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    Tag proposal: editors ☶ emacs meta programming vim
    itistoday avatar authored by itistoday 3 months ago | 10 comments

It’s strange, if one wants to post news about Vim or Emacs, there’s a special tag for that, but there aren’t special tags for news about Sublime Text, VSCode, jEdit, nano, Kakoune, Atom, IntelliJ, or any number of other editors and IDEs.

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    calvin avatar calvin 3 months ago | link

    How about a tools tag; which covers other things a programmer would use, like build systems and editors?

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      itistoday avatar itistoday 3 months ago | link

      I feel like tools would get too noisy because of how general it can be.

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        pushcx avatar pushcx 3 months ago | link

        What description would you write for tools that wouldn’t include pretty much everything tagged with software or release, and a big chunk of unix?

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          calvin avatar calvin 3 months ago | link

          Tools for developing software.

          • release is for new release announcements

          • unix is for tools already a part of the Unix toolbox

          The kind of articles you would submit to it are things about non-vi/emacs text editors, build systems, etc.

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          friendlysock avatar friendlysock 3 months ago | link

          I really like this approach. We have a lot of stories that would benefit from such a tag, and if we get a large enough volume of just text editor stuff we can break it into it’s own tag.

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          bio_end_io_t avatar bio_end_io_t 3 months ago | link

          I think this is a good idea. Oddly enough, there isn’t even a “vi” tag, just a “vim” tag.

          Is it worth having two tags? A “text editors” or “editors” tag, and an “IDE” tag? At the very least, I think there should be a generic tag for text editors, whether or not we get rid of the “vim” or “emacs” tag (they are popular, so it may not make sense to get rid of them). IDEs may be different enough to warrant their own tag as well, as they tend to differ from text editors in that they frequently have built-in runtimes, debuggers, library management systems, etc.

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            varjag avatar varjag 3 months ago | link

            Also consolidate Java and JavaScript while at it.

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              sebboh avatar sebboh 3 months ago | link

              So we’re keeping the emacs tag, right? ‘Cause, this doesn’t fit in the proposed editors tag. :)

              With that caveat, I support the tag proposal. (Feel free to merge vim into editors unless there is some reason not to. ;) )

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                gerikson avatar gerikson 3 months ago | link

                To be fair, emacs is big enough to almost be an operating system so it deserves its own tag.

                And I appreciate a separate vim tag so I can block all wrong-think in my feed. C-u 1 0 0 0 hail-emacs!

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                itistoday avatar itistoday edited 3 months ago | link

                Also consolidate Java and JavaScript while at it.

                Point noted. Edited title + request from:

                Can we consolidate “vim”/“emacs” to a general “editors” tag?

                To:

                Tag proposal: editors

                Just how we have a general programming tag.