Which text editor do you use?
The reasons us elders use VI is because on a new installation, it was the only thing available until:
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You are lucky enough to find a compiled version of PINE/PICO, or
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You have the compiler installed, and can get the source code and build it yourself.
For some reason, some elitists decided that if you don’t know that, then you are a failure. But honestly, when modern distros started coming out with WYSIWYG-type editors, it was a relief, even though I reverted to VI/VIM because of muscle-memory, I do not push it on new users. It’s the same argument people make for driving manual vs automatic, sure it’s useful, but when was the last time you even saw a manual car? (At least in North America).
You want to live dangerously, go ahead and put NetBSD with just the basics and leave the rest of us who want to do something useful alone.
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Nano in the CLI, kate in the GUI
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.
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
Noobs get hit with friendly fire.
dd or GTFO.
head n-1 > tmp && echo “line replacement” >> tmp && tail -n+1 >> tml && mv tmp orig
I’m using vscode.
Only Fresh
kate when I am using GUI and vim when I am using CLI.
I think it comes with a text editor already built in. I don’t need a text editor though.
It’s worse than the picture depicts. It’s not just the lovers, the elitists and the evangelists, it’s the sheer range of choice too, beyond the loudest.
i miss notepad plus plus, that’s pretty much the only thing i wish i still had from before linux though.
You and I both. I have nostalgia from years of using it in grad school for R. I found Kate is pretty close, but NPP runs fine in Bottles.
Gedit
I just found that notepadqq is no longer maintained. :(
Gedit, mousepad, geany or kate may help you forget Notepad++, which is truly great software.
I want whatever is closest to Notepad++. Honestly, KDE already comes with that built in.
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.
