Just for fun and discovery.
Same as for distros and DE/WM.
Share your own, as an image, or just a written list. :)
Mine:
- Fave: Fin
- First: Kate/Kwrite (KDE3 era (… no logo back then though?))
- Future: Fin
- Honourable Mention: Midnight Commander’s mcedit
- Loathed: Copilot Studio
- Current: GNU Emacs
- Longest: GNU Emacs
;) I didn’t want to wait and see if @[email protected] would make a text editor one. So I just made my own. :)
Nano for privileged editing and Kate for everything else
Micro, if I can reasonably get it onto a system, it will stay there. I don’t really need anything more to tweak configs
Nano for privileged editing and Kate for everything else
Nano and kate I edit text, not write configs.
TUI-nano (you vi people are insane. I will die on this hill) GUI-as long as it’s not ms word, I could give a damn
Fave: vim First: vim Future: vim Honorable mention: vim Loathed: anything other than vim Current: vim Longest: believe it or not, vim
Is that just cause you don’t know how to close it?
Fave: vim
First: notepad.exe
Future: vim
Honorable mention: vi
Loathed: Everything but (neo)?vim?
Current: vim
Longest: vimI’d make my own reply but this person speaks for me.
I’ve used so many over the years. Sublime was really cool for a bit. Notepad++ and UltraEdit look like ass but they were both daily drivers for a long time. These days I bounce between codium and vim throughout the day. I kinda hate codium/vscode but I use it for the same reason I’ve used vim for so long: it’s functional and available everywhere.
I should really give one of the newer vim clones a closer look one of these days.
writing a text editor in a shell language is certainly… a choice. also this kinda feels like an ad for your own project.
anyway i’ve gone notepad, np++, eclipse, sublime, atom, vim, nvim, back to vim, then vis, then vim again, and now helix, which i’ll hopefully stick with a while. worst has gotta be the GMod Wiremod Expression editor. honorable mention to acme.
Oh damn, I forgot about acme. Plan 9 is a trip.
Don’t use fin. It, like all my stuff, is scruffy.
It’s just honestly my fave (~ Would be weirder if I were writing it masochistically to not be my fave). Wrote it with intention of using it in the future.
as long as you’re having fun and learning. although i don’t know if it’s dogfooding if you’re a one-man band; seems more like just cooking.
had an itch, and when the whim took inspiration, scratched it.
It’s such a shame np++ doesn’t exist on linux 😔
I mentioned it in my own comment but there’s a pretty much 1 to 1 clone of Notepad++ on Linux called Notepadqq
Thanks! Will check out!
gedit and kate are better alternatives honestly. and with their security practices i would rather be without.
Interesting, what are their bad security practices?
I have kate but it’s way behind notepad++, IMO! Will check out gedit, thanks.
they did their autoupdate through an unencrypted connection, without any verification, and just executed the payload locally. when pressed about it they added https but then it turned out they had no auth on the update server. it was a whole thing, took several years for them to correct and they complained every step.
Ouch!
Favorite: Helix Future: Helix Current: Helix Loathed: Anything with JavaScript, a mandated GUI, or non-modal keybinds First: Vim Longest: Helix Honorable mention: Kakoune
Are you me??
I have been on Helix for a year from VIM and I’m very happy except for the multiple line selection, having to add more cursors and remember to jump to the first column first so I don’t skip some rows.
That’s fun! I’m currently comming from Neovim to see if Emacs is for me. I’ve only really used Neovim for half a year and Emacs for less than a week so who knows? I’ve actually only been sent on this rollercoaster ride by JetBrains trying to sneak AI training data collection into IntelliJ almost a year ago, eventually being annoyed by how clanky Eclipse is. Am I annoyed by Neovim? No, not at all, I just want to see if I like Emacs even better.
- fave: vim
- first: ED-IT?
- future: vim
- honorable mention: emacs
- loathed: ed
- current: vim
- longest: vi
vim is basically my foreverhome at this point. I feel clumsy trying to use most other things. But I also like emacs shortcuts and learned a bunch of them unwittingly via bash having that mode set out of the box.
Fave: I don’t really do favourites, but I tend to reach for
nanobecause it’s usually installed and I prefer it to thevifamily.First: The 8-bit Commodore screen editor was hard to beat for its time, so let’s go with that, even though I probably used the BBC Micro arrow / copy system before that.
Future: Heck if I know. I installed
microbut haven’t touched it yet. Maybe one day I’ll get around to that. Or an IDE. So probablynano.Honourable mention: An editor I worked on for a project once. There’s something to be said for editing an editor’s source code inside itself.
Loathed:
ed/edlinCurrent: Let’s go with
nanoagain, but I do lot more typing on command lines and in browser text boxes, like this one.Longest: If
picocounts as proto-nano, then definitelynano. Been using that since the '90s.I’m honestly torn between Nvim and Emacs right now. I’m a long time vim user and been on Nvim for 10+ years. The rate at which they change config methods kinda drives me nuts. The change from vimscript to lua, and then a new mixup of lua to another syntax of lua, NEED TO CHANGE THE LUA!!! It’s too much. I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while because the plugin ecosystem moves lightning fast. Now most of the time I feel like I’m using a half baked config solution even on a new from scratch setup.
Emacs feels like a breath of fresh air. I’m still working out the kinks but it feels like it just works when I tell it to do something. I’m not using evil mode. I dove head first into vanilla and it’s been really nice. ELisp is wild. I have no fucking clue what I’m doing with it, but it all seems to be working. The fact that it took me 3 days to get my Emacs setup to where I am with Nvim and beyond was a great start to the switch. I’m really enjoying Emacs and there’s definitely a past version of me going ‘What the fuck’ right now.
