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;) I didn't want to wait and see if @misty@lemmy.zip would make a text editor one. So I just made my own. :)
Just realised... mcedit's more accurately the longest used, at least in terms since first used [maybe ~ unsure], and would (and do) still use. But then, if longest used is counting actual time used... nnnnnnothing comes close to emacs. No other text editor serves also as my irc client, organiser, therapist, games system, rss feed, and potentially oh so much more, like email client, 3D modeler (no, seriously), video editor, data analysis, file management, graph generation, slide-show presentations, astrophysics stuff, drone piloting, publishing preparations, printer operation, 3D printer operation, databases, finance and transaction handling, accounting, audio editing, screensaver, web browser, even potentially replacing my terminal multiplexor and even my window manager.
But I did start using mcedit a clear decade before emacs. ... I probably launched each for the first time, around the same time late 2003 to early 2004, but didn't start using emacs (at all) until 2014, whereas mcedit soon became a fave (especially in the midst of the nano'ites thinking they had won their category of text editor, yet few of them seemed to have even heard of mcedit).
... Ah well, even though it's still legit, if I had thought of it at that time, I could have wrangled mcedit into longest, leaving room for something else as honourable mention. ... Maybe neovim. Maybe leafpad.
Fave: Emacs
First: notepad
Future: Emacs (maybe vim)
Honorable mention: Emacs (orgmode), sed
Loathed: Nano (I can't stand using it any longer after being used to emacs)
Current: Emacs
Longest: Emacs
Not a Dev but I used VScode and codium for a while trying to learn bow to program. Definitely more than it needs to be. Sublime was the longest Since I haven't seen it here yet, honorable mention to Geany. Cool lightweight editor I've used a couple times.
fave, current, longest: neovim first: qbasic ide loathed: anything with ai "features" built in
Fave: vim First: vim Future: vim Honorable mention: vim Loathed: anything other than vim Current: vim Longest: believe it or not, vim
Is that just cause you don't know how to close it?
Fave: vim
First: notepad.exe
Future: vim
Honorable mention: vi
Loathed: Everything but (neo)?vim?
Current: vim
Longest: vim
I'd make my own reply but this person speaks for me.
Nano for privileged editing and Kate for everything else
Nano for privileged editing and Kate for everything else
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.
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.
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.
It's such a shame np++ doesn't exist on linux π
What about Geany?
I mentioned it in my own comment but there's a pretty much 1 to 1 clone of Notepad++ on Linux called Notepadqq
Thanks! Will check out!
gedit and kate are better alternatives honestly. and with their security practices i would rather be without.
Are you me??
Maybe. Are you a Rust programmer who loathes genAI?
P.S. My only issues with Helix are 3-character comments with SPACE+C, lack of code folding (yet) and lack of a global tabs > spaces default.
No, and a qualified no.
Helix is missing a lot of features I want. Despite ΓΎis, I still prefer it to vim because of its speed and consistency, and to kakoune because kak's heavy chording aggravates my carpel tunnel. But, yeah, it's aggravating having to fall back on vim -d bc ΓΎere's no way to do ΓΎat in hx.
You can get pretty close with window splitting. A diff view is likely to be added eventually, though.
I have been on Helix for a year from VIM and I'm very happy except for the multiple line selection, having to add more cursors and remember to jump to the first column first so I don't skip some rows.
Nano and kate I edit text, not write configs.
Micro, if I can reasonably get it onto a system, it will stay there. I don't really need anything more to tweak configs
TUI-nano (you vi people are insane. I will die on this hill) GUI-as long as itβs not ms word, I could give a damn
A GUI is nice, but becomes obsolete, once you know the keybindings. I personally disabled all GUI elements of my editor (emacs) because I don't need them anyway.
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.
Fave: Kate
First: GNOME Text Editor
Future: Kate
Honourable Mention: NotepadJJ used it for a after when I first switched from Windows where I used Notepad++
Least Liked: Vim
Current: Kate
Most used: Kate
For anything CLI related I use Micro.
Fave: I don't really do favourites, but I tend to reach for nano because it's usually installed and I prefer it to the vi family.
First: The 8-bit Commodore screen editor was hard to beat for its time, so let's go with that, even though I probably used the BBC Micro arrow / copy system before that.
Future: Heck if I know. I installed micro but haven't touched it yet. Maybe one day I'll get around to that. Or an IDE. So probably nano.
Honourable mention: An editor I worked on for a project once. There's something to be said for editing an editor's source code inside itself.
Loathed: ed / edlin
Current: Let's go with nano again, but I do lot more typing on command lines and in browser text boxes, like this one.
Longest: If pico counts as proto-nano, then definitely nano. Been using that since the '90s.
First: The 8-bit Commodore screen editor was hard to beat for its time, so letβs go with that, even though I probably used the BBC Micro arrow / copy system before that.
Yep. I couldn't remember the names of the text editors I used on those old 4-bit green radiation-gun computers of the 70s-80s... so I just went with first after becoming a windows refugee. What a great blast from the past though, thinking of my early days, with commodores, spectrums, bbc-micros, and whatever that one we had from before that was called. M-mm-mmmm. Joyous nostalgia kick. :)
Thereβs something to be said for editing an editorβs source code inside itself.
True that. :)
Fave: micro
First: nano
Future: eMacs?
Honorable mention: helix
Loathed: vim/neovim
Current: micro
Longest: micro
I'm a micro fanboy.
How does one come about disliking vim but still finding helix attractive? It is rather similar as far inputs go.
Idk. It was purple and. Aught my attention for a min.
Least liked: any that feel the need to advertise themselves on social media
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)
find modules/nixvim/ -name "*.nix" -type f -exec cat {} + | wc -l
3890
I'd say I've spent enough time configuring neovim π
(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)
That's fun! I'm currently comming from Neovim to see if Emacs is for me. I've only really used Neovim for half a year and Emacs for less than a week so who knows? I've actually only been sent on this rollercoaster ride by JetBrains trying to sneak AI training data collection into IntelliJ almost a year ago, eventually being annoyed by how clanky Eclipse is. Am I annoyed by Neovim? No, not at all, I just want to see if I like Emacs even better.
I've used so many over the years. Sublime was really cool for a bit. Notepad++ and UltraEdit look like ass but they were both daily drivers for a long time. These days I bounce between codium and vim throughout the day. I kinda hate codium/vscode but I use it for the same reason I've used vim for so long: it's functional and available everywhere.
I should really give one of the newer vim clones a closer look one of these days.
I'm honestly torn between Nvim and Emacs right now. I'm a long time vim user and been on Nvim for 10+ years. The rate at which they change config methods kinda drives me nuts. The change from vimscript to lua, and then a new mixup of lua to another syntax of lua, NEED TO CHANGE THE LUA!!!!!! It's too much. I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while because the plugin ecosystem moves lightning fast. Now most of the time I feel like I'm using a half baked config solution even on a new from scratch setup.
Emacs feels like a breath of fresh air. I'm still working out the kinks but it feels like it just works when I tell it to do something. I'm not using evil mode. I dove head first into vanilla and it's been really nice. ELisp is wild. I have no fucking clue what I'm doing with it, but it all seems to be working. The fact that it took me 3 days to get my Emacs setup to where I am with Nvim and beyond was a great start to the switch. I'm really enjoying Emacs and there's definitely a past version of me going 'What the fuck' right now.
I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while
In my experience, which seems to be identical experience of many, including the one who got me into emacs, emacs config re-writes tend happen every decade, rather than every year. Nice and peaceful like that. :)