# My ideal code editor

**URL:** <https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/my-ideal-code-editor/10264>\
**Category:** Dev Env & Tools\
**Tags:** code-editors\
**Created:** [November 22, 2017, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/my-ideal-code-editor/10264 "2017-11-22T18:42:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmkarlsson](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/cmkarlsson/32/23000_2.png) [@cmkarlsson](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/cmkarlsson)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/my-ideal-code-editor/10264/11 "2017-11-24T00:18:54Z")

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> [@Eiji](#):
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> Emacs and Vim requires time learn and change habits.

The important thing is to bet on a safe horse 😃

I was lucky so that I initially used emacs and then swapped to vim. I learned these editors 15-20 years ago and the good thing is: They haven’t changed.

My shell hasn’t changed, man pages haven’t changed, find, grep, sed haven’t changed. Which means I spent some time learning things and I can still use them as it was 20 years ago.

A unix like environment is my IDE and it hasn’t changed and I think that in 10 years time I can still use the same tools. So well spent time learning.

During this time lots of IDEs and text editors have gone by but they never last. I can’t see VSCode or Atom live for long either. Same thing with chat environments I guess. The only one left from 25 years ago is IRC. Gone are all the other hyped one in between.

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