What Your Text Editor Says About You

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[@DEVDerr]

As a Neovim user I can confirm that I didn't even watch the video because I'm still configuring Neovim

[@changingmyselff]

lmao dude, you made my day, this is so relatable xdd

[@CaptTerrific]

That's because youre stuck using that garbage they call Lua! Now if only someone made a flavor of Vim using Elisp...

[@scrapmine]

You only need a decent colorscheme, treesitter, lsp, telescope and maybe a file tree.

[@Cargren18]

You are 100% true. As a neovim user I spend almost half or the entire day just configuring it for rust and c++ because I use Mason and watch a random tutorial at the same time

[@catto-from-heaven]

@@CaptTerrific Both languages are pure garbage

[@jeffreyhymas6803]

"Nano because you're scared of vim" lmao

[@maxave7448]

Its true tho

[@ArthurKhazbs]

Honestly though... Yeah, I gotta admit XD

[@sergeychistov8162]

Relatable

[@malekith6522]

So true !!! :D

[@hi-tk4hu]

CTRL S, CTRL X easy

[@kuroenekodemon]

VS Codium: When you hate Microsoft so much but you also needed VS Code

[@christopherdixon4472]

My hatred and distrust for Microsoft has kept me from even trusting that. Had a bit of a. Crisis after they discontinued atom and tried neovim for a while. Thank God for the pulsar team and their fork of atom

[@major505]

I used to love Atom. Tried Pulsar the other days, tons of errors when instaling dependencies.

[@christopherdixon4472]

@@major505 really? I have yet to have a problem. I do solidity and Javascript work mostly on Linux. What languages and OS are you using.

[@mtarek2005]

when u think ur a Linux nerd but u don't even know how to exit vim

[@monad_tcp]

No one needs VsCode, we just use it for lazyness

[@AzeraelX]

As a typical fireship viewer I can confirm I'm definitely "suprised" to see bigbox boarding the "text editor personality" train.

[@bigboxSWE]

i remember someone calling me direship and that lives in my head rent free

[@AzeraelX]

@@bigboxSWE let me give you a better name on that reference: Directory ship. Cause you're the literal Directory of knowledge who ships for us broke ass devs. Thanks for your content as always!

[@moomie1634]

Can't believe you brought up visual studio and didn't mention us C++ devs. We hate our language, but we will defend it to the death if anyone talks smack about it

[@Anton_Sh.]

Are you saying rust/zig you're gonna not adapt?

[@moomie1634]

@@Anton_Sh. cowards run to the comfort of zig and rust. The warriors fight in the trenches of legacy c++ code with terrible memory leak and bases that switch between using and not using namespace std

[@Sr_Cheto_]

FR

[@phoneywheeze9959]

he forgot borland/turbo ide in honorable mentions

[@p0tat0627]

FR man, C++ always been that toxic girlfriend, whom I can't leave

[@domportera]

senior level jetbrains user, never wrote a unit test in my life ☺️

[@rosyidharyadi7871]

I'm a junior jetbrains user, seems like it's tempting to follow your path.

[@lufenmartofilia5804]

And let me guess... stuck on a java 8 project ? Yeah I know that too

[@InfamousBear]

@@lufenmartofilia5804 lmao for me, it was Java 7 and recently upgraded to 8 kekw

[@eng3d]

senior here. also jetbrains

[@kotoxik5610]

Never worked in company level JetBrains user, im coding some stuff after reversing in ida. Never wrote a unit test in my life

[@paraflaxd]

I use arch on a 2013 thinkpad edge, neovim in tmux, I code in Rust and listen to the joe rogan experience. I also haven’t showered for two days. What the actual hell

[@rismosch]

Exactly me. And he also nailed that I prefer manga over Anime 😭

[@darkagesclasp4778]

Bro only needs to add blue hair for the perfect rustacean

[@aeronjarrett6753]

I've been wondering what Linux would run on the thinkpad... though I think mine is much older than 2013 :(

[@slynt_]

Should be C rather than Rust but decent enough otherwise Also do you use a tiling window manager?

[@plaintext7288]

​@@aeronjarrett6753diatro doesn't matter as much, desktop environment does if your system is somewhat performant it might run regular xfce, if not, there are plenty window managers like dwm, openbox, etc. that can work with a tiny amount of cpu power

[@lolAmbrosek]

All I took away from this was to move my vscode tabs to the right side and my day feels spiced up already ty. Back to the coffee shop 🤓

[@isaacdruin]

Same!

