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Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherWhich text editor should I use?
Hi everyone,
The question I get asked the most is "Which text editor should I use?" so I decided to write a blog post explaining it. Here's the link:
Which text editor should I use? - Treehouse Blog
Choosing a text editor can be a little bit bewildering at first due to the number of choices available. Hopefully this helps answer the question for those of you that are just getting started with web programming. :)
7 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsI wanted to note that most every feature available in Sublime Text is available in notepad++.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsSince Coda, Textmate & Sublime all cost money I wanted to mention a free option for OS X Text Wrangler.
Rob Allessi
8,600 PointsI love Notepad++. Been using it for a years, such a fantastic editor.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsRob Allessi - What plugins do you use? I couldn't live without nppFTP & Compare.
Meenakshi Agrawal
6,285 Pointsi m using sublime n its experience is awesum..!!
John Wheal
27,969 PointsWhat about http://brackets.io/?
Paul Graham
1,396 PointsDitch the training wheels and hop on the Vim train y'all.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsWhenever I hear someone go on about how everyone should use vim I think of this
source: http://xkcd.com/378/
Paul Graham
1,396 PointsWell you could also pick emacs but you're going to be most productive if you can use the same editor and commands everywhere you edit whether that's on the desktop or server, on a brand new laptop or a 15 year old banger, 20 years ago or in 20 years.
I like Sublime Text and even use it on Linux on the desktop, but let's face it, that app is 2 months away from being abandonware in the style of TextMate 1.
Mino Wu
Courses Plus Student 32 PointsThank you and I test Teamtreahouse's forum comment system.
Kevin Niedermayr
3,072 PointsI used Espresso 2 (well the previous versions) for a few years until I started using Sublime Text 2 in beginning of 2013 with lots of nice plugins.