Which text editor do you use?
Choose helix. Native LSP support comes with it, and you will lose vim friends.
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Notepad++ in a Windows XP VM
Notepad++ is the one thing i really miss on linux. I use it daily for work and i just havenβt found an equivalent on linux.
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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
Leafpad, in the terminal nano and vscodium for code. If I really have to open code in the terminal: vim
Vim or neovim. At first just because I wanted to learn it for fun. But now because it after I memorized a few core commands, it really did just feel great to use. Quick and surprisingly easy.
nano and kate I edit text not books of configs.
vim
I still use pico.
sudo nano /etc/fstab
Just go with ed, it is the standard for a reason.
"New? Nano. Wanna try another because you're comfortable now? Do it." Problem solved.
Micro or even better is Fresh. Make use of the modern terminal features for mouse interaction, text highlighting, and standard shortcuts.
joe. And I don't even really know why.
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)
Nano for TUI and Pulsar for GUI.
neovim
mceditπ
Came here just for this comment
The reason why I'm on team Vim is because it's standard. A copy of it is installed on pretty much every Unix-like system out there. Vi is built into Busybox.
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Vim or Zed
gram
I wish I could look at it from a neutral position, but emacs is just too perfect to recommend anything else.
Nvim
i use whatever is default for my distro installation. then feel "off" because it's not notepad.
Gedit for docs (plain and simple + have basic spelling/code highlighting), kate for weird things like JSON (have actual tools to fix spacing/tabulation)
I use vim, but not because itβs good. Iβm just not up for learning something else right now