ed is a truly wonderful editor indeed!

some distros ship kate, and that's a super good pick for code editing

Yeah no thanks. Linting, formatting, LSP integration, Treesitter,... are just kind of essential for programming work. And the advantage of nvim/emacs/... is that you can bend them to your will and preferences.

If you just want to edit some config files, sure, use literally anything. But I need something proper for work, and if I already set all of that up, might as well use it for the config files, too.

Fake news. Emacs is the only text editor non-heathens and heathens should be using.

I did this for the past 3 years. At some point I just got curious what all the hype is about, so I installed emacs and slowly started to use it. Now I am at a point, where Im getting comfortable around emacs and actually start to enjoy its features.

Befor I usually used nano, since I mostly edited my text files from within my terminal.

Gedit is very nice, and very versatile

No (I already somewhat learned Emacs, I ain't gonna learn something new)

nvim

ftfy

The vim key bindings are a lot better.

A wild guess.. Magik/Smallworld? That was it for me.

I guess we are more on the vim side in the editor wars, but only against our shared foes

I decided to give it an honest try after somebody mentioned it on lemmy a few weeks ago.

... I really like it.

I still pop open Theia if I'm just doing some research that has me hopping all around, or sometimes on a separate monitor for a referenced project/library associated with my work, but I do the actual work in Helix.

There are dozens of us!

I use kakoune btw

my fedora is bigger and my neckbeard is longer :D

I like neovim for personal projects in Rust, Lua and JS but for collaborative work in Java it's not really usable for me. Database access, merging big PRs, unit testing tools, debugging, integrations with Spring... I always saw too many feature gaps to even try.

this week i started using kickstart [modular], but i'm definitely considering going back to nvchad

All time classic.

Im not going crazy just playing around a bit, remapping some keybindings and so on. It is in fact kind of fun.

(I actually just tried jumping to the first line of my comment while writing it using C-a, which is the default keybind for this in emacs. I think its getting worse. Aaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhhh)

Good ol’ C-x M-c M-butterfly

... Do people open docx and odt files in VIM? Fuckin why?

It's unfortunate that your experience with C wasn't a good one. imo it's a cool language, even if it may be overshadowed by languages that are more intuitive to use.

Org-mode, which is made for Emacs, has built-in spreadsheets.

Pro tip: use Evil.

Another pro tip: if on Windows or Linux, remap alt to ctrl and win/menu to alt.

I think the beauty of Emacs is not that it gives you a text editor, but that it gives you a lisp environment.

Nano os shit. Micro is fine. Vim is good. Helix is peak.

I used neovim for a while, tried NVChad and it just felt off. Ended up switching to lunarvim and I've been really happy with it.

May I recommend Helix? It’s a modal editor like vim, but has a better out of the box experience, better discoverability for commands, and uses an easier to understand select->command syntax.

WARNING: buffer has changed, add ! To quit without saving!

This is also my goal! ...since 2020.

I love vim/nvim but I've gotten used to using VIM more as a text editor then an IDE. Writing a script? Taking notes? Maybe even a small program? VIM all the way. Working on a big project that needs an LSP? Either spend the next 20 hours fucking with your VIM config and 20 plugins to get basic functionality... Or just open VSCode and install one plugin

Heres to hoping since NVIM 0.11 with their LSP overhaul I can finnally make the full switch

My most used commands are also just the classics

cw - delete the next word amd enter insert mode

dd - delete line

gg - go to first line

G - go to last line

:s/searchphrase/replacephrase - search and replace

And a couple of visual mode commands do cut and paste blocks or comment out blocks of code

ctrl+n while typing activates the builtin autocomplete.

I hope that you use the motion commands at least, because that's the whole point of the separate modes. If not, you should look them up and add some of them to your workflow little by little.

The most basic ones are wand b to go a word forward or back; 0 and $ to go to the start or end of the line, or g0 and g$ for the visual line. f to jump to a particular letter forward. { and } to go to the start/end of the paragraph.

V is useful for selecting whole lines. ctrl-v for block selection (or ctrl-q, depending on your setup).

% can jump or select to the matching parenthesis or brace. With matchit installed, it also jumps to matching keywords like end or HTML tags.

gc comments out the selection (or uncomments it). Works with motions too, like gcc.

For pasting, you should use p in the normal mode. Also P pastes before the cursor. This is useful for moving text around by deleting it with something like daw, jumping elsewhere, and doing p.

And of course, the regex replacement with :s// is very useful if you have more than a few lines that need approximately the same change.

If editor-specific binds count, then g-. is my favorite in Zed.

You mean Vim?

If i just want to edit a single file I usually just use nano since it gets used right in the command line and doesnt open a seperate window, but if I want to edit multiple files emacs is very nice, since I dont have to take my hands of the keyboard.

How do you not? A text editor and a browser are the two programs that I use the most, both for work and at home. And while most browsers have pretty similar UXs nowadays, the different editors are vastly different. Helix, EMacs, vim, StyledEdit, Notepad++, Kate, etc all have radically different approaches to basically everything.

I think its Not to wird to have an opinion on the tools you use. Does it mean, that I Am an elitist who tells everyone, that they should use Emacs just because I like it? No!