• fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    3 years ago

    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.

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
      21·
      3 years ago

      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.

      • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
        9·
        3 years ago

        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.

  • Nemo Wuming@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 years ago

    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.

    • Ramin Honary@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      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.txt

      and pipe the commands into ed, although it is really an esoteric way to write scripts.

  • Klaymore@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • Quazatron@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
    10·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 years ago

    Before I got around to learning vi, I spent a few years using joe, 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.

    https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/

    • Decker108@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      I use joe regularly for in-terminal editing. It’s easy, lightweight and very helpful, unlike vi…

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 years ago

        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

    • mcepl@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 years ago

      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_kick_puppies@lemmy.ca
      3·
      3 years ago

      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

  • jsdz@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • Drito@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    3 years ago

    I frequently use Howl

    Distraction free, command autocompletion, Vim-like control is optional. I learned most of the commands by just opening the mini buffer (alt-x) then tab to watch the autocompletion list.

    • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      I like the idea of Howl, its just a shame that interest and development seem to have dried up. The use of Moonscript might put people off rather than just using Lua.

  • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago
    • Helix for terminal editing because I never got on well with the order you had to do things in Vim, Helix (and Kakoune) make more sense to me.
    • Lite-XL for a lightweight GUI editor. I just think its neat.
    • Pulsar for everything else (mainly because I’m involved with it, come visit us on Lemmy at !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml /shill). Literally over 10k packages for install and an awful lot of active development.

    Edit: Using this to give a shout out to other projects I’ve come across on my travels:

    • Brackets/Phoenix - A community effort to keep the abandoned Adobe Brackets editor going, has a web version now, linux version still in the works after Adobe removed support for it.
    • CudaText - Pretty fast and supports a huge number of languages
    • eCode - Not used it in a while but is part of the eeep GUI project, lightweight and pretty interesting with lots of active development on both eCode and eeep.
    • Bitters - Very much an oddball here, inspired by the Canon CAT word processor/computer from the 80s with a really interesting “leaping” way of navigating text.
    • Aura Text - Interesting little editor written in Python

    And some terminal ones:

    • Zee - an emacs-like editor written in Rust. Main repo seems to be dead but one of the Lapce devs is working on a fork of it - https://git.panekj.dev/pj/zee
    • Amp - another Rust based editor with some interesting ways to navigate text
    • dte - Just a nice terminal editor
    • moe - Vim-like editor written in Nim (not to be confused with GNU Moe)
    • Feather - Specifically for opening huge files
    • Tilde - Curses type interface, can be used with a mouse in some terminals
      • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
        3·
        3 years ago

        I’ve been wanting to get more and more thematic with naming things but my efforts haven’t come to fruit just yet. Like we have “regular” and “rolling” releases but those are boring (although descriptive), I was proprosing something like Nebula and Quasar, you know, something that ties in with the space name.

    • i_kick_puppies@lemmy.ca
      2·
      3 years ago

      Pulsar looked really nice until I realised it’s just another electron app. But will probably give lite-xl a try

      • Daeraxa@lemmy.ml
        41·
        3 years ago

        It absolutely isn’t “another electron app” in that sense. Atom (and now Pulsar) literally invented Electron, it is the original Electron app to the point where even thinking about de-coupling it isn’t really possible. Electron literally used to be called “Atom-shell”.