• mosspiglet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago
    • Fave: vim
    • First: vi
    • Future: vim
    • Honourable Mention: helix
    • Loathed: win 11 notepad
    • Current: vim
    • Longest: vim
  • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Just realised… mcedit’s more accurately the longest used, at least in terms since first used [maybe ~ unsure], and would (and do) still use. But then, if longest used is counting actual time used… nnnnnnothing comes close to emacs. No other text editor serves also as my irc client, organiser, therapist, games system, rss feed, and potentially oh so much more, like email client, 3D modeler (no, seriously), video editor, data analysis, file management, graph generation, slide-show presentations, astrophysics stuff, drone piloting, publishing preparations, printer operation, 3D printer operation, databases, finance and transaction handling, accounting, audio editing, screensaver, web browser, even potentially replacing my terminal multiplexor and even my window manager.

    But I did start using mcedit a clear decade before emacs. … I probably launched each for the first time, around the same time late 2003 to early 2004, but didn’t start using emacs (at all) until 2014, whereas mcedit soon became a fave (especially in the midst of the nano’ites thinking they had won their category of text editor, yet few of them seemed to have even heard of mcedit).

    … Ah well, even though it’s still legit, if I had thought of it at that time, I could have wrangled mcedit into longest, leaving room for something else as honourable mention. … Maybe neovim. Maybe leafpad.

  • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
    2·
    7 days ago

    Fave: Emacs
    First: notepad
    Future: Emacs (maybe vim)
    Honorable mention: Emacs (orgmode), sed
    Loathed: Nano (I can’t stand using it any longer after being used to emacs)
    Current: Emacs
    Longest: Emacs

  • expr@programming.dev
    35·
    9 days ago

    Fave: vim First: vim Future: vim Honorable mention: vim Loathed: anything other than vim Current: vim Longest: believe it or not, vim

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
    32·
    9 days ago

    Fave: vim
    First: notepad.exe
    Future: vim
    Honorable mention: vi
    Loathed: Everything but (neo)?vim?
    Current: vim
    Longest: vim

  • bold_omi@lemmy.today
    9·
    6 days ago
    • Favorite: Helix
    • Future: Helix
    • Current: Helix
    • Loathed: Anything with JavaScript, a mandated - - GUI, or non-modal keybinds
    • First: Vim
    • Longest: Helix
    • Honorable mention: Kakoune
    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      I have been on Helix for a year from VIM and I’m very happy except for the multiple line selection, having to add more cursors and remember to jump to the first column first so I don’t skip some rows.

      • bold_omi@lemmy.today
        4·
        8 days ago

        Maybe. Are you a Rust programmer who loathes genAI?

        P.S. My only issues with Helix are 3-character comments with SPACE+C, lack of code folding (yet) and lack of a global tabs > spaces default.

        • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
          24·
          7 days ago

          No, and a qualified no.

          Helix is missing a lot of features I want. Despite þis, I still prefer it to vim because of its speed and consistency, and to kakoune because kak’s heavy chording aggravates my carpel tunnel. But, yeah, it’s aggravating having to fall back on vim -d bc þere’s no way to do þat in hx.

          • bold_omi@lemmy.today
            1·
            6 days ago

            You can get pretty close with window splitting. A diff view is likely to be added eventually, though.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    91·
    9 days ago

    I’m a typewriter guy.

    I love my olivetti Linea90 as a work horse, for leisure typing it is either an olivetti Lettera DL or a Princess 300.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    7·
    9 days ago

    Fave: I don’t really do favourites, but I tend to reach for nano because it’s usually installed and I prefer it to the vi family.

    First: The 8-bit Commodore screen editor was hard to beat for its time, so let’s go with that, even though I probably used the BBC Micro arrow / copy system before that.

    Future: Heck if I know. I installed micro but haven’t touched it yet. Maybe one day I’ll get around to that. Or an IDE. So probably nano.

    Honourable mention: An editor I worked on for a project once. There’s something to be said for editing an editor’s source code inside itself.

    Loathed: ed / edlin

    Current: Let’s go with nano again, but I do lot more typing on command lines and in browser text boxes, like this one.

    Longest: If pico counts as proto-nano, then definitely nano. Been using that since the '90s.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      First: The 8-bit Commodore screen editor was hard to beat for its time, so let’s go with that, even though I probably used the BBC Micro arrow / copy system before that.

