What is your favorite text editor?

sidetone said:
mcwm, ctwm, cwm are more modern and lightweight
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Sure is cwm more lightweight. Although I like virtual desktops, I do not like the twm extensions,
all have something that disturbs me. I am using till now twm.

And x11/vdesk is a very good idea, but needs an improvement: If one leaves a 'virtual desktop' and returns to it,
one must encounter it as one left it.
 
RetroComputingCollector said:
Vi is absolutely not obsolete! /bin/sh is from the 70s, and I use it constantly!
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RetroComputingCollector said:
I use twm (from the 80s) when I need X, which released in the 80s. When did 10th edition UNIX release, 1989.
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RetroComputingCollector said:
Modern interfaces are optimized for keyboards based on the PS/2 layout from 1987. Just because it's old doesn't make it obsolete. It's still useable on a modern keyboard.
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RetroComputingCollector said:
I'm the person who has a garage that has been converted into a Vintage Computer Museum!
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Other mentions of windowmanagers like TWM, which I'm not going to look for.
That reminds me, there were screenshots of TWM, VTWM, CTWM, CWM, FVWM and more. Former user, Trihexagonal, had a website, where he posted someone else's vintage looking TWM that was colorful. There were other screenshots of WM's like Ratpoison. Forgot what else was there, it was a while ago. Some were taken from the main WM screenshot thread. Some were recreated Thread screenshots-of-bsd-window-managers-for-x11-nonviral-licenses.81505. Xmonad is there, and former ScrotWM screenshot from elsewhere in the forums was reposted there, linked to the original location.

Ranting off topic... back to topic...
 
For me it depends on the task.
For quick changes: ed or ee (or pico or nano if available) .
For larger edits: I like kate, but I also use gedit.
For extensive projects: sublime.
 
I definitely wanted to mean OP, original poster, whom opened this thread.

I don't still get it, who is 7 years old here? Your linked post just gets me to the first post of this thread.

Edit: Oh dang, did you meant that this thread is 7 years old?
 
nxjoseph the term OP *usually* means Original Poster, referring to someone who started a thread. But in this case, it referred to Original Post, not Poster. I'm a native American English speaker and when I first read it, I also thought the meaning was that the original poster was 7 years old, then I remembered thinking this is a REALLY old thread, and realized that it was more likely to be referring to the the post, not poster. I don't know where you're from--your English on these forums is as good as most people coming from the American education system, but it's an easy mistake to make, especially if English is not your first language.
 
editors/vis is good. It's not mentioned, but vis(1) uses the command vise to run, due to a naming conflict with another program. It's a little inconvenient, when "vi" and "vim" are shorter. It has Lua dependencies. It's lightweight, fast, shows the text filename, and is under permissive licenses. Very few past mentions of vis in these forums:
xtremae said:
Another one that hasn't been mentioned is vis.
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clippy.jpg

_martin said:
editors/vim and editors/bvi. I do like ed(1) too
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darryl-philbin.jpg

Darryl Philbin was still looking for the animated paperclip helper for his document software. He was overheard saying, "I believe his name is Clippy."
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editors/kakoune, which kak(1) is the command to run.
 
I still use vi(1)/vim(1)/ (whatever they call it) -- daily. But I also use VS Code, IntelliJ, CLion, etc.

To be honest it drives me crazy when the "co-pilot" is in the other seat :-). I just like to fly the plane as quiet as possible and get my editing done.
 
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