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I'm using Emacs, but after getting a bit used to the vanilla keybindings for the past couple of weeks i still feel like vim-like motions are better, so now i'm playing around with a helix-mode package to emulate helix keybindings (i was using helix before switching to emacs). One change i did make though is bind end-of-line and beginning-of-line to $ and 0 like in proper vim. Helix uses END ans HOME keys for this and i hate it lol, no idea why they thought it was a good idea to move that far away from the home row for that.

Vim or Zed

Honestly, since I switched to vim and got through the first month of "why the fuck am I doing this to myself", I just can't go back. Especially once you get to customizing it, installing plugins, themes etc ... it's better than any IDE out there.

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

Ok hear me out: Microsoft Edit

neovim

Nano for TUI and Pulsar for GUI.

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 and kate I edit text not books of configs.

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.

Just go with ed, it is the standard for a reason.

vim

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

My colon quit.

Who loves nano??

Why is this post not mentioning the most important editor of all time? Why is this post deliberately missing out the standard text editor ed, that wastes no system resource on unnecessary output like help messages or a text buffer. If you are coming to Linux you should really start looking into learning ed, since, well it is the standard Texteditor overall.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html

Also the naming of these apps are incredible confusing. Im using linux full time for over a year now (Mint, Bazzite) and still cant remember the names of half the damn utility apps. Its a good thing most distros show you the most likely thing if you start typing in some slightly relevant text to the search.

My idiot brain hardwired by years of windows use: -I need to download an app... Something, something app store

Linux: -You mean Bazaar?

-Aw yisss, but also want to make a screenshot, something to do with snipping tool?

-Spectacle maybe?

-Fuck yeah!

kate when I am using GUI and vim when I am using CLI.

Noobs get hit with friendly fire.

I use

1. sublime-text when not confined to a terminal
2. nano for example with git's CLI
3. vi/vim when the others are not available.

Nano in the CLI, kate in the GUI

Linux has made great strides to being approachable for new users. The agony of choice for so many things (distro, editor, nearly any tool family with more than one option) and the factionalism around the options is probably one of the few big obstacles left.

I don't have a solution for the factionalism. I'd put forth a suggestion for a simple "standard" choice (Kate/gedit for GUI and nano for CLI; I personally use vim, but I think nano is more approachable) but I'm sure someone will disagree and we're back to square one.

I use nano for simple text edits, anything more and I use sublime, or code.

Used to develop c++ in emacs though, never got the benefit of VIM, super hard to use.

vis

Gentoo picked vi for me about 20 years ago...

tag yourself i'm the french vanilla sublime text softly reassuring to safety

I used to use nano.

Since I learned how to exit vim, without murdering it, I use vim. Vim is mostly my choice becasue deleting and moving lines is incedibly fast and it has the very best code highlighting.

Commandline? Nano (or Pico or whatever) if it exists. Else vim/vi. I originally used emacs back in the day. However, for anything else, I'm using the closest thing to notepad++ I can find at the time.