Text Editor Preferences

Users discuss their preferred text editors, highlight shortcomings of current ones, recommend alternatives like Vim, Emacs, Acme, and nano, and express skepticism about hype for new editors.

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Sample Comments

laweijfmvo Aug 20, 2024 View on HN

What's your current text editor and what's wrong with it?

issaria Oct 25, 2015 View on HN

It's just a damn editor, try it.

lucasime Jul 12, 2017 View on HN

Would you mind sharing your text editor?

cup-of-tea Mar 9, 2018 View on HN

What do you need a text editor for?

flippyhead May 28, 2012 View on HN

curious as to why this is different/better than so many other editors?

mcguire Oct 21, 2022 View on HN

Have you looked at the Acme editor?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

Solvency Mar 12, 2024 View on HN

Who here uses a "regular" text editor, let's be real

tokyodude Nov 6, 2018 View on HN

so in other words you always just use notepad or nano or some editor with almost no features so that you'll never miss missing features ?

toxik Sep 22, 2023 View on HN

For a text editor? Without a doubt.

turminal Dec 21, 2021 View on HN

Why not just use some other editor?