It’s one of the few decent Electron based programs out there. That said it falls flat on its face when working with large C/C++ projects because it spends all the CPU cycles doing IntelliSense analysis whether I want it to or not. Its PowerShell support is kinda shonky… still. I also hate that I can’t run multiple copies under different user contexts (admin and non-admin). And it’s terminal anoys me with it’s “close but not quite cmd.exe” behavior. Oh and it’s Find All is incredibly buggy - sometimes I end up having to fall back to findstr.
It’s got many annoyances but it’s definitely my go-to during those many times when I just I don’t need the full power or crushing heft of full-blown VS.
I think Nano should have the Neutral Evil position. It implements just enough of the Emacs binding to create real mischief. Whenever I try to use it, eventually the Emacs-like bindings trick my fingers into trying to use it as real Emacs and I end up pasting ‘I am fish’ 300 times over the contents of the file I’m editing or some similar nonsense. That seems deliberately evil to me.
I worked with a guy who not only used vim, but also changed to a DVORAK keyboard. I figured that whatever coding he was doing wasn’t enough to keep his brain fully occupied, so the vim and DVORAK kicked it all up a notch.
There are only a few editors that can even handle multi-gigabyte files reasonably well.
What do/did you use that is better? Please share always looking for killer tools.
