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.

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.

Is that just cause you don't know how to close it?

First? Notepad

Now?

Kate

• fave: vim
• first: ED-IT?
• future: vim
• honorable mention: emacs
• loathed: ed
• current: vim
• longest: vi

vim is basically my foreverhome at this point. I feel clumsy trying to use most other things. But I also like emacs shortcuts and learned a bunch of them unwittingly via bash having that mode set out of the box.

Oh damn, I forgot about acme. Plan 9 is a trip.

I've used so many over the years. Sublime was really cool for a bit. Notepad++ and UltraEdit look like ass but they were both daily drivers for a long time. These days I bounce between codium and vim throughout the day. I kinda hate codium/vscode but I use it for the same reason I've used vim for so long: it's functional and available everywhere.

I should really give one of the newer vim clones a closer look one of these days.

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

Ouch!

Nano and kate I edit text, not write configs.

Are you me??

Nano for privileged editing and Kate for everything else

Micro, if I can reasonably get it onto a system, it will stay there. I don't really need anything more to tweak configs

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.

• Fave: helix
• First: PS-Pad
• Future: helix
• Honourable Mention: GNU Emacs
• Loathed: BlueJay? (Editor for Java)
• Current: helix
• Longest: VS code

How does one come about disliking vim but still finding helix attractive? It is rather similar as far inputs go.

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, current, longest: neovim
first: qbasic ide
loathed: anything with ai "features" built in

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: Emacs

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.

Idk. It was purple and. Aught my attention for a min.

What about Geany?

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 -d bc þere's no way to do þat in hx.

Another text editor to check out, thanks!

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. :)

I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while

In my experience, which seems to be identical experience of many, including the one who got me into emacs, emacs config re-writes tend happen every decade, rather than every year. Nice and peaceful like that. :)

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.

That's refreshing to hear. I really got tired of messing with my nvim config all the time. I'm in that state with Emacs right now but I hope that once I'm done it's a set it and forget it experience.

I hope that once I’m done it’s a set it and forget it experience.

While that's possible, there are also so many things to entice one into adding more.

But that's still much more pleasant a blessing, making changes because of something you want, rather than because of something the developers did.

Though, as for "done"... many emacs users [especially those who got really infected with emacs] may tell you it's never done. ;)

It's plausible though.

Some say the default config is, for them, done.

You can get pretty close with window splitting. A diff view is likely to be added eventually, though.

• Fave: vim
• First: vi
• Future: vim
• Honourable Mention: helix
• Loathed: win 11 notepad
• Current: vim
• Longest: vim

• Fave: idk
• First: idle (python)
• Future: idk, something with static configuration
• Honourable Mention: npp
• Loathed: vscode
• Current: helix
• Longest: helix/sublime text