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I download Atom and VS Code almost the same time when I want to change from Sublime, and why I choose this two out of other editors is their auto-complete and intellectual suggestion features. I uninstall Vim basically because it doesn’t look pretty, but I am still practicing these shortcuts occasionally. However, before that point, everything is slow and not efficient. Besides, it would be pretty good to practice some keyboard shortcuts, since it is universal to all the text editing. It takes lots of effort and practices to be familiar with the keyboard shortcuts, and one could be more efficient once all the shortcuts could be used without thinking. Package: too many packages make it a burden to find the best plugin, sometimes even need recommendations or researches.Performance: slow and less efficient if not familiar with the shortcuts, since all the operation are keyboard based.Customize: the overall look is not quite pretty.Flexible: could be very flexible and powerful based on user setup.Package: huge amount of packages for almost everything.Performance: fast and efficient if one is familiar with all the shortcuts.However, it requires a lot of practices and searches to reach that level, otherwise it might be a burden. I only tried Vim for couple weeks when I found a article talking about how powerful Vim could be. The reason why I change to other text editor is mainly because its auto-suggestion is not as intelligent as others, since it requires remembering common functions, while it is difficult for me since I keep learning and switching from different languages. Sublime is my first text editor, and I used it the longest.

Git: the Git plugin is not quite useful (for me), need to manually commit.

Suggestions: only based on snippet, no context or language based suggestions.

Package: package control is not installed ahead, so some searching needed powerful only with plugins.

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Cost: free download, but require $70 license fee, otherwise frequent “buy license” pop-up.Reliable: no need to do anything else once everything is installed and set up.Customize: looks nice, also has many theme to choose from, and able to configure using JSON file.Package: lots of packages and themes provided.Performance: all the operations like opening, closing, searching is fast and smooth.When I first used Sublime, the VS Code and Atom is not even released, and it is quite user-friendly for beginners comparing to Vim.

The following order is based on my download and experience sequence.

I think it would be helpful to provide some comparison between these text editors according to my own experience, so as to provide some hopefully useful information for anyone considering getting or changing a text editor. As for me, I could not bear using a text editor with the design or layout I don’t like, which makes it a key point when I’m choosing text editors. Over the years, I have been using some of the most common text editors: Atom, Sublime, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and Vim, and for now I am using VS Code as my main text editor. Besides, I am using a Mac, and never tried any on the Windows.Īs a student majoring in computer science, text editor is a important tool to improve coding efficiency. Important: The whole comparison is totally based on my own experience, so some opinions are subjective, especially user experience related ones.

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