[@alexh2665]

All that’s left is to quit coding to be a tech KZbinr and sell false hopes and dreams through boot camps after holding one junior dev job!

[@thefanboy3285]

gonna try this right this instant ... or not idk

[@sampjm1898]

I don't get this?can anybody explain to me why you want to shift your tab to the right?

[@thefanboy3285]

@@sampjm1898 I suppose it's either just personal preferences, or for practical purpose : you want to read your code without having the files and the mess at your left when your eyes start to read another line of code ; you'd be inclined to be distracted. All suppositions, idk for real.

[@chandraprakash6202]

Best IDE: Sticky Notes 📝

[@ChampaLahare]

Lol

[@christopherdixon4472]

Notepad++ has entered the chat

[@vaisakhkm783]

@@christopherdixon4472 notepad++ has usable features... notepad is a better ide..

[@CoClock]

Sticky notes… more like Notepad - -

[@kinggrey2511]

Let Paper and pen bless you

[@SNTz55]

As an Emacs user, i can confirm it is indeed past my bedtime

[@DarthVader11912]

Yeah it's way too late.

[@nomen385]

I'm a simple man. I see bigbox notification, I click.

[@Kabya465]

True

[@codforc]

true

[@tymoteuszignasiak2046]

1

[@lasindunuwanga5292]

I am that simple man too

[@zweitekonto9654]

Guess im a simple man too

[@relt_]

notepad++ users are the true gigachads because they use their text editor like a text editor

[@visthj]

I can't believe the good old windows notepad wasn't mentioned

[@CoClock]

On that note I can’t believe the even better Microsoft Word wasn’t included.

[@ego-lay_atman-bay]

@@CoClockOn that note, I can't believe the good old ms paint wasn't mentioned.

[@yokedss]

well, there is beauty in the simplicity of coding in notepad.

[@Sigma.Infinity]

Or Notepad++

[@esausello8807]

😂😂 My daily dose of toxicity & self-imposed cyber bullyuing. The supreme motivational speaker🤣

[@abdirahmann]

indeed 🤣🤣🤣

[@NeetCode]

Damn, I read the manga.. guess I have to learn vim. Best video I've seen in my life.

[@bigboxSWE]

what are u doing NOT using vim bro, you're so close to transition into Algo Chad final form

[@algr3177]

The humor is straight up on point for this one. Just want to say thanks bigbox for your vids.

[@Nyxar-2077]

Bro did Vim users dirtyy , he didn't even mention it 💀

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

ikr. the neovim crowd came in and started calling their editor vim when it's really just vim with a roblox language and weird community

[@zekrinealfa1113]

@@harleyspeedthrust4013 roblox language > esoteric language

[@ncpeaksean4278]

@@zekrinealfa1113 which language?

[@niggacockball7995]

​@@ncpeaksean4278i suppose lua because "roblox language"

[@samuelwaller4924]

​@@harleyspeedthrust4013nah don't hate on lua. you just haven't tried it

[@bitwise4996]

I got sick of all the choices that I created my own Editor. Best thing I've ever done.

[@futuza]

Now there are X+1 choices

[@bitwise4996]

Haha. That's how these things are born.@@futuza

[@mrx6555]

Let me use it too

[@chindianajones3742]

I feel personally attacked

[@desertdude540]

I know. SciTE wasn't even mentioned.

[@username-example]

@@desertdude540 even windows builtin notepad wasnt mentioned

[@TehKarmalizer]

Writing garbage code without tests really pegged me.

[@jalfredprufrock1915]

That's pretty gay, ngl

[@DerSolinski]

Notepad++ brings back memories. It was and still is for the occasional script a very good choice. Especially if you need something lightweight and portable. And it is still maintained.

[@nameless4637]

As a Notepad++ user, I agree mostly young people use this text editor. I use both VSCode for Windows and Notepad++.

[@ChristopherAndersonPirate]

Young people? I just turned 38.

[@nameless4637]

@@ChristopherAndersonPirate did you watch the video?

