I generally use micro on the terminal, kate or gedit in the GUI, depending. No hate towards the others, just what I've settled on over the years.
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micro for sure. But I dont use it as a main editor. Just for quick text file adjustments.
Neovim + LazyVim
Have been using vim for the longest time, but I‘m getting into nvim :)
Vim for the most part, and nano for when I'm tired and can't remember how to work vim.
just learn acme
Nvim all the way
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vim forever (i think)
A few years ago I'd say Vim but nowadays it's Neovim for me.
Used to use micro but just switched to neovim, I'm finding it great, esp with the file manager built in
do you use neovim over vim for any particular reason?
i ask because i'm a vim user and wondering if should update but wondering if the x windows overhead is worth it.
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Vim unless I can neovim.
Being able to change configs on headless systems was my gateway, now I just prefer it
I still use nano, I tried micro and it's confusing af to use also it didn't allow konsole context menu to copy anything from it or paste anything from outside even with ctrl+v or ctrl+shift+v
My first distro shipped with pico, so I often choose nano for an edit. Micro is fine, too, but I won't go out of my way to install it.
I challenged myself to write a couple of projects in neovim over a month or so. I finished my projects, but it still felt like the tool was getting in my way. Muscle memory is to break. Current job requires a bigger IDE, but I still do my commit messages with neovim.