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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What's your current text editor and what's wrong with it?
It's just a damn editor, try it.
Would you mind sharing your text editor?
What do you need a text editor for?
curious as to why this is different/better than so many other editors?
Have you looked at the Acme editor?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)
Who here uses a "regular" text editor, let's be real
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 ?
For a text editor? Without a doubt.
Why not just use some other editor?