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.
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
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 [email protected] 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.
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.
It’s not exactly lesser known, but I only use Kate on both Linux and Windows
Kate in gui, nano in terminal
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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I’ve been looking for a long time for a good alternative to sublime text.
however it’s not really a text editor, it’s more like a full IDE at this point, I really like lapce, it does have some bugs, but it’s really lightweight and fast, and I like the UI a lot
I think Zed looks really promising in that regard, although it’s only on MacOS so far (but other OSes will come). It feels like sublime text, but with modern LSP, vim emulation and collaboration features built in.
it does seem neat, but also a bit overkill for what I want
Not perfectly sure what you mean. I found Zed to be not any less simple than Sublime+LSP+Terminus. Mind elaborating?
I dont need nor want an LSP, the collaboration features or any of that. just nice and simple, for all that other stuff i have the full de like lapce or vscode
Just curious, why do you want to replace SublimeText with an alternative?
I prefer open source in general
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.
Removed by mod
I like xed for coding. Simple, costumisable enough, great experience.
- 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 [email protected] /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
As someone who studied radio astronomy, thanks for telling me about Pulsar.
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.
