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Text Editor of the Year

Always an interesting poll.

--jeremy

May I suggest another poll option?

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan (Post 6073775)

May I suggest another poll option?

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

Added.

--jeremy

Obviously it is vi, as it is on every distro..... :D

nowadays I prefer gvim, which has tabs. Others use PyCharm.

The one which I use on most systems was (a version of) Acme in 2019.
Let's see what 2020 will bring.

Nano is my favorite but I've started using Xed for gui editor!

Depends what you want it for

I use Kate for writing and editing plain text that doesn't need formatting, or I don't want formatted. Kate has finally got a word count back, which was always one of its main virtues, for me anyway. Many of the most popular editors are great for coding, which is not what I need these days.

geany.

Very lightweight yet fairly advanced for a text editor (calls itself a lightweight IDE).
Syntax highlighting with loads of color schemes available (yes, that's important).
Tweakable.

I ticked vim but I mostly use gvim. It's the first thing I always install on a new desktop.

On a Linux box a text editor is one of the most used softwares.

Syntax highlighting, line numbering, and coloring is very nice to have if you do your bash, python, html, C, fltk in one. I like geany. I don't need another IDE with it.

Code:

pacman -Si geany

...

Name            : geany

Version        : 1.36-1

Description    : Fast and lightweight IDE

Architecture    : x86_64

URL            : https://www.geany.org/

...

Depends On      : gtk3  python

Optional Deps  : geany-plugins: additional functionality

                  vte3: embedded terminal support

...

Download Size  : 3.38 MiB

Installed Size  : 13.14 MiB

...

Leafpad

Code:

pacman -Si leafpad

...

Name            : leafpad

Version        : 0.8.18.1-8

Description    : A notepad clone for GTK+ 2.0

Architecture    : x86_64

URL            : http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/

...

Depends On      : gtk2

...

Download Size  : 81.05 KiB

Installed Size  : 310.00 KiB

...

gedit

Code:

pacman -Si gedit

...

Name            : gedit

Version        : 3.34.0-1

Description    : GNOME Text Editor

Architecture    : x86_64

URL            : https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit

...

Depends On      : gtksourceview4  gsettings-desktop-schemas  libpeas  gspell

                  python-gobject  dconf

Optional Deps  : gedit-plugins: Additional features

...

Download Size  : 2030.12 KiB

Installed Size  : 14708.00 KiB

...

gvim

Code:

pacman -Si gvim

...

Name            : gvim

Version        : 8.1.2102-1

Description    : Vi Improved, a highly configurable, improved version of the vi text

                  editor (with advanced features, such as a GUI)

Architecture    : x86_64

URL            : https://www.vim.org

...

Provides        : vim=8.1.2102-1  xxd

Depends On      : vim-runtime=8.1.2102-1  gpm  libxt  gtk3  glibc  libgcrypt  pcre

                  zlib  libffi  libcanberra

Optional Deps  : python2: Python 2 language support

                  python: Python 3 language support

                  ruby: Ruby language support

                  lua: Lua language support

                  perl: Perl language support

                  tcl: Tcl language support

...

Download Size  : 1621.39 KiB

Installed Size  : 3975.00 KiB

kate

Code:

pacman -Si kate

...

Name            : kate

Version        : 19.08.2-1

Description    : Advanced Text Editor

Architecture    : x86_64

URL            : https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kate/

...

Groups          : kde-applications  kdebase

...

Depends On      : knewstuff  ktexteditor  threadweaver  kactivities

                  hicolor-icon-theme

Optional Deps  : konsole: open a terminal in Kate

...

Download Size  : 6.45 MiB

Installed Size  : 20.82 MiB

...

PyCharm

Code:

pacman -Si pycharm-community-edition

...

Name            : pycharm-community-edition

Version        : 2019.2.3-1

Description    : Python IDE for Professional Developers

Architecture    : x86_64

URL            : https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

...

Depends On      : giflib  glib2  java-runtime=11  python  sh  ttf-font

Optional Deps  : ipython2: IPython integration for Python 2

                  ipython: IPython integration for Python 3

                  python2: Python 2 support

...

Download Size  : 133.19 MiB

Installed Size  : 345.91 MiB

...

I used Vim for a very long time, perhaps 15 years. That would be my vote, and has been in the past. I switched, I can still pick up Vim in a second. I still enjoy it. A year ago or a little longer, I learned about org-mode on Emacs. It changed my life. It was exactly what I'd been trying to to since the beginning in the early eighties. I will slowly hone Emacs to my needs. If I ever change back (for now I'm happy to be productive instead of cobbling a solution together myself), it has to work as seamlessly for me as org-mode has.