[@usamaali2178]

"navigation on the right side of the screen", thanks for the recognition bigbox 🔥

[@t3dotgg]

This is about to go so viral. I’m both jealous and fearful of your comments for the next few weeks

[@CoolestPossibleName]

Why is this comment so deeply buried

[@bigboxSWE]

the anarchy has already begun

[@CoolestPossibleName]

big box probably read my comment let's gooo

[@bigboxSWE]

haha im only a bigbox in size not fame, i see most comments :) @@CoolestPossibleName

[@CoolestPossibleName]

@@bigboxSWE you are a big youtuber to me

[@Blind_Hawk]

I know it is a joke, but come on... we all think the VSC archetype that pretends is 100% real

[@Blind_Hawk]

@@lionelemilio4141 I talked about the pretender part. A junior dev gets shit actually done. The one just wants to life the style of it and act like a SWE

[@Blind_Hawk]

Ah my bad then. sorry man.@@lionelemilio4141

[@username-example]

VSC is great for little one file projects

[@harrisbuild]

bro came out swinging today

[@Cethris]

Man, the Visual Studio stuff with C# is so true and real. I can see all of it every single day at work

[@Garock2]

I laugh in the entire video 😂 man this was awesome

[@GXfookin9]

the accuracy of this video is beyond anything.

[@chhihihi]

Helix not being mentioned is oddly fitting

[@petarkolev6928]

Absolute genius!!! This channel deserves x10 the subscribers :D

[@theperson624]

Chads just use: Wordpad 🗿

[@RedPlayer_1]

Too bad it's gone now

[@username-example]

But windows builtin notepad is better

[@typetalk3726]

Nano is superior

[@slynt_]

While gigachads use ed in the tty, and they only start an X instance if they need to test their graphical program

[@zorxey3189]

man i feel attacked about the dracula theme

[@principle6261]

lol same. I use both firacode and the dracula theme

[@zorxey3189]

@@principle6261 its just a good theme i use it in like every editor LOL

[@LenweTaralom77]

My Editor is helix: For people who like the drawbacks of neovim without any of the ecosystem, just because it's written in rust ^^

[@angeldude101]

🦀

[@The88shrimp]

Helix is for wannabe hipsters like Neovim is but at least Helix users shower.

[@slynt_]

Rust is for cowards Write in C

[@sumanth3036]

You know it's a bad place to go when interviewer is using JetBrains

[@futsuchinpo9892]

eh why ?

[@sweetphilly2]

Here I am coding on vscode and watching this video then BOOM "PUT YOUR PRIMARY BAR ON THE RIGHT SIDE"....I never thought to do this. Thank you

[@Sr_Cheto_]

The sudden plainrock jumpscare caught of me off-guard KSJSJSJ

[@adam-the-dev]

I’ve tried many different editors and while trying each one I was at a stage of life that you called out 😂

[@MoolsDogTwoOfficial]

As a Microsoft Flavoured Java user myself, I can agree that I will defend this toolchain with everything I got to the grave.

[@stickguy9109]

3:45 why is this so accurate 😭😭 and defending C# part lol you're spot on.

[@chemical2401]

literally me omg. Does anyone else?

[@slynt_]

40-year-old Java and C# devs trying not to use a bloated, outdated IDE on Windows with a pure #FFFFFF theme on everything except the text (IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE)

[@torarinvik4920]

There is programming before and after JetBrains. I've tried different IDE's and editors and JetBrains IDE's are unmatched. It just reduces the cognitive load tremendously. It's super easy to navigate even large projects and the visual debugger is a pleasure to work with. If you want you can get the Vim shortcuts, but I don't use it anymore because the shortcuts aren't "cross application". I like the system shortcuts as they are the same in whatever application I use. One ring to rule them all. A good visual debugger is a must btw.

[@Joneewars2]

i actually moved the file explorer to the right because of this video, i better not regret this.

[@boscovallejo-nagera6073]

Helix: you're too much of a hipster, not even Neovim cuts it for you

[@0xtin0]

this is a banger

[@GIGATHEBOT]

no love for the greatest text editor, ed

[@joakimrosenfeldt9530]

This was a truly innovative video... is what I would've said if Dreamweaver was in it

[@agusaris5031]

Damn, you got me at "File explore on the right side". Yes, I hate my editor position change when you have long and large folder structure on the left

[@SpilledMug]

Everyone knows that the windows notepad is the best text editor

[@somerandomguy001]

rookie. MSpaint is the best we all know that

[@nomen385]

Noobs. It's paper.

