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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.

gnome text editor

Which text editor do you use?

• Emacs mostly
• sometimes fin for configs and some other small file tweaks and when developing/testing fin,
• sometimes mcedit just because it's an awesome under sung hero of easy tui text editors. ... beats nano imo.
• sometimes leafpad, like when i need some intermediary between things that are being stubborn to paste between
• rare neovim, like when i'm trying to learn neovim, or trying something that only neovim has
• rare nano... there are probably still times...
• once kate to see what it was like, I liked it, then I added the features I liked to emacs.

nano lovers 😂

Leafpad, in the terminal nano and vscodium for code. If I really have to open code in the terminal: vim

You never hear about Nice Editor but I'd like to submit it for consideration. It's no IDE, but I like it better than nano.

neovim for terminal based editing and jetbrains for a more full fledged project experience.

sudo sed -i

Micro is pretty good

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?

sudo nano /etc/fstab

I use both vim and nano.

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

yeah, it's all true, lol.

it's emacs, though.

Micro because it's literally nano with more familiar shortcuts

Came here to see my helix fam, was not disappointed.

Nvim

I think it comes with a text editor already built in. I don't need a text editor though.

hx

I use an IDE when I want to code, and Kwrite for when I just need a simple-ass .txt file

I was a big fan of Atom before it died, and I recently found out that it now has a spiritual successor, https://pulsar-edit.dev/ which I've been using for when I do coding projects

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

Who uses nano?

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

I wish I could look at it from a neutral position, but emacs is just too perfect to recommend anything else.

xed

Suck it dorks!

i use whatever is default for my distro installation. then feel "off" because it's not notepad.

I use vim, but not because it’s good. I’m just not up for learning something else right now

I just use the inbuilt text editor in linux mint.

Or a full fledged IDE when I edit code.

I use Vim. I am not a power user by any stretch but it's what I use. I know like three shortcuts, which is enough to make me marginally faster in vim than nano. I don't really feel much desire to learn a terminal editor and be super good with it. There are other things I'm more interested in spending my time on if I feel motivated to learn.