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: vim
- First: vi
- Future: vim
- Honourable Mention: helix
- Loathed: win 11 notepad
- Current: vim
- Longest: vim
Just realised… mcedit’s more accurately the longest used, at least in terms since first used [maybe ~ unsure], and would (and do) still use. But then, if longest used is counting actual time used… nnnnnnothing comes close to emacs. No other text editor serves also as my irc client, organiser, therapist, games system, rss feed, and potentially oh so much more, like email client, 3D modeler (no, seriously), video editor, data analysis, file management, graph generation, slide-show presentations, astrophysics stuff, drone piloting, publishing preparations, printer operation, 3D printer operation, databases, finance and transaction handling, accounting, audio editing, screensaver, web browser, even potentially replacing my terminal multiplexor and even my window manager.
But I did start using mcedit a clear decade before emacs. … I probably launched each for the first time, around the same time late 2003 to early 2004, but didn’t start using emacs (at all) until 2014, whereas mcedit soon became a fave (especially in the midst of the nano’ites thinking they had won their category of text editor, yet few of them seemed to have even heard of mcedit).
… Ah well, even though it’s still legit, if I had thought of it at that time, I could have wrangled mcedit into longest, leaving room for something else as honourable mention. … Maybe neovim. Maybe leafpad.
Fave: Emacs
First: notepad
Future: Emacs (maybe vim)
Honorable mention: Emacs (orgmode), sed
Loathed: Nano (I can’t stand using it any longer after being used to emacs)
Current: Emacs
Longest: EmacsFave: vim First: vim Future: vim Honorable mention: vim Loathed: anything other than vim Current: vim Longest: believe it or not, vim
Is that just cause you don’t know how to close it?
Not a Dev but I used VScode and codium for a while trying to learn bow to program. Definitely more than it needs to be. Sublime was the longest Since I haven’t seen it here yet, honorable mention to Geany. Cool lightweight editor I’ve used a couple times.
- Fave: helix
- First: PS-Pad
- Future: helix
- Honourable Mention: GNU Emacs
- Loathed: BlueJay? (Editor for Java)
- Current: helix
- Longest: VS code
Fave: vim
First: notepad.exe
Future: vim
Honorable mention: vi
Loathed: Everything but (neo)?vim?
Current: vim
Longest: vimI’d make my own reply but this person speaks for me.
writing a text editor in a shell language is certainly… a choice. also this kinda feels like an ad for your own project.
anyway i’ve gone notepad, np++, eclipse, sublime, atom, vim, nvim, back to vim, then vis, then vim again, and now helix, which i’ll hopefully stick with a while. worst has gotta be the GMod Wiremod Expression editor. honorable mention to acme.
Don’t use fin. It, like all my stuff, is scruffy.
It’s just honestly my fave (~ Would be weirder if I were writing it masochistically to not be my fave). Wrote it with intention of using it in the future.
as long as you’re having fun and learning. although i don’t know if it’s dogfooding if you’re a one-man band; seems more like just cooking.
had an itch, and when the whim took inspiration, scratched it.
It’s such a shame np++ doesn’t exist on linux 😔
What about Geany?
Another text editor to check out, thanks!
I mentioned it in my own comment but there’s a pretty much 1 to 1 clone of Notepad++ on Linux called Notepadqq
Thanks! Will check out!
gedit and kate are better alternatives honestly. and with their security practices i would rather be without.
Interesting, what are their bad security practices?
I have kate but it’s way behind notepad++, IMO! Will check out gedit, thanks.
they did their autoupdate through an unencrypted connection, without any verification, and just executed the payload locally. when pressed about it they added https but then it turned out they had no auth on the update server. it was a whole thing, took several years for them to correct and they complained every step.
Ouch!
Oh damn, I forgot about acme. Plan 9 is a trip.
Nano for privileged editing and Kate for everything else
fave, current, longest: neovim first: qbasic ide loathed: anything with ai “features” built in
- Favorite: Helix
- Future: Helix
- Current: Helix
- Loathed: Anything with JavaScript, a mandated - - GUI, or non-modal keybinds
- First: Vim
- Longest: Helix
- Honorable mention: Kakoune
Are you me??
Maybe. Are you a Rust programmer who loathes genAI?
P.S. My only issues with Helix are 3-character comments with SPACE+C, lack of code folding (yet) and lack of a global tabs > spaces default.
No, and a qualified no.
