Which text editor do you use?

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      It has a few quirks I utterly despise :(

      Like it cannot print invisible characters. Had a script create some broken folders with a BOM character at the beginning. I couldn’t access the files in any way except that they appeared in dolphin and ls. Had to delete them via the fucking inode.

      I was forced to use VSCode (an open source fork at least) to find out what the fuck was wrong with the input file the script used to generate the folder name.

      • EnsignWashout@startrek.website
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        2 months ago

        Like it cannot print invisible characters.

        I was looking at an option to display invisible characters in Kate like last week. So it got better, I guess.

        • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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          2 months ago

          Only non-printable spaces from what I can tell.

          The BOM character does not fall into this category and is still invisible. Try pasting it into Kate. It’s between those arrows:

          ---><---
    • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      Kate is by far the best GUI text editor I ever used. And unless it’s a short config file and I use nano, I want GUI. It’s not the 80s anymore!

  • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I use Micro in the terminal - it offers good desktop integration with keys similar to DEs like ctrl+v and ctrl+c, rather than being terminal centred (e.g. Ctrl+C is usually the standard interrupt/abort key in the terminal). So it’s nice if you’re mainly in a desktop but pop in to a terminal occasionally and have the DE muscle memory.

    I use Kate outside the terminal.

    But honestly, which text editor you use depends on what you use it for and how often. Vim is very powerful and allows very fast use & productivity if you learn it properly and probably very useful if you spend a lot of time in the terminal or TTY, but Nano is more straight forward and easy for a lot of basic terminal based work.

    • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve been using micro as well recently. But other than that if I’m on a remote server I’ll use whatever it has available, starting with nano then vi/vim.

    • j3tt@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The so-called desktop integration is what I disable in vim. I want to have the terminal in control and use select text to copy instead of entering visual mode. When I want visual mode, I use my keyboard. (:

  • plateee@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    vim, because that’s how my father taught me, and how his father’s father taught him.

    Choose vim! The generational trauma of file editors!

    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website
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      2 months ago

      haha!

      Sometimes I feel like my side of the holy war isn’t engaging in completely good faith.

      I might switch sides to emacs if my fingers were long enough to reach the key combinations.

      Maybe I’ll go try it, anyway!

      …

      What was the command to exit vi, again…?

    • printerhell@lemmy.today
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      2 months ago

      Notepad++ is the one thing i really miss on linux. I use it daily for work and i just haven’t found an equivalent on linux.

        • printerhell@lemmy.today
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          2 months ago

          No doubt about it. Most editors have the same capabilities or better. It’s just when you use something for 40+ hours a week you know it inside and out.

          • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I’ve recently switched to writing my notes in markdown in a code editor, since I already have one open most of the time. vsCode for work (I do a lot of PowerShell), vsCodium at home, although I’m sure there’s better options.

            My one gripe with Notepad++ is that I haven’t found any easy way to do dark mode with it. You can make the window “chrome” dark mode, and you can make general text background black and text white, but then that screws up the language specific and file diff themes/coloring.

            There’s probably a collection of importable settings for that somewhere online though.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      2 months ago

      Some of us have been around long enough to have used pine as our main e-mail client, thus we learned to love pico and now we love nano.

      Damn kids these days. Get off my lawn.

      • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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        2 months ago

        I remember using pine on some occasions but I mostly used mutt which was using $EDITOR to write emails. Which for me was vi.

        I can’t imagine anyone doing serious work using nano but it’s totally possible the problem is with my imagination, not nano itself.