Micro seems a cool replacement to nano, but the Ubuntu repo version apparently was compiled in debug mode, so micro ends up creating log files everywhere you run it. Any distro that uses the Ubuntu repo is affected by this.

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Leafpad.

Easy Editor (ee) from the console.

Leafpad

I voted Notepadqq but I also like SETEdit.

But then I don't use it for coding, just for small text documents that don't need formatting. For the little coding I do I use Kwrite.

Hi!
Geany & vim are my favorites.
Leafpad/Featherpad/Mousepad are useful for taking quick notes.
Seetxt (lightning fast) if just reading is enough.

Abiword

Geany

Emacs.

Using Emacs, the need for CLI editor starts to be less obvious. Emacs offers remote editing capability : I edit any file in any machine/user (given ssh access) within my local Emacs.

Abiword is a word processor. It is cumbersome to use it as a “text-editor“ and it does not fall into the category of programs concerned by this poll.

• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=difference...+editor&ia=web
• http://search.jpope.org/search?q=dif...language=en-US

Learned the keyboard navigation from Perfect Writer that came with my CDP XT clone back in the day. My documentation workflow has, for a long time, involved a shell script that creates a skeleton LaTeX file based on the title of the doc and an include file for "make", runs it through 'latex' to create a PDF and, then, launches Emacs naming the new (or existing) ".tex" file, doing the the same for the Okular with the ".pdf" file. Running "make 'blah.pdf' and up-arrow-<return>" in the terminal is all I need to update the Okular display. Little of this requires moving hands from the keyboard.

I've been experimenting with VSCode and a few plugins that support TeX/LaTex files. The new workflow is a little different: it'll update the ".dvi" file automagically (viewable in another VSCode tab) upon saving the ".tex" file. (It doesn't yet create the make include file I'd need for easily making PDFs but that is probably fixable). At his point I'm unsure if that combination is enough to supplant my Emacs-based process.

Now if VSCode ever discovers the beauty of the expression highlighting option for parentheses/brace/bracket matching... (The VSCode's 'Blockman' plugin is interesting but ju-u-ust doesn't quite do it.)

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You didn't include Featherpad. Even though I can't seem to find it for Slackware it's still my fav. In the meantime I use Kate or Mousepad.

Editor wars

Played out right here in this poll..

Predictable results.

I thought I could see how jed has stood its ground in the poll... It is not even there!