I liked Sublime enough to pay for it. It has become my primary text editor at home.

I also like Atom/Pulsar, but it takes a but too long to open for my use case.

Obsidian isn’t exactly a text editor, but it fits many of the use cases. It may be closed source, but all the files are accessible and usable if the app ever disappears.

I want to use vim more, but I’m lazy, and the learning curve keeps putting me off. I might get there eventually.

Nano is ol’ reliable. When everything else failed, Nano was still there for me and worked perfectly.

Can I introduce you to the miracles of fresh? https://getfresh.dev/

My colon quit.

I don’t understand the issue. I’ve been using Linux less than a year but I started with a KDE desktop so it came with Kate, Kwrite, and Nano. I’ve literally never needed anything else.

I’ve tried out a couple IDEs like Codium and Geany, but I don’t see what they offer that Kate doesn’t.

I’ve also at least opened Emacs but I didn’t get much further than that.

I use Nano in the terminal when I’m editing config files because I read somewhere that it’s safer.

I installed Neovim and Micro but I haven’t explored those at all yet. I don’t have any problems with Nano.

I tried Pluma but I really only use it for dumping lists.

For the most part I use Kate, but for simpler notes I use Kwrite just to keep them in separate spots on my launcher.

I don’t see why this is such an issue though.

Nothing wrong with Kate. I know how to use Nano because it’s an essential skill for when your machine boots into emergency mode, but aside from that editing text from the terminal is lunacy.

yeah, it’s all true, lol.

it’s emacs, though.

serious question:
what are you using your text editor for that requires all these features?

i just hot down quick notes, maybe an address, quick and bare budget, or a short list of things.

the kind of things i thought people use text editors for.

more robust documents, libre office or word.

I’m not making a joke, I’m really wondering why it matters? isn’t it just notepad or what am i missing?

Nano, Micro, JOE, ee(1). Those are my suggestions.

Best choice: use whatever comes pre-installed.

Micro. What you are looking for is micro. It’s great

Started using helix after vim and neovim went full llm brain.

Poor souls of those that haven’t found the way of the Gnu.

May the Gnu have mercy of your lost ways and show you the light M-x show-light RET

May the macros never lack in your life,
May your parentheses be balanced,
And may your init.el pass with no fails.

Emen

I constantly switch between Nixvim, DOOM Emacs, helix, and NVChad. I can never settle on one editor for long. I don’t know why.

vi because it’s everywhere, even on servers where packages can’t be downloaded or shouldn’t be installed.

I miss atom, when it was discontinued I tried vscodium and immediately hated it, then used kate for a while, and now use neovim. neovim is nice but atom was just so good