Sublime Text

Website: https://www.sublimetext.com/

Best for: entry level developers, editing markdown.

Strengths:

• simple interface
• cross-platform
• many extensions, including one for integration with GitLab (GitlabIntegrate).
• powerful visual git-client integrated (sublime-merge)

A powerful text editor, sublime text is an excellent choice for editing plain text documents, but scales up to full code-editing. Installing extensions is simple.

Configuration

Putting the following in Preferences.sublime-settings - User will among other things ensure that if you open the www-gitlab-com website you’re not opening the output files by accident:

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{
  "font_size": 18,
  "spell_check": true,
  "translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
  "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true,
  "folder_exclude_patterns": ["public"]
}