Which text editor do you use?
Who loves nano??
Kate and micro
Emacs with Vim’s modal editing.
I don’t understand the issue. I’ve been using Linux less than a year but I started with a KDE desktop so it came with Kate, Kwrite, and Nano. I’ve literally never needed anything else.
I’ve tried out a couple IDEs like Codium and Geany, but I don’t see what they offer that Kate doesn’t.
I’ve also at least opened Emacs but I didn’t get much further than that.
I use Nano in the terminal when I’m editing config files because I read somewhere that it’s safer.
I installed Neovim and Micro but I haven’t explored those at all yet. I don’t have any problems with Nano.
I tried Pluma but I really only use it for dumping lists.
For the most part I use Kate, but for simpler notes I use Kwrite just to keep them in separate spots on my launcher.
I don’t see why this is such an issue though.
Who uses nano?
Nothing wrong with Kate. I know how to use Nano because it’s an essential skill for when your machine boots into emergency mode, but aside from that editing text from the terminal is lunacy.
Welcome to Team Kate. There are dozens of us!
My colon quit.
Can I introduce you to the miracles of fresh? https://getfresh.dev/
I liked Sublime enough to pay for it. It has become my primary text editor at home.
I also like Atom/Pulsar, but it takes a but too long to open for my use case.
Obsidian isn’t exactly a text editor, but it fits many of the use cases. It may be closed source, but all the files are accessible and usable if the app ever disappears.
I want to use vim more, but I’m lazy, and the learning curve keeps putting me off. I might get there eventually.
Nano is ol’ reliable. When everything else failed, Nano was still there for me and worked perfectly.
Best choice: use whatever comes pre-installed.
I learned vim (technically vi) because it was the only editor available on these tiny liveusbs I would use for work. It was literally my only option. Once I got used to the motions, using any text editor without vim motions felt unusable to me.
Vim it is.
yeah, it’s all true, lol.
it’s emacs, though.
vi because it’s everywhere, even on servers where packages can’t be downloaded or shouldn’t be installed.
This is my reply every time someone suggests nvim. Is it on the servers I use but I’m not an admin for? No? Then it doesn’t sound like a great option.
My favourite editor is the first one I find that’s installed
Why would you need a text editor when you can just do
cat > file?smh
This command will literally overwrite the file that you do whenever you try to edit it. You need two >> to append at the end of a file, but it’s super-duper hard to put text in the middle of a file from the terminal. That is why people use editors, for sure. Now that I think about it, there probably is some psychopath who uses the actual command line as an editor. They’re probably more elitist than Vim users lol.
Sounds like a skill issue tbh
Excuse me, but real programmers use butterflies.
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Poor souls of those that haven’t found the way of the Gnu.
May the Gnu have mercy of your lost ways and show you the light
M-x show-light RETMay the macros never lack in your life,
May your parentheses be balanced,
And may your init.el pass with no fails.Emen
I constantly switch between Nixvim, DOOM Emacs, helix, and NVChad. I can never settle on one editor for long. I don’t know why.
