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Interesting to note that github page links to a page that says "Sadly it seems like there is no active development on Elvis these days." (which is the same page I ended up on when doing a little research). I've added elvis.
I chose Pluma because I like that text editor a lot (and it's the one that comes with the MATE desktop environment that I use) but for a command-line text editor I prefer nano to the more popular vim and emacs because I just can't understand why the other two have to be so ridiculously complicated (nano allows one to enter text just by typing on the keyboard; the other two require many obscure keypresses and the changing of "modes" before one can even attempt to insert text).
In Emacs you can insert text right away after after starting it. When I look back I think it was one of the reasons I chose Emacs instead of vi when I started using Linux regularly. vi is much popular than Emacs from my experience and even Emacs users should know Vim basics. I gave my vote for Emacs in this poll.
Distribution: M$ Windows / Debian / Ubuntu / DSL / many others
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I prefer nano to the more popular vim and emacs because I just can't understand why the other two have to be so ridiculously complicated
Because they are much more powerful at the expensive of a slight
learning curve. It really isn't hard to hit "i" and start typing
text and hit escape to control the editor. It becomes
second nature pretty quickly
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Originally Posted by jamison20000e
Text is text, editors are slightly more work... unless you use a pencil (and even then?)
Pencil and paper is a lot more work for me. I have a typing monitor that shows that I am peaking at 120 WPM right now.
On the other hand, I am very slow at writing on paper. A text editor is much simpler than pencil and paper in my case
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