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[–] Treeniks@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haven't seen anyone mention the Zed Text Editor yet. It's only available on MacOS as of now, but I've tried it out a bit and once it's more mature (and available on other OSes), I might switch over from Sublime Text. It's got a similar speed as Sublime, but with LSP, vim emulation and collaboration features built in, whereas in Sublime I need to install packages to achieve the same. Also made by the same people who originally made Atom and Treesitter.

I also want to mention Onivim. Unfortunately, development has stopped, so it's not really a viable option anymore, but I loved the idea. The idea was to make a vscode/vim hybrid. To that extend, it's written in Reason which allowed them to support vscode extensions, thus they didn't have to create their own extension ecosystem, while still being faster than electron. As for the vim part, the entire editor could be controlled with a keyboard. They had a global shortcut to go into a "UI move mode" so to say, which allowed you to go to every single piece of UI you had on screen. Thus they were able to copy the vscode UI, but still be keyboard-only. It was a surprisingly effective idea, so I hope some people can revive it someday.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago

Mousepad is my daily driver for all my quick notes

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux:

  • Kate
  • Xed

Windows:

  • Kate
  • Notepad
  • Notepad++
[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Lmao.

I hardly use Windows (I use Arch btw), so Notepad isn't that big of an issue.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand. Is the default text editor on Arch (btw) worse than Notepad? O_O

[–] JSens1998@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, im just playing around with you. I don't use Arch btw... I use Kde Neon. Anyway, what I was trying to say is that I hardly ever use Windows, so as a result I barely use Notepad. Nothing wrong with Notepad... its just basic compared to Kate or xed.

[–] magnus@lemmy.ahall.se 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using ed for small edits when I know exactly that only a certain line needs to be deleted, or a word changed.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

ed is the standard editor!

[–] queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

For terminal; micro is nano but sane and easier to use.

For GUI; Kate is so incredible at any task I need. Note taking, to scripting, to planning out a small post online, it does the work easily.

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Kate/KWrite on KDE, Xed on any GTK DE, and micro for the terminal.

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