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 @misty@lemmy.zip would make a text editor one. So I just made my own. :)
Fave is (Doom) Emacs, even though I haven’t used it in a while. It was fun and mostly painless to customize it a tad with no prior Lisp experience. Things like Org Mode and Org Babel let me write a short story around my code blocks if I needed one to remember concepts, purposes, etc in a language I was tinkering with. They could execute in-document or I could tangle them to where they belonged. That just seemed brilliant to me. It being essentially an eLisp interpreter at its core, with the editor functionality and everything else built on top, it was neat being able to just pop open an interpreter window or tab and use what I learned for quick calculations or whatever. Previously I’d open a new terminal or tmux pane and use Python for that purpose. And currently mostly Bash and CLI utils over Python.
Pretty sure my first was EDIT.COM on MS-DOS but I would’ve been a single-digit age at the time and mostly clueless so I say notepad.exe instead. The window in which I used DOS was very short before the family computer started running Win 3.1. Then 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista… every version except 2000 and 8. We had 8 long enough to back up our data and revert to 7
Future, I’ll probably keep trucking with nvim.
Honorable mention, gedit. My first GUI editor on Linux desktop before I leaned heavy into CLI applications.
Loathed, VSCode. I’m not a dev so it was just too much. A Vim plugin made it usable for editing, and I liked how easy plugins were to find/install, but I’m not a dev and full IDEs are wasted on me. Same reason I finally stopped trying to turn nvim into one and minimized my plugins for it.
Current is nvim. I like modal editing and its particular keybinds. I like regex search and find/replace. Multiline editing, motions, and macros defined on the fly. I bet I haven’t read 2% of the built-in documentation and know it already does more than I’d ever need right out of the box. For the same reason I still often find neat things I didn’t know about it and try to commit to memory for my future editing.
Longest is n/vim. That probably won’t ever change for the same reasons above.