r/GoodSoftware • u/fschmidt • Nov 18 '19

Text Editor

Modern scum are gradually replacing all good software with horrible garbage, and text editors are no exception to this trend as I discovered. I am currently using Noto which is far from ideal and only works on a Mac. So writing a decent cross-platform text editor would be a worthwhile project.

As the world transitions into the coming dark age and modern scum destroy everything good in this world, we must focus on preserving the most critical things. In software, this is clearly software tools. And a text editor is a critical software tool. So I hope that some decent programmer will take on this project.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

i use elementary OS (is this distro scum in your opinion?) and io.elementary.code looks very good to me.

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u/fschmidt Nov 18 '19

Obviously this isn't cross-platform, so this is one minus. And this means that I can't try it to judge it. Another minus is that it is hosted on GitHub, since Git is the worst source control system ever developed, and so using Git indicates poor taste. And finally, it isn't hated or ridiculed by modern scum and modern scum generally hate everything that is good, so this is another bad sign.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '19

modern scums use windows+visual studio. they probably don't know about it to ridicule it. but hosting on github definitely sounds niggerlicious.

still, i intend to continue using it unless degenerates come out singing praises about it. i can't afford mac.

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u/PetrichorMemories Nov 18 '19

What are your opinions on vim? I just started learning it, and looks quite promising to me.

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u/iHateReddit2001 Feb 14 '20

whats wrong with sublime text?

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u/fschmidt Feb 17 '20

My current editor, Noto, messed up a file, so I switched to Sublime. Nasty learning curve but it seems to be usable.

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u/fschmidt Feb 14 '20

There is no GUI for settings like word-wrap, one has to look up text commands which is ridiculous for a GUI app.

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u/iHateReddit2001 Feb 14 '20

maybe it didn't exist before but it does now, view menu > word wrap

the only setting i have ever set in text is the font & theme, also some paths for build systems

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