which text editor should I prefer?

notepad

Which ever one gets you in the zone and lets your code flow like water. I personally dig nano, notepad++, and CodeLite.

@garuna :)

VSCode

WordStar!!!

Personally a fan of Brackets. But I've used Atom, Sublime, and VSCode. (I really like VSCode but it's not exactly the best idea for me to use on a low storage laptop.)

I like nano, gedit, sublime, and notepad++ but I will say that I find myself using pythons idle a lot

i use brackets, its really nice and has loads of addons, also atom is very nice too.

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That's nothing we can tell you

Some environments really shine according to your main tool. Plan on using a complex build system with tons of packages and codebases? then an IDE would make it easier for ya, pretty sure some mavericks do that with text editors and that is fine tho. For most web devel stuff a good editor like sublime or vs code will work. if you have the pattience for it then Emacs or Vim are absolutely excellent choices. Me personally? I am an Emacs fan, because I also dabble in common lisp from time to time which leaves me with no choice really for a live environment. I succesfully run it on large php, python and Rails codebases. I can really recommend vs code as well.