Sublime Text is a commercial text editor. I used it during university, but it honestly just feels weird now to consider daily-driving a non-free (as in freedom

Sublime Text is a commercial text editor. I used it during university, but it honestly just feels weird now to consider daily-driving a non-free (as in freedom and free beer, honesty mainly free beer) text editor when there are so many free alternatives out there. I don’t understand why someone would use Sublime Text instead of VSCode today. I got into Emacs because it seemed like a neat thing to do. I don’t proselytise people to Emacs because learning it is a time-sink and the return you get is only realised if you really embrace a fully text-based interface, which can be hard and sometimes feels pointless. That being said, it is my IDE (lsp-mode) for all languages and my git client (magit), and while I have not been able to make effective use of most other features in Emacs (org-mode, email clients, eww, etc.), these two things alone pay for themselves in spades. The learning curve is real, but the idea that you have to spend ages configuring your text editor is only true if you don’t use one of the many excellent distributions out there like Spacemacs, Doom, and Prelude. I also use Vi keybindings (evil) because Vim is ubiquitous, and all the things people said about modal editing being a boon to productivity and helping you prevent RSI (which Emacs keybindings did not help with at all). I think Nano is awesome, but I never made it my go-to because it didn’t come installed by default on the old RHEL VMs I managed, while an old version it Vim did - go figure.