{"id":6976,"date":"2018-02-23T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6976"},"modified":"2018-02-23T12:55:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T17:55:05","slug":"using-multiple-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6976","title":{"rendered":"Using Multiple Editors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I saw this tweet: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Editors I use:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vim?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#vim<\/a> &#8211; git commits<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/emacs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#emacs<\/a> &#8211; org mode<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/atomeditor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#atomeditor<\/a>&#8211; work dev<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vscode?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#vscode<\/a> &#8211; side project dev (new thing)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thomas Mattacchione (@tmkjone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tmkjone\/status\/966086830276988929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> and recoiled in horror. It&rsquo;s not that I think Mattacchione is doing something wrong or that I doubt he&rsquo;s a good developer, it&rsquo;s just that I know <i>I<\/i> couldn&rsquo;t work that way. <\/p>\n<p> I appreciate the idea of picking the best tool for the task at hand and it may be that Mattacchione&rsquo;s choices are exactly that but I keep thinking, &ldquo;How in the world does he cope with muscle memory?&rdquo; I&rsquo;ve been using Emacs for a decade and before that I used Vi\/Vim for even longer. Only recently have I stopped doing things like using <kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>k<\/kbd> to scroll back a line. That&rsquo;s the result of using only two editors, not even at the same time, over several decades. <\/p>\n<p> I&rsquo;m sure all this says something uncomplimentary about my flexibility but it is, nevertheless, reality for me. I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;d do if I were working in something like Java that requires\u2014I&rsquo;ve heard\u2014an IDE to use productively. <\/p>\n<p> Anyway, the tweet got me wondering about other people. Do you, like Mattacchione, use several different editors depending on what you&rsquo;re doing or do you, like me, stick with one editor for all your text-based work? If you use more than one editor, do you find that muscle memory gets in the way? If you have opinions on the matter, leave a comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this tweet: Editors I use:#vim &#8211; git commits#emacs &#8211; org mode#atomeditor&#8211; work dev#vscode &#8211; side project dev (new thing) &mdash; Thomas Mattacchione (@tmkjone) February 20, 2018 and recoiled in horror. It&rsquo;s not that I think Mattacchione is doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6976\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-6976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6977,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6976\/revisions\/6977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}