator/tty. The Vim editor, that I thought was the worst thing to ever exist on a GNU/Linux operating system, was slowly turning into the best thing that I’ve ever used. Day after day, I was getting better and faster. I coded the website from scratch this time using Vim. And I forced myself into learning Vim and I’m glad I did that. I acknowledged that the problem was with me and not with Vim. I emerged Vim, and at first it was the worst thing I’ve tried on GNU/Linux so far… I said to myself “I wonder if I’m mistaken, I mean look at all those power Vim users out there and how quickly they finish tasks that take at least a couple of minutes on other editors in a second or two”. It also (although rarely) crashed on me in several occasions which made me finally make the decision of switching to Vim. I mean every time I started it, it took at least 10 seconds to get fully working and I hated that. But then as I added more and more plug-ins Atom was growing into a bloated mess of Javascript code that I couldn’t withstand. Instant preview in an integrated web browser, auto completion, amazing color scheme, snippets for everything and a ton of features. I then wrote the first version of this website in Atom, things were really easy. It was fast, and had a lot of features, but its editor lacked a lot of stuff I thought were important, plus using it just felt weird (with all do respect to all Bluefish developers, you’re doing a great job, it’s just that it wasn’t suited for a user like me).Ī couple of months passed, and I was switching constantly between Geany, nano and Leafpad until I found out about Atom from GitHub and boy it was awesome! Fired up that terminal emulator and a whopping 600mb package was waiting to be built from source, now isn’t that fantastic… Atom needed electron, the base Javascript framework that it was build on, and compiling a package this big from source isn’t something easy (all the Gentoo boys and girls who tried to emerge chromium will be nodding their heads in approval… yes I can feel you…) as you never know if it’ll work as expected or not, or if you’ve missed a feature or not but I did it, and couldn’t be any happier. I then found out about Bluefish Editor, and I hated it the moment I started using it. Throughout the way I’ve gave Vim like 50 chances to prove it was worth it, but it failed me every time. It had everything I needed, a nice color scheme (monokai from geany-themes on github), and was super fast, but it was only suitable for C/C++ programming and it wasn’t meant to be used for web development. I then moved to Geany, which was wonderful. They were pretty neat for quick basic editing (especially nano), but they were never suitable for programming and writing articles. At first I started using nano for terminal/tty purposes and Leafpad for a GUI editor. I’ve been constantly switching between text editors.
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