[@SpilledMug]

@@nomen385 nuh uh, clay tablets are even better if you think about it

[@netdoll]

Arthur Whitney would certainly agree with you.

[@vaisakhkm783]

@@nomen385 no it's the worst text editor.. it's hard to edit things written with a pen.. even pencil writings are hard to edit written with pressure...

[@nothingtoseeherelolkek]

I use micro btw. Most sane cli text editor. I even switched to writing python apps in it, so I don’t have to wait for pycharm to load and bombard me with new features.

[@blubblurb]

You nailed the Jetbrains user. It's exactly me.

[@IWouldntIfICould]

(Brazilian indie dev who uses VS almost exlusively for c#) Never in my life have I felt so attacked.

[@ChillaxeMake]

I use it for CPP, but I use VS Code for everything else.

[@samyak039]

everything you said about Neovim user is me. just at point.

[@thesattary]

and what about your personal hygiene bro? :D

[@fabricehategekimana5350]

That was incredible XD

[@gosnooky]

Pretty damn accurate, from a VSCode using Gen-Xer who just gets shit done, default theme, file tree on the left but usually open to Git, gave up on trying Neovim, in bed by 2, unhealthy weed and espresso addiction, still owned an IBM Type M until switching to a Keycron during the pandemic. My Mom has a crawlspace, not a basement, so will have to settle for the garage.

[@bigl9527]

As a Neovim +i3 + NixOS user, I can confirm that I still configuring everything

[@angeldude101]

New user: "When do we get to the ride?" (using the software they're configuring) NixOS: "This [configuring] _is_ the ride!"

[@bigl9527]

@@angeldude101 exactly! I enjoy every bit of learning how to configure NixOS to my liking. Which feel a lot more fun than playing video games

[@ivv3393]

phew, luckily he didn't mention online editor websites.

[@ripple123]

you’re shockingly accurate at the ‘Microsoft stack’ guys

[@xmeo209]

As a notepad user i can confirm that it's better than every other editor. I mean... It's defaulted to whitemode.

[@illdieanyway7865]

I don't use VI, or derivatives of it, I never understood why it was so complex, I use NANO for editing small files and Ed when I need something more powerful, I recently discovered OpenBSD has an editor called MG, which is "Micro-Emacs" apparently, its cool, its emacs without the bloat.

[@stefanalecu9532]

Oh wow, an ed user out in the wild, that's a rare sight to see

[@kurushimee]

I've spent a couple years configuring Neovim but I still don't have even a single fully completed project

[@laief-kgolden6738]

i like how nvim got such a long segment. almost as long as the time it takes us to cd into the right rep

[@--bountyhunter--]

real programmers code on rocks.. No typo, no bug.. You right each line, you gotta be DAMN sure it works just as intended

[@OmegaF77]

You missed the Gigachads: Notepad.

[@RoamingTrend]

I know nothing about coding, but I appreciate this video.

[@sarthak-ti]

I was not expecting an Idaho reference; but that one was perfectly on point

[@nezunskyfire292]

One of the few people who use Micro (I'm hella lazy and enjoy the simplicity of it)

[@marcolartategui4832]

Me, too when I'm on ubuntu. On windows it tuns so slow. So I use Notepad++

[@sophietaylor9753]

As an emacs user, at 34 years old, I can confirm that I am the youngest emacs user I know.

[@mihajlocolic01]

As a vscode user i dont even care about editors just wanna make the software i need and im interested in, gave up on this industry anyway

[@user3679a]

But what about the classic vim user, that only uses vim because they get sensory overload when opening vs code or 2 tabs at once? 😢

[@jevonsygu1]

As a Visual Studio user I say you were spot on. Take a subscribe.

[@d3stinYwOw]

Waiting for roast of Kakoune and Helix :v

[@tanyesil]

preach!

[@ArthurKhazbs]

As a JetBrains IDE user... Never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with XDDDD

[@nyashachiroro2531]

Glad I found this channel 😂

[@Kirjahri2]

yk i was learning neovim but after hearing your description of the average neovim user i'm reconsidering

[@Irremnent]

I can’t believe you forgot about all 38 Helix users.

[@X-Dev_lols]

I use Helix because I'd rather not fight the stupidly long config process of Neovim.