Helix is missing a lot of features I want. Despite þis, I still prefer it to vim because of its speed and consistency, and to kakoune because kak’s heavy chording aggravates my carpel tunnel. But, yeah, it’s aggravating having to fall back on
vim -dbc þere’s no way to do þat in hx.You can get pretty close with window splitting. A diff view is likely to be added eventually, though.
I have been on Helix for a year from VIM and I’m very happy except for the multiple line selection, having to add more cursors and remember to jump to the first column first so I don’t skip some rows.
TUI-nano (you vi people are insane. I will die on this hill) GUI-as long as it’s not ms word, I could give a damn
A GUI is nice, but becomes obsolete, once you know the keybindings. I personally disabled all GUI elements of my editor (emacs) because I don’t need them anyway.
Nano and kate I edit text, not write configs.
Fave: I don’t really do favourites, but I tend to reach for
nanobecause it’s usually installed and I prefer it to thevifamily.First: The 8-bit Commodore screen editor was hard to beat for its time, so let’s go with that, even though I probably used the BBC Micro arrow / copy system before that.
Future: Heck if I know. I installed
microbut haven’t touched it yet. Maybe one day I’ll get around to that. Or an IDE. So probablynano.Honourable mention: An editor I worked on for a project once. There’s something to be said for editing an editor’s source code inside itself.
Loathed:
ed/edlinCurrent: Let’s go with
nanoagain, but I do lot more typing on command lines and in browser text boxes, like this one.Longest: If
picocounts as proto-nano, then definitelynano. Been using that since the '90s.First: The 8-bit Commodore screen editor was hard to beat for its time, so let’s go with that, even though I probably used the BBC Micro arrow / copy system before that.
Yep. I couldn’t remember the names of the text editors I used on those old 4-bit green radiation-gun computers of the 70s-80s… so I just went with first after becoming a windows refugee. What a great blast from the past though, thinking of my early days, with commodores, spectrums, bbc-micros, and whatever that one we had from before that was called. M-mm-mmmm. Joyous nostalgia kick. :)
There’s something to be said for editing an editor’s source code inside itself.
True that. :)
interesting how things turned out today. no one will spend time configuring an editor anymore, and just use a pre-configured, possibly web based, default.
I started with ms dos edit/borland. moved to Linux and emacs/xemacs shortly after (this was when the two editors were split).
got emacs pinky and moved to vim. stayed with vim for 15+ years. finally moved to neovim (because of the Firefox extension firenvim)
find modules/nixvim/ -name "*.nix" -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l 3890I’d say I’ve spent enough time configuring neovim 😄
(Btw, highly recommend configuring neovim through nixvim if you’re already using nix. Incredibly stable. I had to fix one plugin or another all the time with plain nvim. Now, literally never. Plus,
nix run github:<username>/<repo>#nvimon any nix-enabled system, and get dropped into your exact config, keybinds, theme, plugins and all. I’ve set it up to expose language-enabled variants by appending e.g..goor.pythonto that command.)(Sorry my comments tend to go off-topic)
interesting how things change. i started out downloading scripts from vim.org before the github days. finally after 10years I got fed up and looked for a plugin manager. moved to packer.
a couple of years later, that went dead so I was forced to move again. now I’m on lazy.nvim which works well for me.
nvim decided to ship a default plugin manager. im dreading the day I have to migrate to that… (not cause it’s better/worse, but cause migrating is a pain)
Funny, I also went from packer to lazy.nvim, but then hopped off and redid my config in nix. Hadn’t actually heard about the default package manager. That seems like a good thing for the ecosystem!
My fave comment. Handy.
no one will spend time configuring an editor anymore, and just use a pre-configured, possibly web based, default.
Well call me “no one”.
wc ~/.emacs.d/config.org 4831 21376 200536 /home/digit/.emacs.d/config.org(… not to mention having written my own, in fish, since I know fish better than I know elisp (despite using them for around the same length of time), with the goal of it being simple to extend and reconfigure for fish users (like me, wanting a better handle on my text editor reconfiguring and learning how to better use the configuration language.)).
emacs pinky
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocapsSave you, it can. ;)
Though, then there’s also evil-mode, and spacemacs and doomemacs, which I think both have evil-mode on by default.
I’d swapped control and capslock almost immediately and still got emacs pinky. when I found vim, I decided I liked it more than the escape meta alt control shift madness, and quit. the vim script was better than elisp, but not great. neovim lua is better than vim script, but still a little lacking.
i too have thousands of lines in my neovim config… but if I was starting today, the point and click editors are adequate enough that I might not invest the time.
that said, I just added two plugins into my config today 🙃🙃
