Which text editor do you use?

Kate

As a new Linux user who spends as little time editing config files as I can manage, I'm fine with nano.

Came here to say kate! I tried a bunch of them before but kate is nice :3. And then I have nano for the terminal

Kwrite

gram

I was too untilI switched to opensuse aeon and default is vim instead of nano. I just switched. I don't care. Both are not perfect - i won' create yet another fork just because i want to do it differently. I don't get why vim has so few shortcuts.

I use Micro in the terminal - it offers good desktop integration with keys similar to DEs like ctrl+v and ctrl+c, rather than being terminal centred (e.g. Ctrl+C is usually the standard interrupt/abort key in the terminal). So it's nice if you're mainly in a desktop but pop in to a terminal occasionally and have the DE muscle memory.

I use Kate outside the terminal.

But honestly, which text editor you use depends on what you use it for and how often. Vim is very powerful and allows very fast use & productivity if you learn it properly and probably very useful if you spend a lot of time in the terminal or TTY, but Nano is more straight forward and easy for a lot of basic terminal based work.

when I use kde I prefer to use this edit too

Vim or Zed

Me no love nano, me brain only can use nano.

E macs scary. vim no let me leave :(

I don’t get why vim has so few shortcuts.

gnome text editor

Let the editor holy wars (re)start!

Vim is the one true editor, and the heretics who claim otherwise shall be driven forth and sent to re-education linux boot camps to learn the true ways.

pico!

But nano will do ;)

mcedit😎

Micro >

VS Code gang

Someone's gotta do it. I'm leaving this comment so it's not me.

I install micro. I intend to use micro. My fingers type nano anyways. Every time.

The only sad thing about Kate? No terminal version of this beauty.

nano lovers? Is there such thing? Nano was the one I used until I learned how to do basics on vim, nano is just the more intuitive/easiest way to just edit a file and it's enough most of the time

Commit heresy with evil-mode Emacs.

ed is the standard editor

Comment could have been a :q!

vim, because that's how my father taught me, and how his father's father taught him.

Choose vim! The generational trauma of file editors!

This is the dao

Time for an alias!

It has an extremely consistent user interface and error reporting!

Micro or even better is Fresh. Make use of the modern terminal features for mouse interaction, text highlighting, and standard shortcuts.

Micro is pretty good

If you haven't, I highly recommend checking out Fresh, it's like micro with even more standard text editor features.

You never hear about Nice Editor but I'd like to submit it for consideration. It's no IDE, but I like it better than nano.

Or VSCodium if you value free and open source software.

nano lovers 😂

I'd look into Fresh if you want to really have the whole gui-style text editor experience inside a TUI application.

Ok hear me out: Microsoft Edit

Notepad++ in a Windows XP VM

I'm too old to keep lying that I don't like nano..

neovim

I'm a emacs guy, but nano should be the only one installed by default.
The default editor should tell you how to exit!

Nano for TUI and Pulsar for GUI.

I really don't care what you use but I highly recommend picking something extensible or fully featured. No need to cut yourself off of valuable tools.

(Also I use Neovim BTW)

Use whatever you want. I use nano, why? Because all I need it for is to do some simple config edits in the terminal emulator and it does all I need while keeping it simple.

JOVE all the way!

None of them. I need a texteditor, not an unusable wannabe miracle machine for which you need documentation and a diploma just to exit it.

My requirements for a text editor:

• it displays 'A' when I press the 'A' key
• doesn't require more than 1 minute of learning to use it

Bonus points if it comes pre installed.

I was playing around with Free BSD I think and the default was Vi. I was just like "yeah, no" and gave up. I didn't have wi-fi working so I couldn't install anything else.

Came here just for this comment

This is kinda irrelevant for a new user, but vi/vim is available literally everywhere. If you need to shh onto another machine and edit some files, it's the only editor you can reliably expect to exist.

nano and kate I edit text not books of configs.