Which text editor do you use?
But real *nix’ers use
edYou may as well start there. You’ll be using it eventually once you inevitably develop the same passionate idolization of Unix that I, the righteous self appointed evangelist of all things good && just && Unix possess.
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I love gram
You guys edit text?
First choice: use a normal damn GUI text editor
Second choice: Nano. It’s simple and comprehensible, and a best CLI choice for newbies. You can then turn to vim, emacs, or whatever, but don’t make your life harder from the get-go
People suggesting to start with Vim are probably the same ones pushing for Arch as a first distro. C’mon.
use a normal damn GUI text editor
The right choice as long as you don’t want to edit code/config files. Trust me, writing code inside libre office is not fun.
Was gonna write that only one true text editor exists. But okay, you are right, of course
That’s how you breed scrubs who can’t M-x-butterfly. I say give them a distro that boots into vi and starts a background process that block internet access around them. If they manage to quit vi and kill the daemon, they’re ready for Linux.
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.
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.
Wait until you get cornered by elite Helix enjoyers
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.
I just use the inbuilt text editor in linux mint.
Or a full fledged IDE when I edit code.
And then there’s me on Geany…
I use Neovim with this config https://github.com/Willie169/nvim-config
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I am no coder, so I only ever need to modify configs or write down my thoughts. nano for configs, Standard Notes for thoughts
Emacs with Vim’s modal editing.
Kate and micro
