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May I introduce you to the simple life of just using whatever text editor and terminal that comes presintalled on your favoraite distro? It's ridiculous how far this can get you, I've been enjoying gnome text ediotor with gnome terminal.
ed is a truly wonderful editor indeed!
The greatest WYGIWYG editor, with an extremely consistent error interface.
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Works great on 300 baud; not many editors can boast that. Also, if your programs are all under 2000 lines long.
Yeah no thanks. Linting, formatting, LSP integration, Treesitter,... are just kind of essential for programming work. And the advantage of nvim/emacs/... is that you can bend them to your will and preferences.
If you just want to edit some config files, sure, use literally anything. But I need something proper for work, and if I already set all of that up, might as well use it for the config files, too.
some distros ship kate, and that's a super good pick for code editing
Fake news. Emacs is the only text editor non-heathens and heathens should be using.
I did this for the past 3 years. At some point I just got curious what all the hype is about, so I installed emacs and slowly started to use it. Now I am at a point, where Im getting comfortable around emacs and actually start to enjoy its features.
Befor I usually used nano, since I mostly edited my text files from within my terminal.
Gedit is very nice, and very versatile