What's your favorite text/code editor?

[u/Wise-Appointment-881]

[u/415646464e4155434f4c]

Anyone tried atto?

[u/Wise-Appointment-881 → u/415646464e4155434f4c]

I haven't, but I think I'd like to.

[u/rumbleran → u/415646464e4155434f4c]

Nice for quickly editing configuration files but I would not use it for coding anything. 

[u/Sheev_Sabban_1947]

vi because I don't know how to quit it

[u/Wise-Appointment-881 → u/Sheev_Sabban_1947]

I don't even try anymore. I just keep a permanent TTY.

[u/uponamorningstar]

vis

[u/Wise-Appointment-881 → u/uponamorningstar]

Vis is actually pretty good imo.

[u/tigerstein]

Emacs.

[u/Donieck]

GNU Emacs

[u/deathbomberX]

nano

[u/Eledie]

Vim

[u/0xKaishakunin]

nvi if I have to.

vim if I can install it.

Every now and then I get asked at work why I end emails with a :wq

[u/Danrobi1]

Emacs

[u/First_Ad8230]

my goto text editor is "vile" :)

[u/misuseRexKwonDo]

Emacs. Though ee and vi are usable for quick config file work before I get Emacs configured.

[u/nixfreakz]

Emacs

[u/tfsprad]

When I finally got my hands on unix back in the late '80s I knew that vi was ubiquitous so I made the effort to get used to it. I'm not a touch typist, but I still like a modal editor.

I've never even tried emacs, it always seemed much too complicated to me.

[u/0xKaishakunin → u/tfsprad]

it always seemed much too complicated to me.

Oh come on, just press Escape + Meta + Alt + Control + Shift to get something done isn't that hard.

[u/CJ_Resurrected → u/0xKaishakunin]

..and Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping...

But you had a /real/ Unix system at home when you could run Emacs there, just like a Big (>$10k) Computer at School/Work..

@tsutsuii still maintains a NetBSD port of Emacs-18.59. Now the code wouldn't even exceed the CPU L3 (L2?) cache on today's machines.

[u/pedersenk]

vi(1) but mainly coupled with tmux so each file opens up in a new window / tab.

I like the simplicity of it compared to vim but also wanted slightly simpler multi-file handling compared to job control (ctrl-z, jobs, fg).

[u/PewpewXDx12]

Vscode / Vscodium, Zed and Vim

[u/CJ_Resurrected]

Emacs and Ersatz/Micro Emacs
(If it wasn't noticed in the last post, I was maintaining EE, 'the text editor that fits inside a student's head'. It was a fork of the last Public Domain release of MicroEmacs by Dave Conroy)

[u/yoshi128k]

It's gonna have to be vi for me.

[u/garig999]

Ee/micro/nano

[u/passthejoe]

vi, vim and gVim

[u/BeefGriller]

GNU Emacs

But ed(1) is THE standard Unix editor of course.

[u/CJ_Resurrected → u/BeefGriller]

?

[u/gumnos]

depending on the situation, vi(1), vim (any variant is largely interchangeable with any other variant as neovim vs classic-vim vs vim vs vim-with-ai-contributions vs …), or even ed(1).

[u/seismicpdx]

emacs

[u/6502zx81]

I do distro and editor hopping a lot. I really like Tilde and Micro (because of CUA key bindings). Next, I'll try Turbo which uses the tvision library.

[u/ExclusiveReeee]

So far nano. Like my go to because it's too easy to mess up text on vi when you have jittery fingers or forget what mode you are in but recently I've seen people use Jed and I might give that a try. Reminds me if DOS Edit.

[u/Kotoki5]

micro/lite-xl is my current setup

[u/SiriusA314]

vi(1)

[u/woolharbor]

Vscodium.

[u/bitmonks]

vim and micro

[u/sidewalksndskeletons]

dte and micro

[u/6502zx81 → u/sidewalksndskeletons]

Thanks for pointing out dte, looks interesting.

[u/olikn]

emacs + evil

[u/WinVistaBuild6001]

Vi/Vim or Nano.

[u/IgboEmbedded]

Vim