On: One with Vim

[sixtofour]

Visual Studio? Sure, as long as you're only going to be coding on Windows.

I'm curious, does anyone use Visual Studio for non-code editing? For example, I'm typing this in Vim right now. I use Vim for lots of meant-for-human-readers text.

[georgieporgie → sixtofour]

> as long as you're only going to be coding on Windows.

In the past, I've used VS for editing PHP, which I then deployed to the server using a keyboard shortcut.

I understand what you're saying, but I want to point out that VS can be used as an editor even when the target platform isn't MS.

[sixtofour → georgieporgie]

Yes I'm sure it can.

What I'm curious about, is it so good an editor that people commonly use it for general text editing for non-code text? I know Vim and Emacs gets used like that a lot, maybe Notepad too.

[georgieporgie → sixtofour]

As I said to another commenter, yes, as long as I have a VS instance running, it's my text editor of choice.

The startup time is too long for off-hand editing (I suppose this is hardware dependent). In that case, I'll open Notepad for quick to-do lists, or vi for non-line-ending-mangling tasks. It's pretty unusual for me not to have VS running, though.

[semanticist → georgieporgie]

But can you use it as an editor when the target platform is humans, that is, when you're not writing code at all?

[georgieporgie → semanticist]

Sure, why not?

I wouldn't start up a VS instance just to edit text, but if I have one running, it's my editor of choice.