Text Editors

I spent a long time researching, trying and tweaking text editors. As a cross-platform developer and technical writer (mostly writer these days) I work with different programming languages, document formats and want an editor with particular features, but that is also easy on the eye. Ideally I wanted all the functionality I was looking for in one application, not split between 5.

The MacBook Touch Bar has been notoriously labelled as a useless feature... however, it may have found a home with the Atom Text Editor. Check out these different packages that extend touch bar functionality to Atom.

If you've used linters before for your code, then you know how useful they can be. This is where grammar meets technology.

Are you using the Sublime Text editor? If so, you may want to rethink this. One man gives his opinion on Sublime and gives several other options you can choose from.

I've been a mostly happy VSCode user for a few years now. So much so that I even maintain a couple of extensions for it. Before VSCode, I loved Atom. And before that… I can't remember anymore. But every now and then, it's good to look into alternatives and see how they compare, what options you haven't considered they offer, and if they bring anything new to your productivity.