downloading a Text Editor problem for visual studio

Question

Hello fellow programmers

I’m faced with an usual problem. Currently, I’m working on a site as a hobby and I want to use a text editor. The problem is I do all my work from school. Unfortunately the school uses a drive shield on all their computers. So every time you turn off the computer it wipes the hard drive clean and uses an image of the original operating system once booted up. With this said – could I still download a text editor and have it working for visual studio without too much trouble? Thanks for your time.

Paul

Answer 1

If they are restoring an image, you can't do it. Essentially, they are blowing away any changes the students make to the machines. I would either 1) ask them to add the text editor to the image or 2) bring in a usb flash drive with the editor installed on the key drive.

I'm assuming you are using Visual Studio but editing text in a separate program (such as VIM - the best text editor in the world). Otherwise, just use Visual Studio directly. It's awesome enough unless you use ViEmu to embed VI-bindings inside VS. :^)