Name your editor!

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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.

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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.

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Vim for general text editing, sometimes Sublime Text, and Obsidian for blog and web stuff.

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Obsidian for writing and note-taking.

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.

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I really used to like Atom, so I’m a fan of VSCode, which, I wish I liked something cooler :rofl:

nano for cli forever though, I find vim too confusing (probably because I didn’t grow up with things like it.)

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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.

Hi btw, long-time-lurker here. :smiley:

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A high modded vim for 90% (coding, blog, etc.) 10% Obsidian for notes and knowledge base.

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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.

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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.

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