• mosspiglet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago
    • Fave: vim
    • First: vi
    • Future: vim
    • Honourable Mention: helix
    • Loathed: win 11 notepad
    • Current: vim
    • Longest: vim
  • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    Just realised… mcedit’s more accurately the longest used, at least in terms since first used [maybe ~ unsure], and would (and do) still use. But then, if longest used is counting actual time used… nnnnnnothing comes close to emacs. No other text editor serves also as my irc client, organiser, therapist, games system, rss feed, and potentially oh so much more, like email client, 3D modeler (no, seriously), video editor, data analysis, file management, graph generation, slide-show presentations, astrophysics stuff, drone piloting, publishing preparations, printer operation, 3D printer operation, databases, finance and transaction handling, accounting, audio editing, screensaver, web browser, even potentially replacing my terminal multiplexor and even my window manager.

    But I did start using mcedit a clear decade before emacs. … I probably launched each for the first time, around the same time late 2003 to early 2004, but didn’t start using emacs (at all) until 2014, whereas mcedit soon became a fave (especially in the midst of the nano’ites thinking they had won their category of text editor, yet few of them seemed to have even heard of mcedit).

    … Ah well, even though it’s still legit, if I had thought of it at that time, I could have wrangled mcedit into longest, leaving room for something else as honourable mention. … Maybe neovim. Maybe leafpad.

  • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
    2·
    6 days ago

    Fave: Emacs
    First: notepad
    Future: Emacs (maybe vim)
    Honorable mention: Emacs (orgmode), sed
    Loathed: Nano (I can’t stand using it any longer after being used to emacs)
    Current: Emacs
    Longest: Emacs

  • HumbleBragger@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Not a Dev but I used VScode and codium for a while trying to learn bow to program. Definitely more than it needs to be. Sublime was the longest Since I haven’t seen it here yet, honorable mention to Geany. Cool lightweight editor I’ve used a couple times.

  • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago
    • Fave: helix
    • First: PS-Pad
    • Future: helix
    • Honourable Mention: GNU Emacs
    • Loathed: BlueJay? (Editor for Java)
    • Current: helix
    • Longest: VS code
  • Belsedar@slrpnk.net
    1·
    6 days ago

    Micro, if I can reasonably get it onto a system, it will stay there. I don’t really need anything more to tweak configs

  • expr@programming.dev
    37·
    8 days ago

    Fave: vim First: vim Future: vim Honorable mention: vim Loathed: anything other than vim Current: vim Longest: believe it or not, vim

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
    35·
    8 days ago

    Fave: vim
    First: notepad.exe
    Future: vim
    Honorable mention: vi
    Loathed: Everything but (neo)?vim?
    Current: vim
    Longest: vim

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    242·
    8 days ago

    writing a text editor in a shell language is certainly… a choice. also this kinda feels like an ad for your own project.

    anyway i’ve gone notepad, np++, eclipse, sublime, atom, vim, nvim, back to vim, then vis, then vim again, and now helix, which i’ll hopefully stick with a while. worst has gotta be the GMod Wiremod Expression editor. honorable mention to acme.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtfOPEnglish
      13·
      8 days ago

      Don’t use fin. It, like all my stuff, is scruffy.

      It’s just honestly my fave (~ Would be weirder if I were writing it masochistically to not be my fave). Wrote it with intention of using it in the future.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        8·
        8 days ago

        as long as you’re having fun and learning. although i don’t know if it’s dogfooding if you’re a one-man band; seems more like just cooking.

  • bold_omi@lemmy.today
    9·
    4 days ago
    • Favorite: Helix
    • Future: Helix
    • Current: Helix
    • Loathed: Anything with JavaScript, a mandated - - GUI, or non-modal keybinds
    • First: Vim
    • Longest: Helix
    • Honorable mention: Kakoune
      • bold_omi@lemmy.today
        41·
        6 days ago

        Maybe. Are you a Rust programmer who loathes genAI?

        P.S. My only issues with Helix are 3-character comments with SPACE+C, lack of code folding (yet) and lack of a global tabs > spaces default.

        • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
          24·
          5 days ago

          No, and a qualified no.

          Helix is missing a lot of features I want. Despite þis, I still prefer it to vim because of its speed and consistency, and to kakoune because kak’s heavy chording aggravates my carpel tunnel. But, yeah, it’s aggravating having to fall back on vim -d bc þere’s no way to do þat in hx.

          • bold_omi@lemmy.today
            1·
            4 days ago

            You can get pretty close with window splitting. A diff view is likely to be added eventually, though.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      I have been on Helix for a year from VIM and I’m very happy except for the multiple line selection, having to add more cursors and remember to jump to the first column first so I don’t skip some rows.

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    91·
    8 days ago

    I’m a typewriter guy.

    I love my olivetti Linea90 as a work horse, for leisure typing it is either an olivetti Lettera DL or a Princess 300.