[@Elektron1c97]

Pretty funny that I started using Emacs in 2016 as a 19 year old. That editor was double my age. Still admire it with all its quirks to this day. Preeeettty steep learning curve tho, I admit

[@ugudango]

I feel personally attacked. Like, for real. You got so many things right. 😭

[@ardnys35]

i use intellij for java and i won't do it any other way. i am gonna die eventually and i'd rather not waste my time with structural java quirks. i use neovim for other things because it works nice with linux setup. i can use vscode comfortably too. it's nice all around. for me, it doesn't make a lot of difference. i can enjoy all of them when i figure out what i want and they all provide it with various difficulties.

[@samuelwaller4924]

The best editor for java is to not use java

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

I use CLion for C and it's a great IDE albeit very bloated. It saves me lots of time, and I get it for free so I don't have any reason to use another tool

[@aidanb7782]

John Carmack uses visual studio

[@DotDager]

I use almost all of these, so I got to be offended through 90% of the video. Great service!

[@vishawashkumar5159]

As a nano user for smaller scripts and VScode for actual projects, it was on point.

[@arseniikaurov1686]

Where Helix???

[@sp.n7401]

the 5 helix users are not eating tonight

[@tylerlaprade642]

1:17 The tip to change the sidebar to the right is genuinely super helpful, thanks!

[@SzymonSaysStuff]

why? I noticed many KZbinrs use it like that, but I don't know why

[@DEVDerr]

@@SzymonSaysStuffbecause their faces are usually placed on the right side, so they don't overlay the code. Also editor doesn't do any UI shift when opening/closing sidebar In my honest opinion tho - sidebar on the left is still better because you don't have to stare at the edge of the screen all the time which is super non-ergonomic

[@tylerlaprade642]

@@SzymonSaysStuff It makes the screen feel significantly less cluttered. I'm guessing it's because our brains are wired to read left-to-right, so we always try to subconsciously "parse" the sidebar before reading the contents of our main pane.

[@RichardJActon]

Kate is an underrated text editor

[@jalfredprufrock1915]

Almost scary how accurate this is. I'm typing this on an Ergodox that I built my self connected to my Artix (Arch without systemd) laptop (though it's a Dell Latitude E6450 since good old thinkpads are just getting too expensive these days. I do own several thinkpads, though).

[@plaintext7288]

Helix not mentioned 😢

[@KingJellyfishII]

helix my beloved

[@Saccbot]

My left hand hurts for slapping my knee when laughing at this

[@_Lumiere_]

I hope your right hand isn't tired

[@lolikpof]

Actually the best video yet 🦾

[@samdroid37]

the nvim part got me.. i thought i was unique

[@zerodev_exe]

Next time you should talk about helix :)

[@Jackson-lc7ov]

where’s helix? 😢😢

[@oscarcisneros1368]

What’s that? 😂

[@Solsenderz]

Why this is so accurate 😁 thocky keep, stickers on a mac

[@konamimonoke5478]

This guy make me realize there are other individual who likes and experience the exact same junks like me

[@gg.cip0t]

long videos from bigbox is moooooooooodddddd

[@c00per_]

Vim users:

[@patryk6769]

he didn't mention vim did he? or is my attention span that bad already

[@muhammedhalilovic8561]

why would he bother talking about neovim-- ??

[@nomen385]

​@@patryk6769 well he kinda mentioned it under nano

[@winterinfebruary]

@@patryk6769 he mentioned Neovim at 1:30, though not sure if Vim or Neovim is the same (haven't used it, quick google search says yes, not sure the consensus)

[@pilot8720]

There was no reason for you to be this accurate. Please reconsider the amount of people you willingly called out and how it might've effected their self-esteem.

[@rafl277]

the jetbrains one is so on point haahh

[@tapu_]

I write C on paper 😎 ( I am a student ☹️)

[@vaisakhkm783]

not so different than writing haskell white papers.

[@oihandeshayes6751]

I'm 14, and I already used emacs, am I an old foe anyway ? (now I use vim btw)

[@vaisakhkm783]

you meant neovim???

[@jameslindsayiv4278]

@@vaisakhkm783 no. vim is not neovim, they are two different things

[@oihandeshayes6751]

@@vaisakhkm783yes sorry

[@oihandeshayes6751]

@@vaisakhkm783nope. VIM.

[@oihandeshayes6751]

@@vaisakhkm783 no. VIM.