Which text editor do you use?
I use
- sublime-text when not confined to a terminal
- nano for example with git’s CLI
- vi/vim when the others are not available.
My distro came with Nano, so here I am
When I uninstalled Windows and switched to Linux (CachyOS (which is Arch BTW)) I also took the time to free myself from VScode to completely escape Microsoft’s fuckery.
I learned how to use Neovim. I’ve got a configuration that I really like and I took care to make it portable enough that I can just copy over the init.lua file to set everything up on a different computer.
However this is only earned through weeks of Lua hell. You are effectively building your own editor from almost the ground up. I only recommend Neovim if you want the first medium scale project you work on to be Neovim itself.
Micro.
I hate modal keybindings (Vim, Nano and Emacs, all alike; though the Object-Verb paradigm looks promising for me, but until now, nothing’s better than quasimodal CUA/spring-loaded CUA).
Also Kate and KWrite.
Noobs get hit with friendly fire.
Nano because I’m too lazy to learn vim or emacs. I want something that works and not something that operates like cheat codes in old video games.
dd or GTFO.
i miss notepad plus plus, that’s pretty much the only thing i wish i still had from before linux though.
Gedit, mousepad, geany or kate may help you forget Notepad++, which is truly great software.
Gedit
Gram with a modifed helix
I think it comes with a text editor already built in. I don’t need a text editor though.
kate when I am using GUI and vim when I am using CLI.
I want whatever is closest to Notepad++. Honestly, KDE already comes with that built in.
hx
I use nano for simple text edits, anything more and I use sublime, or code.
Used to develop c++ in emacs though, never got the benefit of VIM, super hard to use.
Linux has made great strides to being approachable for new users. The agony of choice for so many things (distro, editor, nearly any tool family with more than one option) and the factionalism around the options is probably one of the few big obstacles left.
I don’t have a solution for the factionalism. I’d put forth a suggestion for a simple “standard” choice (Kate/gedit for GUI and nano for CLI; I personally use vim, but I think nano is more approachable) but I’m sure someone will disagree and we’re back to square one.
