>hop on minecraft>realise i'd rather nerd out about emacs right nowi really really really want to find a text editor that works well for me.

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

>hop on minecraft
>realise i'd rather nerd out about emacs right now

i really really really want to find a text editor that works well for me. vi is cool but also gosh i need to do stuff thats so messed up

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@coolbean i like nano personally, although i've spent a lot of time using vi lately because i've been using old unix systems a lot

[jded@waf.c00lest-kats-on.ovh]

@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone @coolbean@brain.worm.pink

Personally I see vi as "the panic editor", in the same way you'd think of a panic snack. It's not glamorous, but I'd reluctantly take it over nothing if my system was toast and I needed something to pry it back to life. I like helix and use it when I think to but I very often unconsciously default to nano because it's just the easiest text editor I've seen in a terminal. It's the path of least resistance to use for That One Basic Edit I Need To Make.

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@jded @mjdxp theres micro its kinda ok. i also enjoyed dte for a bit

but yea. i dont really need anything vim or nvim or helix offer (though i would use helix if the fucking steel plugin system thats been in the works for like 4 years now finally got merged oh my fucking god i hate helix about this i dont want to configure it in toml it sucks so fucking bad)

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@jded @coolbean usually vi is the editor i begrudgingly use until i'm able to install nano, but as long as you know A is for append, I is for insert, and X is for delete, escape gets out of input mode, and :wq writes and quits, it's not that bad

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@coolbean @jded a kind of fun editor that's come up lately is "edit", an open source text editor made by microsoft that's basically just notepad but in a terminal. i think they probably developed that just so people smart enough to open a terminal don't have to deal with the new notepad in windows 11 lol

the main issues with it are no plugins, it's made by microsoft, and it's almost certainly completely AI coded, but it's a neat idea i guess

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@mjdxp @jded id argue its pretty solid even. its got ok regex stuff for replacing stuff its got an ok search function like theres really nothing i can point to as being missing and if i do find something i could just write a shell script for it that i can bind in .exrc

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@mjdxp @jded consider dte

[mjdxp@labyrinth.zone]

@coolbean @jded never heard of that one before, there are way too many text editors lol

have you ever heard of "ee" (easy editor)? i think it's only maintained for BSD these days, there's a version of it in the AUR but i don't think it's on any other linux distro. i think it's been around for a long time though

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@mjdxp @jded just looked into this. apparently theres also an ncurses based fork called aee. interesting stuff but im ok with vi. im used to these controls and honestly only becoming more comfortable with them since dropping vim lmao

[coolbean@brain.worm.pink]

@mjdxp @jded vim makes it too comfortable to do things the wrong way while vi really tells you off for using backspace instead of dB n stuff. the jank is strategically placed to make you use the editor correctly yk