So in the various threads I see talk of various tools and markdown parsers. It makes me wonder what do you write in. When the cursor blinks in the terminal what do you type?
Mine break down by purpose:
LibreWriter on Mac and Linux for documents for print or PDF distribution. Handles the old desktop publishing shenanigans and opens pretty much anything I get sent.
Nano happens to be the terminal tool on my boxes for drafting Gemini pages or editing configuration files.
GhostWriter for note taking, writing drafts, punching out markdown for longer Gemini pieces.
LibreOffice Writer for WYSIWYG stuff and things I need to print.
I used to be a Nano user, but I have recently joined the Church of Emacs.
I mess with Obsidian a bit, but not professionally.
Nano or VS Code for server stuff. I did prefer Sublime Text but couldn’t get the SSH tunnelling working… maybe I’ll try again now that I’ve more experience.
I was literally just annoying the Tilde IRC yesterday about text editor workflow for Gemini. Maybe it’s a good excuse to finally get emacs into the old muscle memory.
I used to like VS Code much, but recently I’ve been using my Linux machines more and more and am really digging Apostrophe for GUI-stuff, or plain old vi/vim/nvim on CLI.
Under Windows (Work) definitively VS Code for convenience, on Mac iA Writer.
Gotta look into LibreOffice Writer though as it got a few mentions here.
Sublime Text for most stuff that isn’t basic coding. VScodium for actual coding. LibreOffice when I have to share documents with old-fashioned people.
In my next life I’ll be an Emacs user, just because it will take this present life to get into it. And I love Lisp, btw.
Well, since we’re also mentioning code editors in this thread, I’ll just throw out the fine family of Jetbrains IDEs. I’ve been using it ever since IntelliJ was a java jar that you had to build and run yourself using the jar command line, and I find that they just generally have the IDE thing down for a whole host of languages.
Occasionally if I’m working on scripts or basic “code” like HTML or CSS then I’ll just use VIM to edit it directly.
As with most chooms here, it depends what I’m doing and what box I’m on really.
Windows:
Printed docs and Uni work: MS Office
Config files / scripts: Notepad++
Notes and knowledge: Obsidian
Linux:
Printed docs and Uni work: LibreOffice
Config files / scripts: Nano (or Kate if I’m feeling fancy)
Notes and knowledge: Obsidian
I’ve really started embracing the flexibility of Obsidian for knowledge management and storing my more complex thoughts and ideas. If only there was some kind of neural interface I could use to sync with it.
I’m a big Obsidian user as well, especially for keeping notes synced across devices (although I don’t pay for the Obsidian sync, I’ve setup my own Nextcloud for that).
I’ve also been a long-time SublimeText 3 user, and I find that I don’t usually go too long on a new system without installing it (even though it doesn’t do syncing). I just like the interface and have gotten used to using it, and there are quite a few cases where Obsidian seems a little too heavy. I like Sublime for local notes and editing local files in a graphical way.
Way, waaaaaaaay back in the day I used to use gVim on Windows, but I haven’t actually checked recently to see if that even still exists.
And just as a follow up, I went and downloaded gvim on both my linux and mac machines, so I might be back to using that more regularly for random code/config file edits instead of just standard vim in-terminal.
I would probably go with neovide (neovim alternative to gVim) these days. It runs a lot better on more modern computers as it i can use gpu for rendering etc + neovim is getting developed quite a lot whereas vim is pretty much stalled after Bram died.
I’m running MacVim on my Apple laptops and I’ve never really been one for the “latest and greatest” vim improvements or whatnot. I usually use it command-line anyway, and don’t use the more graphical elements, so I’m not looking for anything tremendously fancy. If I want something fancy to do anything more than quick edits of relatively simple files, I’ll open up something else.
I just like the idea of being able to edit files without locking up my whole terminal window while I do it, and that’s really all I want. Just a personal preference thing.
I use a multitude of editors, depending on the purpose:
For work, I use PhpStorm. JetBrains IDEs are just top-tier with their defaults to get work done quickly.
For anything else, and as a general editor, I tend to use VS Code. This includes frontend work and the like and writing Markdown documents, for my blog for example.
In the terminal, I tend to use (neo)vim.
For visual choices, where available, I use the Ayu Mirage color scheme and my favorite font is Fira Code.
