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: notepad.exe
Future: vim
Honorable mention: vi
Loathed: Everything but (neo)?vim?
Current: vim
Longest: vim

I'm a typewriter guy.

I love my olivetti Linea90 as a work horse, for leisure typing it is either an olivetti Lettera DL or a Princess 300.

• Fave: GNU Emacs
• First: MS DOS Edit
• Future: GNU Emacs
• Honorable Mention: Jed and Zile
• Loathed: Visual Code
• Current: GNU Emacs
• Longest: GNU Emacs

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.

I'm guessing it's a bit difficult to edit config files on it? 🤭

In Linux I use code for coding, and nano for everything else

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)

• Fave: GNU nano
• First: notepad.exe (on Windows XP)
• Future: GNU Emacs
• Honourable Mention: Xed
• Loathed: vi (the original one, not the far superior Vim)
• Current: GNU nano
• Longest: Micro

not really, llms have become quite good at extracting text from scans. /s

I'd make my own reply but this person speaks for me.

Because of the missing characters

Nano

find modules/nixvim/ -name "*.nix" -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l
3890

I'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>#nvim on 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. .go or .python to that command.)

(Sorry my comments tend to go off-topic)

Least liked: any that feel the need to advertise themselves on social media

• Fave: Helix
• First: VSCode
• Future: idk
• Honorable Mention: Zed
• Loathed: Visual Studio
• Current: Helix
• Longest: Helix

for GUI I use sublime and for terminal I use nano

its a peaceful life

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:nocaps

Save you, it can. ;)

Though, then there's also evil-mode, and spacemacs and doomemacs, which I think both have evil-mode on by default.

:D Nice additional categories.

My "least liked" is also my "will never use".

Never had any forced on me.

Immolo? Is that you?

• Neovim for terminal
• Sublime for GUI
• Word for when i’m feeling masochistic (jk)
• Notepad++ was first

My fave comment. Handy.

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.

Fave: micro
First: nano
Future: eMacs?
Honorable mention: helix
Loathed: vim/neovim
Current: micro
Longest: micro

I'm a micro fanboy.

had an itch, and when the whim took inspiration, scratched it.

Fave: vim
First: vim
Future: vim
Honorable mention: vim
Loathed: anything other than vim
Current: vim
Longest: believe it or not, vim

ed is the one, true, standard text editor.

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 🙃🙃

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)

I considered whimsically including ed or butterflies, maybe as honourable mention, or as wish to use in the future. [/xkcd378]

Fave: I don't really do favourites, but I tend to reach for nano because it's usually installed and I prefer it to the vi family.

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 micro but haven't touched it yet. Maybe one day I'll get around to that. Or an IDE. So probably nano.

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 / edlin

Current: Let's go with nano again, but I do lot more typing on command lines and in browser text boxes, like this one.

Longest: If pico counts as proto-nano, then definitely nano. Been using that since the '90s.

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!

Fave: Kate

First: GNOME Text Editor

Future: Kate

Honourable Mention: Notepadqq used it for a after when I first switched from Windows where I used Notepad++

Least Liked: Vim

Current: Kate

Most used: Kate

For anything CLI related I use Micro.

👋

I wish Gnome Builder was better. Why is there not a gtk IDE that can use any lsp? Also why does VS Code have to have such awful UI and UX?

What made you switch from Notepadqq to Kate? I'm currently still stuck on my Notepad++ bias too.

I reinstalled my system at somepoint and just decided to used Kate since I didn't have NPQQ installed.

It ended up having everything I needed from NPQQ.

There are dozens of us!

It's such a shame np++ doesn't exist on linux 😔

gedit and kate are better alternatives honestly. and with their security practices i would rather be without.

sudo apt install kate it is then!

• Favorite: Helix
• Future: Helix
• Current: Helix
• Loathed: Anything with JavaScript, a mandated - - GUI, or non-modal keybinds
• First: Vim
• Longest: Helix
• Honorable mention: Kakoune

I'm honestly torn between Nvim and Emacs right now. I'm a long time vim user and been on Nvim for 10+ years. The rate at which they change config methods kinda drives me nuts. The change from vimscript to lua, and then a new mixup of lua to another syntax of lua, NEED TO CHANGE THE LUA!!!!!! It's too much. I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while because the plugin ecosystem moves lightning fast. Now most of the time I feel like I'm using a half baked config solution even on a new from scratch setup.

Emacs feels like a breath of fresh air. I'm still working out the kinks but it feels like it just works when I tell it to do something. I'm not using evil mode. I dove head first into vanilla and it's been really nice. ELisp is wild. I have no fucking clue what I'm doing with it, but it all seems to be working. The fact that it took me 3 days to get my Emacs setup to where I am with Nvim and beyond was a great start to the switch. I'm really enjoying Emacs and there's definitely a past version of me going 'What the fuck' right now.

Interesting, what are their bad security practices?

I have kate but it's way behind notepad++, IMO! Will check out gedit, thanks.

That's fun! I'm currently comming from Neovim to see if Emacs is for me. I've only really used Neovim for half a year and Emacs for less than a week so who knows? I've actually only been sent on this rollercoaster ride by JetBrains trying to sneak AI training data collection into IntelliJ almost a year ago, eventually being annoyed by how clanky Eclipse is. Am I annoyed by Neovim? No, not at all, I just want to see if I like Emacs even better.

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!

Fave is (Doom) Emacs, even though I haven't used it in a while. It was fun and mostly painless to customize it a tad with no prior Lisp experience. Things like Org Mode and Org Babel let me write a short story around my code blocks if I needed one to remember concepts, purposes, etc in a language I was tinkering with. They could execute in-document or I could tangle them to where they belonged. That just seemed brilliant to me. It being essentially an eLisp interpreter at its core, with the editor functionality and everything else built on top, it was neat being able to just pop open an interpreter window or tab and use what I learned for quick calculations or whatever. Previously I'd open a new terminal or tmux pane and use Python for that purpose. And currently mostly Bash and CLI utils over Python.

Pretty sure my first was EDIT.COM on MS-DOS but I would've been a single-digit age at the time and mostly clueless so I say notepad.exe instead. The window in which I used DOS was very short before the family computer started running Win 3.1. Then 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista... every version except 2000 and 8. We had 8 long enough to back up our data and revert to 7

Future, I'll probably keep trucking with nvim.

Honorable mention, gedit. My first GUI editor on Linux desktop before I leaned heavy into CLI applications.

Loathed, VSCode. I'm not a dev so it was just too much. A Vim plugin made it usable for editing, and I liked how easy plugins were to find/install, but I'm not a dev and full IDEs are wasted on me. Same reason I finally stopped trying to turn nvim into one and minimized my plugins for it.

Current is nvim. I like modal editing and its particular keybinds. I like regex search and find/replace. Multiline editing, motions, and macros defined on the fly. I bet I haven't read 2% of the built-in documentation and know it already does more than I'd ever need right out of the box. For the same reason I still often find neat things I didn't know about it and try to commit to memory for my future editing.

Longest is n/vim. That probably won't ever change for the same reasons above.