If it edits text, then I would say it counts. I mean, I don’t know anyone who uses it to code, but…
Also, I think they just needed an obvious answer for that square.
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If moving from Atom, you might find Visual Code an easy transition. It is fantastic, I never use Atom or Brackets anymore because it does all the same things as both and is faster.
I use sublime for certain tasks still.
Especially huge files with complex multi-point edits.
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One time, when I was teaching an intro programming class, I had this guy who kept on submitting his code in rich text format. I kept telling him not to – I want to compile the damn thing – but he never listened.
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LOL. That is pretty funny. Plaintext is for poors, richtext is for ballers!
utf8? i’m using utf32 because more is better…
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I’ve been using Atom.
You should check out Visual Studio Code, loads faster, does everything a project focused text editor should do. Even has Vim keybindings.
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So, is BoingBoing the new Slashdot?
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Mac should always have BBedit 
Or at least Textwrangler (= BBedit Lite).
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Our commentariat isn’t even slightly as toxic. So I’d say no.
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we are only a ¼ Chan tops. 
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This whippersnapper bows to her elder!
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It is? The last release in the dev channel was in May, and there have been 16 other dev releases just in 2018.
Seriously?!
When I used it (years ago) that was the one thing that it was an absolute pig about.
I might be understanding the term of art because I never played D&D (because I’m not a NERD!!!) (j/k it’s because I never had friends), but what makes BBEdit “chaotic”? BBEdit would wear a bow tie to a party.
I mean, it is true that mainstream coder-sheeple would use the editor built into XCode or Dreamweaver or whatever, so in that sense BBEdit is punk af. But that’s equally true of all the other options.
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They’re all chaotic evil: blasphemy and lies existing purely to sow confusion, discord and animosity, rooted in envy and sloth.
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In response to a challenge from David Weaver; Beskone points out that echoing/catting to file is not text editing and Pico/GNU Nano belongs in True Neutral.
And Word isn’t a text editor, it’s a word processor.
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Personally, I usually use Geany when I’m editing source code, because it’s light, fast, and low on bullshit. I started using Atom, despite its bloat, because it supports Ren’Py formatting. With the right packages installed, I can properly edit, run, and debug Ren’Py scripts without having to open anything besides Atom. I value that convenience.
Beskone points out that echoing/catting to file is not text editing and Pico/GNU Nano belongs in True Neutral.
Sounds like he was bashing that choice.
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I suspect that this was…deeply not…his reason; but now I’m curious if (probably by virtue of RTF’s less-than-totally-systematic evolution as a ‘standard’ and exploitation of differing conventions for comments and escape sequences) constructing RTFs that will both open in Word without egregious violence and compile without incident is doable.
Scrivener must be lawful good. So helpful, so much metadata.
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