Fresh view of text editors – command and graphical variations

[Brian MasinickModerator]

I’m here today with Joe-Jupp, using the jmacs variation to write this note.

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I am writing with the Kakoune text editor today. I held down the d key to repeatedly remove and replace text.

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I am writing with the Neovim text editor today.
Edited this line using c$ – change from point to the end of the line.

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I’m here today with Joe-Jupp, using the jpico variation to write this note.

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https://linuxblog.io/50-linux-text-editors/ is one of the sites I cited in my first post of Fresh view of text editors – command and graphical versions. That specific page covers text editors, but the parent site, https://linuxblog.io/ is a very good site for discussing many things about Linux, including text editors, but also discussing things like Tiling Window Managers, Immutable Distros, 90-linux-commands-frequently-used-by-linux-sysadmins and much more.

https://linuxcommunity.io/ is the forum where you can not only locate, but also discuss, many of the articles and topics that are raised. I recommend it.

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I’m now running Doom Emacs, updating the jpico note to write this note.

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I’m now running e3vi, a very light text editor variation of the e3 editor.

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I’m now running Neovim-gtk (nvim-gtk) on my antiX 25 Beta 2 test system.

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I’m now running Doom Emacs today on my antiX 25 Beta 2 test system. There hadn’t been any updates for Doom Emacs for several days. Today quite a few packages within the “Doom” side of the equation had updates; usually Monday is the busy day for updates. Apparently the lead has been celebrating this week and did some updates earlier today. As usual, it’s all good. I noticed that Doom Emacs is the favorite editor of Distro Tube, a.k.a. DT, the guy who produces a lot of intelligent videos on many topics.

I checked some of his OTHER topic areas and someone recently asked him to return to Neovim to show how to configure it. He admitted that he HAD been a Vim user, but for the past 3-4 years he switched to Doom Emacs because it’s a highly refined edition of Emacs that’s more efficient than a previous variation called Spacemacs, and it’s more customizable than Vim or Neovim. He agreed to review Neovim configuration and also admitted that he wasn’t very familiar with the configuration, then proceeded to work through a configuration that clearly demonstrates why the guy is so well respected; he figured it out and shared what he had learned. Impressive video teacher; his stuff is typically found on YouTube (and maybe “DistroTube”, but I don’t know about any DistroTube site *yet*). I guess his real name is Derek Taylor, so DT applies in both ways.

https://www.youtube.com/distrotube

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The Absolute Basics of Vim (It’s Not THAT Hard!) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wyIECjwAio

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I went back to my main antiX 23.2 system and started up “old vi”:
I am writing with the old, original vi text editor today. Edited this line using h to move left, l to move right, i to insert – change from point to the end of the line. This is the “gritter” modification, Version 4.0. All it changes from the early vi is corrections allowing the use of arrow keys without adding line noise characters. The additional versions are to account for builds on newer OS implementations.

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I’m now running Doom Emacs today on my antiX 25 Beta 2 test system.

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[CharlesVMember]

That is an excellent list! I would like to add one to the collection to try out – Zim

While technically an editor for wiki pages, (Desktop Wiki!) I have found this to be indispensable for my work method. I have tried many different GUI text editors, but this one works for me.

The list of features is way too long to post, but it has support for:
– Embedded colored Symbols
– Embedded Images
– external links
– Embedded internal links
– Hierarchical Text files
– Spell check
– “Last Location” (So I can pick up where I left off! )
– Highlighting, Bold, Italic, Headings and more
– Code scripting (keeping code in format blocks)
– File synchronizing
– Some basic markup language
– Quite a bit more!!

And.. its in the repos 🙂

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[Brian MasinickModerator]

Hi Charles!

I did install zim during my journey and I have long been aware of it.

The main reason why I don’t keep it is that it’s not an editor I use often, whereas the others are either small or something that I frequently use.

Glad you mentioned it though because you’re right, it’s a good editor that has a lot of functionality.

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[CharlesVMember]

Hi Brian. And Happy New Year !!

Yes, Zim is “a little more” then just a text editor – but for someone that has at any one time 15 to 30 text files open and needing to be picked / edited etc… its the bomb!

I kept searching for “the best” method of keeping many text files to: todo list, a list for links, Projects (14 all in flux and counting ) plus many other ‘always in text files’ .. and I tried panels to keep track of them, project folders, hierarchies, etc etc.. and several things kept breaking my tries – finding them to open the one I needed, colors!, and in some cases just having the ability to quickly find something in LONG dang text file.

Zim filled that bill for me, and I can even link to other text files I *might* want to open… end even folders!

everything else… its featherpad

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