Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous: Command Line, Text Editor, and Git Version Control Essentials
by Michael Hartl
Chapter 6
Modern Text Editors
Having learned the minimal basics of text editing with Vim, we’re now in a good position to appreciate the preferred “modern” text editors mentioned in Section 5.1. These editors include cross-platform native editors such as Sublime Text (https://www.sublimetext.com/), Visual Studio Code (VSCode) (https://code.visualstudio.com/), and Atom (https://atom.io/), and editors in the cloud like Cloud9 (https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/). Modern editors are distinguished by their combination of power and ease of use: You can do fancy things like global search-and-replace, but (unlike Vim) they let you just click in a window and start typing. In addition, many of them (including Atom and Sublime) include an option to run in ...
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