I don't use JetBrains because it's not free, I mainly use VSCode since it is and works fine, but I would use np++ after that. I spent years working in np++.

I played with linux in the early '90s, but mostly got started on GenToo Linux years ago and they had people installing Nano when building from the ground up. I grew to like that and never really learned VIM. I did use emacs every now and again, but all of those have lots of unwieldy key combinations that require memorization and don't work like a lot of other programs people coming from, for instance, Windows would be at all familiar with. The barrier to entry was too high to bother with so it was wine and np++ since I was also still using Windows for work.

I've been forced to use a Mac for work for the last almost-year and still can't find anything as good as np++. BBCode is as close as I can get and I'm still not really a fan.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

VSCode for osx, why not use this?

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, unclear on my part. I do use vscode on Mac, but still want a text editor to do other stuff.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

ah ok - yeah, i have the same struggle. Mac's default Editor is too Rich-Text centric.