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So we have: Vim, Emacs, BBEdit, textmate, notepad++, SublimeText, Atom, Visual Code, Geany... am I missing any?

by victorbstan 6y ago

adrianN 6y ago
ed is the standard editor.
- sgt 6y ago
  ed is also relevant if you find yourself on an old Sun box with a corrupted /usr volume. In order to rescue the system you need an editor, and ed always lived in /bin. This happened to me a few years ago (2001 I think).
reddotX 6y ago
micro https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/
- efrecon 6y ago
  micro is really good! It installs quickly and provides for just the minimal set of features to be used as a goto editor for small tasks at the terminal.
markstos 6y ago
Yes, most of them.
saagarjha 6y ago
Nano.
hoistbypetard 6y ago
joe, pico, nano, elvis, jedit, acme, gedit, kedit... and those are just the ones that popped into my head within a few seconds. There are legions more.
627467 6y ago
(elementary) Code
Narishma 6y ago
You're missing dozens more, if not hundreds.
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  How about just the ones big enough to make it on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors I'm surprised an HN reader could think there were nine text editors and couldn't be bothered to google it.
  - victorbstan 6y ago
    It was a rhetorical question alas. Smartaleklike.
petepete 6y ago
Also Kakoune http://kakoune.org/ http://kakoune.org/
brnt 6y ago
Komodo Edit is underappreciated imho: https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/downloads/edit/ https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/downloads/ed...
squarefoot 6y ago
I used MED in the old OS/2 days. It has been ported to Windows since, sadly not to Linux. Not free, both as in beer and speech, but reasonably priced and imo worth taking a look. http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html
dTal 6y ago
Kate. Wikipedia calls it a "basic text editor for the KDE desktop" but it really isn't - as well the usual suspects, it has well-conceived ergonomic features like a minimap, rainbow parens, and smart indentation for a variety of contexts (including Lisp/Scheme!). A real coder's editor. Fond memories of Geany, though, and probably my first choice if I were on some super-constrained low-ram GTK environment, instead of my cushy Plasma desktop.

So we have: Vim, Emacs, BBEdit, textmate, notepad++, SublimeText, Atom, Visual Code, Geany... am I missing any?

adrianN 6y ago

ed is the standard editor.

sgt 6y ago
ed is also relevant if you find yourself on an old Sun box with a corrupted /usr volume. In order to rescue the system you need an editor, and ed always lived in /bin. This happened to me a few years ago (2001 I think).

reddotX 6y ago

micro https://micro-editor.github.io/ https://micro-editor.github.io/

efrecon 6y ago
micro is really good! It installs quickly and provides for just the minimal set of features to be used as a goto editor for small tasks at the terminal.

markstos 6y ago

Yes, most of them.

saagarjha 6y ago

Nano.

hoistbypetard 6y ago

joe, pico, nano, elvis, jedit, acme, gedit, kedit... and those are just the ones that popped into my head within a few seconds. There are legions more.

627467 6y ago

(elementary) Code

Narishma 6y ago

You're missing dozens more, if not hundreds.

hombre_fatal 6y ago
How about just the ones big enough to make it on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors I'm surprised an HN reader could think there were nine text editors and couldn't be bothered to google it.
- victorbstan 6y ago
  It was a rhetorical question alas. Smartaleklike.

petepete 6y ago

Also Kakoune http://kakoune.org/ http://kakoune.org/

brnt 6y ago

Komodo Edit is underappreciated imho: https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/downloads/edit/ https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/downloads/ed...

squarefoot 6y ago

I used MED in the old OS/2 days. It has been ported to Windows since, sadly not to Linux. Not free, both as in beer and speech, but reasonably priced and imo worth taking a look. http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html

dTal 6y ago

Kate. Wikipedia calls it a "basic text editor for the KDE desktop" but it really isn't - as well the usual suspects, it has well-conceived ergonomic features like a minimap, rainbow parens, and smart indentation for a variety of contexts (including Lisp/Scheme!). A real coder's editor. Fond memories of Geany, though, and probably my first choice if I were on some super-constrained low-ram GTK environment, instead of my cushy Plasma desktop.