A Tribute To Text Editors

This is not a post about the fancy tools we often write about here.

Instead, we’re getting back to basics. This post is a tribute to one of the most basic tools that all online journalists use: the text editor.

Text editors range from the basic (Notepad on PCs and TextEdit on Macs) to the fancy (TextMate on Macs), and we continue to use them for their simplicity and their ability to give us cleaner markup than any WYSIWYG editor.

There’s something relaxing about typing in raw HTML code.

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