Which text editor do you use?
You guys edit text?
First choice: use a normal damn GUI text editor
Second choice: Nano. It’s simple and comprehensible, and a best CLI choice for newbies. You can then turn to vim, emacs, or whatever, but don’t make your life harder from the get-go
People suggesting to start with Vim are probably the same ones pushing for Arch as a first distro. C’mon.
use a normal damn GUI text editor
The right choice as long as you don’t want to edit code/config files. Trust me, writing code inside libre office is not fun.
Was gonna write that only one true text editor exists. But okay, you are right, of course
That’s how you breed scrubs who can’t M-x-butterfly. I say give them a distro that boots into vi and starts a background process that block internet access around them. If they manage to quit vi and kill the daemon, they’re ready for Linux.
Wait until you get cornered by elite Helix enjoyers
I use Vim. I am not a power user by any stretch but it’s what I use. I know like three shortcuts, which is enough to make me marginally faster in vim than nano. I don’t really feel much desire to learn a terminal editor and be super good with it. There are other things I’m more interested in spending my time on if I feel motivated to learn.
Why is this post not mentioning the most important editor of all time? Why is this post deliberately missing out the standard text editor ed, that wastes no system resource on unnecessary output like help messages or a text buffer. If you are coming to Linux you should really start looking into learning ed, since, well it is the standard Texteditor overall.
I just use the inbuilt text editor in linux mint.
Or a full fledged IDE when I edit code.
And then there’s me on Geany…
Commandline? Nano (or Pico or whatever) if it exists. Else vim/vi. I originally used emacs back in the day. However, for anything else, I’m using the closest thing to notepad++ I can find at the time.
I use Neovim with this config https://github.com/Willie169/nvim-config
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I am no coder, so I only ever need to modify configs or write down my thoughts. nano for configs, Standard Notes for thoughts
Emacs with Vim’s modal editing.
Kate and micro
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.
You usually don’t take the time to learn vim or Emacs just to write some notes. The real value of such powerful and highly customisable text editors only shows itself when you are editing lots and lots of text on a regular basis (e.g. codimg, writing blogs or any other form of writing)
The advantage vim and emacs have is, that they have keybindings for about everything you could ever want. This has the advantage, that once you know how to use them, your working speed massively increases, but it takes quite some time to learn the keybindings. Another advantage and disadvantage of (neo) vim and emacs is, that both are being modified by config files. This comes at the advantage of being able to modify about everything about your editor, but means that sometimes it can be quite hard to implement a specific behaviour. The next advantage is, that your configuration becomes easily portable and extensible. Implementing a specific behaviour often only requires copy pasting a 15 year old stackoverflow post and if you want to move to a new device, you just have to grab your config files and are good to go.
Emacs also has orgmode directly integrated into it, which can be used to write text and format it (similar to Markdown, but much more powerful) and even export it to other formats like HTML or LaTeX. As you might expect, orgmode also has its own keybindings. This means, that you can write your documents inside emacs [orgmode], use all the powerful text formatting tools and keybindings and then share your work in a nicely formatted and portable way.
Who loves nano??
me
