linuxmemes

The first step of any linux install is installing vim/neovim. Anything else is sheer apostasy

Kate

Me no love nano, me brain only can use nano.

E macs scary. vim no let me leave :(

vim, because that's how my father taught me, and how his father's father taught him.

Choose vim! The generational trauma of file editors!

As a new Linux user who spends as little time editing config files as I can manage, I'm fine with nano.

It's worse than the picture depicts. It's not just the lovers, the elitists and the evangelists, it's the sheer range of choice too, beyond the loudest.

Let the editor holy wars (re)start!

Vim is the one true editor, and the heretics who claim otherwise shall be driven forth and sent to ~~re-education~~ linux boot camps to learn the true ways.

ed is the standard editor

I use Micro in the terminal - it offers good desktop integration with keys similar to DEs like ctrl+v and ctrl+c, rather than being terminal centred (e.g. Ctrl+C is usually the standard interrupt/abort key in the terminal). So it's nice if you're mainly in a desktop but pop in to a terminal occasionally and have the DE muscle memory.

I use Kate outside the terminal.

But honestly, which text editor you use depends on what you use it for and how often. Vim is very powerful and allows very fast use & productivity if you learn it properly and probably very useful if you spend a lot of time in the terminal or TTY, but Nano is more straight forward and easy for a lot of basic terminal based work.

Why would you need a text editor when you can just do cat > file ?

smh

First choice: use a normal damn GUI text editor

Second choice: Nano. It's simple and comprehensible, and a best CLI choice for newbies. You can then turn to vim, emacs, or whatever, but don't make your life harder from the get-go

People suggesting to start with Vim are probably the same ones pushing for Arch as a first distro. C'mon.

My requirements for a text editor:

• it displays 'A' when I press the 'A' key
• doesn't require more than 1 minute of learning to use it

Bonus points if it comes pre installed.

I'm a emacs guy, but nano should be the only one installed by default. The default editor should tell you how to exit!

I install micro. I intend to use micro. My fingers type nano anyways. Every time.

vi because it's everywhere, even on servers where packages can't be downloaded or shouldn't be installed.

Nano because I'm too lazy to learn vim or emacs. I want something that works and not something that operates like cheat codes in old video games.

Helix is really rad

None of them. I need a texteditor, not an unusable wannabe miracle machine for which you need documentation and a diploma just to exit it.

I don't understand the issue. I've been using Linux less than a year but I started with a KDE desktop so it came with Kate, Kwrite, and Nano. I've literally never needed anything else.

I've tried out a couple IDEs like Codium and Geany, but I don't see what they offer that Kate doesn't.

I've also at least opened Emacs but I didn't get much further than that.

I use Nano in the terminal when I'm editing config files because I read somewhere that it's safer.

I installed Neovim and Micro but I haven't explored those at all yet. I don't have any problems with Nano.

I tried Pluma but I really only use it for dumping lists.

For the most part I use Kate, but for simpler notes I use Kwrite just to keep them in separate spots on my launcher.

I don't see why this is such an issue though.

ed is the standard text editor.

Nothing wrong with Kate. I know how to use Nano because it's an essential skill for when your machine boots into emergency mode, but aside from that editing text from the terminal is lunacy.

pico!

But nano will do ;)

Helix?

Even worse: I like GUI editors like Kate/KDevelop/Geany/VSCode. Unless it is on a server obviously.