• Daeraxa
      6•2 years ago

      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.

      • Daeraxa
        5•2 years ago

        Glad you found us at least :) Those were the exact reasons we wanted to keep it alive, I tried but I just can’t get used to VSC having used Atom for so long.

  • @Klaymore@sh.itjust.works
    13•2 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.

  • Nemo Wuming
    13•2 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
      2•2 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.

  • @recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
    10•2 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.

  • christos
    8•2 years ago

    I like xed for coding. Simple, costumisable enough, great experience.

    • @i_kick_puppies@lemmy.ca
      3•2 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

    • @mcepl@lemmy.world
      3•1 year 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.

  • @jsdz@lemmy.ml
    8•2 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.

    • Affine ConnectionEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Ed Is The Standard Text Editor

      ed, ex, and vi are all standard, required text editors in the Single Unix Specification.

  • @fubo@lemmy.world
    9•2 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•2 years ago

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

      • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
        1•1 year 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

  • @fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
    31•2 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
      21•2 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•2 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.

    • jelloeaterEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Hell yeah, Micro master race. It gives me VSCode feels on the CLI. It’s great ❤️

  • Quazatron
    11•2 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.

  • Treeniks
    2•2 years 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.