Microsoft word is a photo editor as well if you take my users’ word for it.
Oh and a spreadsheet.
And a pdf editor.
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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.
