The rootwork v0.2 blog posted about the author's journey through text editors, from classics such as vi(m) and Emacs to tools I've never heard of. They explain what they use the editors for and why.
going down the rabbit hole of syntax highlighting.. ..i made a Mousepad text editor generic-config.lang syntax plugin for highlighting files not supported by other syntax plugins, like i3/conf, i3status.conf, dunstrc, and other conf/config-type files.. ..i also made an xresources.lang syntax plugin for highlighting Xresources/Xdefaults files
Need help ASAP with finding a text editor for Bash.
So far all of the following text editors are unable to properly syntax highlight Bash herestrings:
Vim
Neovim
Nano
Kate
IntelliJ IDEA
Visual Studio Code
I'm at a loss. Even Vim isn't up to the task. I don't have the time or brainpower right now to learn Emacs. If anyone knows a text editor that can highlight Bash herestrings right, please ping me!
Motherfuckers will spend hours of their life tweaking and fixing their vim config just to get the same functionality as a fresh VSCode install. Get a real job.
「 My goal was to find a distraction-free text editor or word processor that would work on Linux. This was several years ago, and the selection was not that extensive, even though the distraction-free trend was starting to gain momentum 」
Fix a regression: the position in the previous session is now restored correctly in cloned document.
Fix a regression: customized extension in Style Configurator is now saved correctly.
Add an ability (disableLineCopyCutDelete.xml) to disable line copy/cut/delete when no selection is made and also add back Shift-DEL & Ctrl-INS shortcuts.
Add an ability (noColumnToMultiSelect.xml) to disable column mode to multi-select mode.
Fix deleting in column mode also delete an unexpected EOL.
Fix hidden results of long lines for Search results with “Find in…” commands.
Enhance Search-results by showing search options for “Find in…” commands.
Fix an issue: replacements are no longer duplicated (the 2nd time in cloned document) for “Replace in Opened Docs”.
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Anyone still using Sublime Text? The InteliJ ones? What are other alternatives in these times? I still didn't get over the fuckery microsoft did with atom. #ide#texteditor#dev
Was looking into understand why everyone talks about neovim instead of vim and found myself trying Helix and … wow out of the box I learned more how to use a vim-like editor than in one year on vim ???
Any #syncthing powerusers here? I am looking for a solution how to sync only specific party of my local #music library to my mobile device without creating a parallel file structure, aka having all those files two times on my local disk. Any suggestions?
@proactiveservices Hey I still didn't made the change, but now checked again your suggestion and just understood, that basically I control what is written on mobile device only through the ignore patterns.
But how do I edit those ignore patterns for #android device, seems pretty tedious esp. with #syncthing requiring some kind of #texteditor for that...?
I’ve maintained a branch of the old micro-emacs (not GNU emacs) for decades. And by “maintained” I really mean “mostly kept working”. It’s a scrappy little editor from the eighties(!) and the “s” in scrappy is silent.
The version I have grown accustomed to isn’t even the most recent version of microemacs, it’s a offshoot from uemacs 3.9 that was maintained by Petri Kutvonen at Helsinki University because it was portable and supported DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix.
Over the decades, I’ve “enhached” that thing to actually mostly understand UTF-8, and increased some internal limits, but it’s mostly the same thing that I used in the early nineties.
Anyway.
I don’t love the fact that it’s a very limited text editor. I’d like syntax highlighting etc. But my fingers are absolutely hardcoded to it, and I am not in the least interested in something that makes me switch away from those (much less start using a mouse to move around etc).
Which is just a very long way to say: “Does anybody know of some slightly more modern GUI editor that actually has good support for really changing keybindings”.
And I mean really configurable. As in “I can make ESC-J auto-justify text, and ESC-Z be ‘exit-and-save, and ^X^C will exit without saving”. Not some half-way state where “sure, you can make ^X exit, but no, you can’t make ^X or ESC act as Alt / Meta keys for other keys?
And yes, I know one answer is “teach your fingers new ways”. But my micro-emacs works just fine, and so it really isn’t worth it to me.
And please - don’t even bother replying with “Xyz is a great editor” unless you know and can show exactly how to rebind a key sequence like that ^X^C. I don’t use nearly all the uemacs keybindings, but I use an odd set of them.
I’d rather maintain just a keybinding file than a whole scrappy editor.
Edit: clearly I should have specified that I’m not interested in yet another “runs in a terminal” editor, or some even older editor (ie “real” emacs, or vim) that just has had more lipstick applied over the years.
Bump: Two GUI editors come to mind: Tea and Geany.
I think TEA is about as close to your wish as you are going to get. TEA will likely do 95% of your wishes except exit+save and ESC key in sequences. It is hackable and readable Qt/C++ so you can patch and push with ease.
"TEA is a C++, Qt(4,5,6) text editor with the hundreds of features for Linux, *BSD, Mac, Windows, OS/2 and Haiku."
TEA text editor has endless configuration options including all the key mappings that allows custom setting of everything in the KEYBOARD tab as shown in the screenshot. Please note that the quirky monspace font is not the default TEA setting but from my own custom QT settings. You can apply any font you wish to the interface.
If you want to modify hotkeys via source code you would use Qt::QAction in tea.cpp in the repo. I'm not a Qt/C++ programmer but the source syntax is obvious and I have hacked other Qt interfaces to my liking with no problems.
One rough edge I found is that if the application is already open, passing a file via command line will not open it. I could not find any other UX bugs in it.