(Graphical) IDE’s are great for development, but they’re slow to start and heavy to run. Sometimes you just want to take a quick look at an xml or dockerfile and you don’t want to spin up the whole IDE for that.

I’ve recently rediscovered notepad++ for that (on windows), what’s your prefered easy-acces-tekst-editor?

    • brisk
      4·
      1 year ago

      Vim is cross platform, just in case you don’t know

      • trollercoaster@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hadn’t looked into that for a long time, will try. I think the biggest hurdle for me might be native Windows terminals still being shit.

        • brisk
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yeah absolutely. I only use the graphical version (gvim) on Windows.

          • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s the best solution for editing huge text files in Windows. The other text editors slow to a crawl with big files, but gvim has no problem.