Text Editor of the Year

jeremy · 01-02-2020, 07:59 PM

Always an interesting poll.

--jeremy

dugan · 01-02-2020, 09:24 PM

May I suggest another poll option?

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

jeremy · 01-02-2020, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dugan

May I suggest another poll option?

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

Added.

--jeremy

fatmac · 01-03-2020, 04:27 AM

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

pan64 · 01-03-2020, 04:33 AM

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

YesItsMe · 01-03-2020, 07:45 AM

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

Lysander666 · 01-04-2020, 03:40 PM

Always Leafpad.

FredGSanford · 01-04-2020, 09:36 PM

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

Zelator · 01-05-2020, 12:30 AM

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.

ondoho · 01-05-2020, 04:23 AM

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.

hazel · 01-05-2020, 07:45 AM

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

teckk · 01-05-2020, 08:36 AM

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
...

Geist · 01-05-2020, 09:46 AM

vim all the way~

jerril · 01-06-2020, 11:46 AM

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.

v32itas · 01-06-2020, 05:29 PM