Micro - not quite as fancy as Helix but it’s a static binary, bells and whistles included, and ready to go without config. If you’re still using nano/pico, micro is a nice step up in functionality without the complexity of vim et al.
Multiple cursors, splits and tabs, mouse support, syntax highlighting, keyboard shortcuts that are more noob-friendly / familiar, it’s great.
I don’t know why Micro hasn’t completely replaced Nano in the Linux world.
Wait, yes I do.
Despite believing it to be better in every way, my dumb fingers keep automatically reaching for the Nano keyboard shortcuts.You know what the key combo is to copy a selection of text in Micro?
Ctrl C, why would it ever be anything else?
You know what the key combo is to copy a selection of text in Nano?
Fucking shift, alt, 6.
6!!And then Ctrl U to paste. I hate that I’m used to that.
Never heard of that key combo in nano before, I’ve always used ctrl-K (which actually cuts, then I have to paste it back again if I want to leave that text in place).
[Edit] Looks like you only need to hit alt-6, not shift-alt-6, to copy a full line or whatever text has been highlighted.
Huh, I wonder where I got the shift from. Still kinda bonkers though.
It’s because of what ctrl+c does in most terminals
Vim users:
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Hell yeah, Micro master race. It gives me VSCode feels on the CLI. It’s great ❤️
Only thing missing is code block folding and unfolding functionality
Kate. Its such a brilliant foundation.
I currently have no idea of how to do it but in theory you can add any languages autocomplete, as well as huge libraries of auto-text (like in VSCode, templates for code stuff).
And its fast, unlike stupid electron VSCodium
I’m a new Kate convert. I had some issue on my system where GTK apps would break under Nvidia, something to do with font rendering. I tried Kate and was like “cool it works” and then I discovered how amazing and lightweight it is. Great editor.
It really is amazingly fast but also so extensible!
Kate is my togo. With a terminal panel and latex->Unicode plugin is perfect for julia. I don’t need it, but you can also set up its LSP client.
I also like Kate. I use it for Python, Html/css and some other stuff. I really like it since it’s light and fast but full of features. Also integrates well with my desktop.
Haha ever used it on Windows? Damn thats weird
I use Pulsar for working on my many JavaScript projects. It’s a FOSS, community-maintained replacement for the canceled Atom text editor.
Yay, always nice to see people mention it (outside of myself just shouting it into the void :P) - we are active on Lemmy now at !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml too.
Subscribed. Keep up the good work :).
I’ve been using Lapce for a bit and it’s pretty cool, like VSCode but written in Rust. It’s actually so much faster, like you press a key and there’s instantly autocomplete suggestions and error warnings, so it feels a lot more responsive than VSCode. It also opens faster. There’s still a couple weird things and missing functionality though because it’s early in development so I’ll probably go back to VSCode for now.
It’s not exactly lesser known, but I only use Kate on both Linux and Windows
Kate in gui, nano in terminal
The original “ed” text editor, from 1969 Unix. Everyone should spend a few days trying to get some work done with it, if only to appreciate how we have nicer things now.
It is lovely on embedded devices. I sometimes bring it out for fun on my main PC instead of vim too haha
Another nice thing about ed is that it is sometimes easier to use than sed when you want to edit a file programmatically, since you can navigate lines at random (forward and backward directions), and you can still run regex find/replace like with sed. Just
printf 'i\nstring of ed commands\n.\n' | ed file-to-edit.txtand pipe the commands into ed, although it is really an esoteric way to write scripts.
Geany. A real sleak, flexible and powerful editor.
You can use it to edit multiple lines simultaneously, perform extensive search/replace operations, etc.
It has plugins that can transform it from a humble notepad to a full IDE with code versioning support.
It often saves me from having to muck about with sed or awk in some tasks.
I came here to say geany. I love the speed, simplicity and power. Use it every day for coding and other text things.
Idk if it counts as less popular, but I always thought Sublime got too much flak. The popups are annoying, but other than that it’s a great editor imo. It doesn’t have the bells and whistles of something like VSCode or a full IDE, but that’s also why I like it, it’s much more snappy and lightweight. And you can still get things like LSP working so for me at least it gives me everything I look for in an editor. I even decided to pay for a license a few years back, considering I make my salary with this thing the cost is negligible.
Currently, I prefer using Helix.
I’ll give you six that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:
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simandvis, both of which focus on combiningvimmotions with structural regular expressions as used in… -
samandacmefrom Plan 9, both of which are included in Plan 9 from User Space (akaplan9port).samalso has a modified/expanded version in the form ofdeadpixi/sam, whileacmehas spin-offs like a port to Go and a standalone version. -
mg, one of the three default text editors included with OpenBSD (the others beingvianded). -
sandy, the abandoned suckless text editor. It usesdmenuand is fun to mess with for shits and giggles.
I am trying to help with vis and it is a lot of fun to use. Aside from things where I really need neovim (because of large plugins), I use vis every day. Sam and ACME (and whole Plan9 for that matter) have the biggest problem with being too GUI oriented. They are from times when we discovered a mouse and then decided we need to use it for everything. Thirty years down the line we know better: we don’t.
I think you mean st instead of dmenu here
…no, I definitely meant
dmenu.sandyhas keybindings that bring up (by default) variousdmenuprompts as a substitute for the usual “command mode”.:orM-xto bring up a command prompt,C-\for a “pipe to” prompt,M-\for asedprompt… you get the idea.stis just the suckless terminal emulator;sandycan be run from any terminal emulator.
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Before I got around to learning
vi, I spent a few years usingjoe, which seems to have fallen out of active development (the last release was in 2018). It’s a terminal-based editor that bears some resemblance to old DOS editors.I love Joe. And even though its last update was a while ago, it’s still my preferred editor.
I use joe regularly for in-terminal editing. It’s easy, lightweight and very helpful, unlike vi…
I’d argue that vi/vim is fairly light depending on how you’re using it. I don’t use any plug-ins and I much prefer it over GUI programs other than in exceptional circumstances
Emacs. Everything.
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Ed Is The Standard Text Editor
I’m not saying it doesn’t get a lot of shout outs, but it could always do with one more. I think the last time I used it was to automate the editing of config files on some antiquated telephony system by piping ed commands through netcat. There remains a chance that I might live long enough to find some excuse to use it again.
Using Ed on an old Unix system feels like talking about WW2 with a veteran in a home except we both have shellshock.
Ed Is The Standard Text Editor
ed,ex, andviare all standard, required text editors in the Single Unix Specification.
I like xed for coding. Simple, costumisable enough, great experience.
I use it too, since I’m on Linux Mint. But only for simple stuff. I dont use it for anything more involved than simple bash scripts. Xed is nice, just wish it as a little more powerful
