Team Vim. Because I learned the vim basics once 20 years ago and never bothered to learn after that. :D

At the risk of restarting the Editor wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war) from days of yore, I find it interesting that emacs wasn't even in your list of contenders. I hear it mentioned less frequently these days, so perhaps it's going by the wayside?

For the record, I'm a vi/vim user! I had the privilege of being taught to use it by an RFC-writing greybeard decades ago, and have used it without thinking ever since.

For those who find themselves on a machine with only vi/vim, or want to learn, here's a quick primer when editing a file (usually done by typing "vi foo.txt" in a shell) --

:q! ...Force quit vi (:q also works -- gentler!)

:wq! ...Save file and quit vi

i (then type characters) ...insert text at current position

A (then type characters) ...Insert at end of current line

G ...go to first character of last line in the file

/foo ...search for first occurrence of "foo" in the file (hit / again to find additional instances)

x ...Delete character under cursor

:56 ...Go to line 56

yy ...Copy the line the cursor is currently on into the buffer

p ... Paste the buffer

r (then type character) ...Replace character under cursor

u ...undo (hit multiple times to undo prior actions)

When done with a command like this, hit Esc to go back into normal mode.

Second nature after a bit of practice! I used to work with a guy who insisted on using ed. That was... odd.

I use Helix... Uhhh idk I think it's nice I guess

nano. I can't memorize esoterica.

Neovim

nano for quick things; emacs for longer typing sessions.

micro for sensible defaults out of the box, and because I don't like modal editors.

Nano, because it's the only one I can remember how to quit from without power cycling the computer.

Team Neovim.

I looked into ed, then decided its not for me.

I'm an emacs -nw kind of guy.

But if I have to pick one of your options, nano

NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.

I only ever use a terminal based editor for making quick edits of config files, so nano works just fine for me.

vim

Emacs.

With all the vimmery going around nowadays though, I feel like I'm on the losing team. ;_;

Helix when I can install things, vi when I can't.

I use nano because I haven't learned how to use anything else yet.

Emacs

I use emacs

"Why are we running from the police, Dad?"

"Because they use vim, son. We use Emacs".

vim, mainly cause I haven't figured out how to quit yet.

mcedit

I have switched to using helix, so no matter which distro I am on I need to change it to be my default by setting the EDITOR env var.

Nano. It's easy and I've never had a reason to change.

Vim, but I also find this battle completely stupid.

I realized that I'd forgotten about pico and joe, the latter was my very first text editor (hated it!).

Neovim. One time I accidentally opened nano and couldn't figure out how to get out of it... Wtf is with those keybinds?

Lol at emacs not even being on your list. Suck it, emacs users 😂😂❤️

I'm on team "whatever comes pre-installed"

Helix

@SocialistVibes01 Emacs of course

I use nano for quick edits. I don't know more than the basics of vim, and don't do a lot of editing on the terminal so I haven't needed to.

My first computer was an Amstrad 664, with a green screen. I’m old. And I’ve been around Vim and EMacs from time to time and I love the console but for the love of god, since GUIs became the normal way to interact with computers, I just install micro now and have the same hotkeys across all the modes of interaction.

Speed of typing really isn’t the defining productivity measure for code.

Now I use VS Code in a GUI and micro on the console and that provides a reasonably consistent way of interacting with text.

Vim forever, any flavour, don't care.

Why? Does actually exist anything else for the terminal?

nano but i'm a casual. i can use vi/vim in a pinch, but i'm inefficient. ed and emacs are totally foreign

i tend to use a graphical text editor like Kate unless there is a specific reason to do it in the terminal

Neovim.

For novelty I do install msedit, because nostalgia is rose tinted. But for realsies it's vim, not because I'm good at using it, but I'm familiar enough.

Neovim, configured entirely through nixvim. I always liked neovim, but it's never been as incredibly stable as now with nixvim.

Main/only IDE both in private and at work. Can't ever go back, muscle memory has ensured that.