I just want simple tools that do one thing well. The tool must get the fuck out of the way of what I'm trying to accomplish. It also must reject LLMs in its development.
So when I look around at code editors I'm kinda fucked. Vim is AI slop. Emacs isn't yet, but it's also not a simple tool that does one thing well. Almost every IDE that's cross platform enough for my needs either gets in my way or is fully embracing AI slop.
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On Windows and Linux / BSDs desktops+WINE I use TextPad (sort, diff, grep functions); customisable syntax highlighting included with 3rd party contributions. Not an IDE, but its been my GUI text editor of choice since 1996.
On *nix boxes, I like classic vi(1) (Bostic's nvi) (not vim) and ed(1); the shell is your IDE. There are now at least 2 vim classic hard forks that have ripped the AI slop if you still want vim. See also here
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