vim

I’m on team “whatever comes pre-installed”

What to do other than installing nano and changing visudo?

suffer.

isnt the whole point we get to use the tools we want?

Neovim

I use vim. I learned it because I started on a bunch of hosts where I couldn’t install what I wanted. But unless you have a similar restriction, go ahead and install what you like.

It’s a good idea to play around with others to see what they have to offer, but at the end of the day, you do you

nano for quick things; emacs for longer typing sessions.

Team Neovim.

I looked into ed, then decided its not for me.

I only ever use a terminal based editor for making quick edits of config files, so nano works just fine for me.

When I ran a trivia bot on irc back in the day, I used to use sed to edit question files. But mostly use nano now. I don’t do anything all day and COULD learn vim/emacs/something else. But I cbf

I used Neovim for a couple of years and then switched to Emacs. I love it.

Emacs

Nano because It happens to be what I learned first and I don’t get enough of a chance to use my computer anymore to even try anything else

When I first started using Linux I used Kate, I know, I know, not command line, but I didn’t needed a command line editor for my own computer. Eventually I started using nano for quick edits and that became my default CLI editor for a while. I don’t remember what I used as an IDE back then, but maybe it was Eclipse, although I think it was mostly just Kate.

Eventually I decided to learn either VI or Emacs, and a friend who used Emacs pushed me to that side. I ended up switching everything to emacs, CLI, IDE, I even learnt org-mode and had tables and presentations in it.

Eventually my pinky started to hurt too much, so I switched to Pycharm for python, and kept emacs for C++, text edits and org-mode. I ended up slowly switching emacs everywhere and reverted to nano.

Some years back I decided to properly learn vim. I have been using nvim for a few years, and while it’s not the everything tool that emacs was for me, it’s still pretty darn useful. I also haven’t become a movement ninja and oftentimes I go wwwwww to get where I want to be. But still, there are some very nice shortcuts that I use a lot like Change Inside/Around or Delete X lines. Macros are cool, and sometimes feel magical, but other times they don’t work like I expected and I can’t figure out why. I don’t see myself changing to something else, the ubiquity of vim shortcuts in other programs makes it very convenient when I have to use something else.

My first experience with *nix was a professor leading me into a server room though two biometric locks and setting up the config files for a compute cluster faster than I would have been able to open the files.

He was using Vim, and though it took me a while to learn, the sheer speed with which he was able to get us out of that unbelievably noisy server room sold me for life.

Well, I use vim for text edits and nvim+extensions for an IDE. As close to a vim purist as is reasonable. But frankly, it’s the first one you learn to use well.

Vi