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. :)
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.
Favorite: Helix Future: Helix Current: Helix Loathed: Anything with JavaScript, a mandated GUI, or non-modal keybinds First: Vim Longest: Helix Honorable mention: Kakoune
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.Fave: Kate
First: GNOME Text Editor
Future: Kate
Honourable Mention: Notepadqq used it for a after when I first switched from Windows where I used Notepad++
Least Liked: Vim
Current: Kate
Most used: Kate
For anything CLI related I use Micro.
What made you switch from Notepadqq to Kate? I’m currently still stuck on my Notepad++ bias too.
I reinstalled my system at somepoint and just decided to used Kate since I didn’t have NPQQ installed.
It ended up having everything I needed from NPQQ.
sudo apt install kate it is then!
Fave: vim First: vim Future: vim Honorable mention: vim Loathed: anything other than vim Current: vim Longest: believe it or not, vim
ed is the one, true, standard text editor.
I considered whimsically including ed or butterflies, maybe as honourable mention, or as wish to use in the future. [/xkcd378]
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.
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.
It’s such a shame np++ doesn’t exist on linux 😔
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.
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.
Fave: micro
First: nano
Future: eMacs? Honorable mention: helix Loathed: vim/neovim Current: micro Longest: microI’m a micro fanboy.
There are dozens of us!
- Neovim for terminal
- Sublime for GUI
- Word for when i’m feeling masochistic (jk)
- Notepad++ was first
for GUI I use sublime and for terminal I use nano
its a peaceful life
interesting how things turned out today. no one will spend time configuring an editor anymore, and just use a pre-configured, possibly web based, default.
I started with ms dos edit/borland. moved to Linux and emacs/xemacs shortly after (this was when the two editors were split).
got emacs pinky and moved to vim. stayed with vim for 15+ years. finally moved to neovim (because of the Firefox extension firenvim)
find modules/nixvim/ -name "*.nix" -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l 3890I’d say I’ve spent enough time configuring neovim 😄
(Btw, highly recommend configuring neovim through nixvim if you’re already using nix. Incredibly stable. I had to fix one plugin or another all the time with plain nvim. Now, literally never. Plus,
nix run github:<username>/<repo>#nvimon any nix-enabled system, and get dropped into your exact config, keybinds, theme, plugins and all. I’ve set it up to expose language-enabled variants by appending e.g..goor.pythonto that command.)(Sorry my comments tend to go off-topic)
interesting how things change. i started out downloading scripts from vim.org before the github days. finally after 10years I got fed up and looked for a plugin manager. moved to packer.
a couple of years later, that went dead so I was forced to move again. now I’m on lazy.nvim which works well for me.
nvim decided to ship a default plugin manager. im dreading the day I have to migrate to that… (not cause it’s better/worse, but cause migrating is a pain)
Funny, I also went from packer to lazy.nvim, but then hopped off and redid my config in nix. Hadn’t actually heard about the default package manager. That seems like a good thing for the ecosystem!
My fave comment. Handy.
no one will spend time configuring an editor anymore, and just use a pre-configured, possibly web based, default.
Well call me “no one”.
wc ~/.emacs.d/config.org 4831 21376 200536 /home/digit/.emacs.d/config.org(… not to mention having written my own, in fish, since I know fish better than I know elisp (despite using them for around the same length of time), with the goal of it being simple to extent and reconfigure for fish users (like me, wanting a better handle on my text editor reconfiguring and learning how to better use the configuration language.)).
emacs pinky
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocapsSave you, it can. ;)
Though, then there’s also evil-mode, and spacemacs and doomemacs, which I think both have evil-mode on by default.
I’d swapped control and capslock almost immediately and still got emacs pinky. when I found vim, I decided I liked it more than the escape meta alt control shift madness, and quit. the vim script was better than elisp, but not great. neovim lua is better than vim script, but still a little lacking.
i too have thousands of lines in my neovim config… but if I was starting today, the point and click editors are adequate enough that I might not invest the time.
that said, I just added two plugins into my config today 🙃🙃
- Fave: Helix
- First: VSCode
- Future: idk
- Honorable Mention: Zed
- Loathed: Visual Studio
- Current: Helix
- Longest: Helix
Least liked: any that feel the need to advertise themselves on social media
I’m a typewriter guy.
I love my olivetti Linea90 as a work horse, for leisure typing it is either an olivetti Lettera DL or a Princess 300.
I’m guessing it’s a bit difficult to edit config files on it? 🤭
not really, llms have become quite good at extracting text from scans. /s
Because of the missing characters
