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?