Do you remember my article about the acme IDE?

Well, I admit that I implicitly lied to you when I made the impression that acme would be the last editor you'll ever need. In fact, I am currently using quite a bunch of editors in parallel.

• acme2k (as described in the article): General purpose IDE/editor at work and when I'm on Linux.
• sam: Taking multiple notes at work and when I'm on Linux.
• notepad: Taking single notes at work.
• Notepad3: Replaced Notepad for me at home (Windows 10) - it supports Perl-compatible regular expressions and I use them a lot.
• GNU Emacs: General purpose IDE/editor at home (Windows 10).
• ed: Linewise editor for quick configuration changes on my servers.
• nvi: A non-intrusive full-screen editor for more complex changes on my servers. (No syntax highlighting, of course.)

Not counting specialized IDEs (because certain things, like Android development and doing stuff with Delphi, require one), that makes 7 - and some of them are changed (ir)regularly.

My first thought when looking at this list was: I need help. But I probably don't - I use it as an argument: Never settle! Embrace what the world of text editors can offer to you. You will never find the Swiss Army knife. Yes, I know, Emacs can do anything (and includes the kitchen sink). Yes, I know, "modern" JavaScript-based multi-gigabyte "text editors" (you can't tell the difference to an IDE anymore, can you?) can do anything as well. Not every problem is a nail though just because you have a hammer...

What is your pet peeve when it comes to software?

(My other one are file managers, but that's probably worth a second article.)