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 ...
Get Learn Enough Developer Tools to Be Dangerous: Command Line, Text Editor, and Git Version Control Essentials now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
