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====== Text Editor ======
Mostly I use [[Geany]], which is a pretty straightforward, but also pretty powerful text editor. It has nice things like //column selection//, //tabs//, and a built in //[[terminal_emulator|terminal emulator]]//. If you're familiar with [[microsoft_windows|Windows]] it's kinda like [[notepadplusplus]].

I guess [[QOwnNotes]] counts too! Which I use a lot for organising notes. I always have it open.

Otherwise I use [[Vim]] (and sometimes [[nano]]) a bit when I'm working in a terminal environment, but I really don't need to take advantage of most of what it does.

I really enjoy learning about interesting Vim features and have romantic ideas about learning [[Emacs]] (especially [[emacs#org-mode]] and [[acme]], but that's more just out of interest than any practical need or want for efficiency.

===== Features =====
These are the features I look for in a text editor:
  ; Find and replace : An obvious feature, but one I use a lot.
  ; Column selection : The ability to select areas of text vertically, as well as the usual horizontal. So if you had a list of numbered items and wanted to select (and maybe delete) just the numbers you can select all of them at once. I didn't even know this existed till someone showed me it in [[Vim]], and now I probably wouldn't use an editor without it.
  
Ones I don't really care about:
  ; Code/tag/whatever completion : The the annoyance at the times it gets in my way outweigh the tiems I find it useful. It takes like less than a second to type things out, so--- I do like it in a shell though!

===== Notes =====

==== Acme ====
  * [[yt>dP1xVpMPn8M|A Tour of the Acme Editor]]

==== Emacs ====

==== Geany ====

==== Helix ====

Terminal-based, contemporary take on a [[Vim]]-like modal editor?

Calling it a 'A post-modern text editor' really bugs me though! BAD JOKE.

  * https://helix-editor.com/

==== Kate ====

==== lines.love ====

[[Plaintext]] + line drawing (stored as json)

  * http://akkartik.name/lines.html

==== Nano ====

==== Notepad++ ====

==== Vim ====

===== See Also =====

  * [[https://www.texteditors.org/]] - A text editor wiki.
    * The [[https://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EditorIndex|EditorIndex]] page has a nice big list of them.

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