      Yep. I couldn’t remember the names of the text editors I used on those old 4-bit green radiation-gun computers of the 70s-80s… so I just went with first after becoming a windows refugee. What a great blast from the past though, thinking of my early days, with commodores, spectrums, bbc-micros, and whatever that one we had from before that was called. M-mm-mmmm. Joyous nostalgia kick. :)

      There’s something to be said for editing an editor’s source code inside itself.

      True that. :)

  • Cheebus@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 days ago
    • Neovim for terminal
    • Sublime for GUI
    • Word for when i’m feeling masochistic (jk)
    • Notepad++ was first
  • lemonhead2@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 days ago

    interesting how things turned out today. no one will spend time configuring an editor anymore, and just use a pre-configured, possibly web based, default.

    I started with ms dos edit/borland. moved to Linux and emacs/xemacs shortly after (this was when the two editors were split).

    got emacs pinky and moved to vim. stayed with vim for 15+ years. finally moved to neovim (because of the Firefox extension firenvim)

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      no one will spend time configuring an editor anymore, and just use a pre-configured, possibly web based, default.

      Well call me “no one”.

      wc ~/.emacs.d/config.org
4831  21376 200536 /home/digit/.emacs.d/config.org

      (… not to mention having written my own, in fish, since I know fish better than I know elisp (despite using them for around the same length of time), with the goal of it being simple to extend and reconfigure for fish users (like me, wanting a better handle on my text editor reconfiguring and learning how to better use the configuration language.)).

      emacs pinky

      setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

      Save you, it can. ;)

      Though, then there’s also evil-mode, and spacemacs and doomemacs, which I think both have evil-mode on by default.

      • lemonhead2@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        I’d swapped control and capslock almost immediately and still got emacs pinky. when I found vim, I decided I liked it more than the escape meta alt control shift madness, and quit. the vim script was better than elisp, but not great. neovim lua is better than vim script, but still a little lacking.

        i too have thousands of lines in my neovim config… but if I was starting today, the point and click editors are adequate enough that I might not invest the time.

        that said, I just added two plugins into my config today 🙃🙃

  • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 days ago

    Fave: micro
    First: nano
    Future: eMacs? Honorable mention: helix Loathed: vim/neovim Current: micro Longest: micro

    I’m a micro fanboy.

  • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    I’m honestly torn between Nvim and Emacs right now. I’m a long time vim user and been on Nvim for 10+ years. The rate at which they change config methods kinda drives me nuts. The change from vimscript to lua, and then a new mixup of lua to another syntax of lua, NEED TO CHANGE THE LUA!!! It’s too much. I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while because the plugin ecosystem moves lightning fast. Now most of the time I feel like I’m using a half baked config solution even on a new from scratch setup.

    Emacs feels like a breath of fresh air. I’m still working out the kinks but it feels like it just works when I tell it to do something. I’m not using evil mode. I dove head first into vanilla and it’s been really nice. ELisp is wild. I have no fucking clue what I’m doing with it, but it all seems to be working. The fact that it took me 3 days to get my Emacs setup to where I am with Nvim and beyond was a great start to the switch. I’m really enjoying Emacs and there’s definitely a past version of me going ‘What the fuck’ right now.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I really did a yearly config rewrite for a while

      In my experience, which seems to be identical experience of many, including the one who got me into emacs, emacs config re-writes tend happen every decade, rather than every year. Nice and peaceful like that. :)

      • JakoJakoJako13@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        That’s refreshing to hear. I really got tired of messing with my nvim config all the time. I’m in that state with Emacs right now but I hope that once I’m done it’s a set it and forget it experience.

        • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          I hope that once I’m done it’s a set it and forget it experience.

          While that’s possible, there are also so many things to entice one into adding more.

          But that’s still much more pleasant a blessing, making changes because of something you want, rather than because of something the developers did.

          Though, as for “done”… many emacs users [especially those who got really infected with emacs] may tell you it’s never done. ;)

          It’s plausible though.

          Some say the default config is, for them, done.

  • HouseWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Fave: Kate

    First: GNOME Text Editor

    Future: Kate

    Honourable Mention: Notepadqq used it for a after when I first switched from Windows where I used Notepad++

    Least Liked: Vim

    Current: Kate

    Most used: Kate

    For anything CLI related I use Micro.