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    Just for fun and discovery.

    Same as for distros and DE/WM.

    Share your own, as an image, or just a written list. :)

    Mine:

    ;) I didn't want to wait and see if @misty@lemmy.zip would make a text editor one. So I just made my own. :)

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    [–] expr@programming.dev 3 points 1 hour ago

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

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

    I'm a micro fanboy.

    [–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 40 minutes ago

    ed is the one, true, standard text editor.

    [–] Cheebus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
    • Neovim for terminal
    • Sublime for GUI
    • Word for when i’m feeling masochistic (jk)
    • Notepad++ was first
    [–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

    for GUI I use sublime and for terminal I use nano

    its a peaceful life

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 hour ago

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

    [–] FishFace@piefed.social 3 points 2 hours ago

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

    [–] nil@piefed.ca 2 points 2 hours ago
    • Fave: Helix
    • First: VSCode
    • Future: idk
    • Honorable Mention: Zed
    • Loathed: Visual Studio
    • Current: Helix
    • Longest: Helix
    [–] 30p87@feddit.org 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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

    [–] grte@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 hours ago

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

    [–] lemonhead2@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    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)

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 hour ago

    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 extent 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.

    [–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
    find modules/nixvim/ -name "*.nix" -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l
    3890
    

    I'd say I've spent enough time configuring neovim πŸ˜„

    (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)

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 hour ago

    My fave comment. Handy.

    [–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] remilia@lemmy.cyberia9.org 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

    [–] drre@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago

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

    [–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    Because of the missing characters

    [–] poinck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)
    • fav: vim
    • first: idk
    • future: vim
    • honorable mention: gnome-builder
    • forced upon me: vscode, Eclipse, notepad, notepad++
    • current: vim, gedit
    • longest: vim
    • will never use: nano, emacs
    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 hour ago

    :D Nice additional categories.

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

    Never had any forced on me.

    [–] Magister@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

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

    [–] remilia@lemmy.cyberia9.org 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)
    • Fave: GNU Emacs
    • First: MS DOS Edit
    • Future: GNU Emacs
    • Honorable Mention: Jed and Zile
    • Loathed: Visual Code
    • Current: GNU Emacs
    • Longest: GNU Emacs
    [–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 2 points 3 hours ago
    • 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
    [–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 hour ago

    Immolo? Is that you?