What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?
What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?
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I'll give you six that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
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simandvis, both of which focus on combiningvimmotions with structural regular expressions as used in... -
samandacmefrom Plan 9, both of which are included in Plan 9 from User Space (akaplan9port).samalso has a modified/expanded version in the form ofdeadpixi/sam, whileacmehas spin-offs like a port to Go and a standalone version. -
mg, one of the three default text editors included with OpenBSD (the others beingvianded). -
sandy, the abandoned suckless text editor. It usesdmenuand is fun to mess with for shits and giggles.
I am trying to help with vis and it is a lot of fun to use. Aside from things where I really need neovim (because of large plugins), I use vis every day. Sam and ACME (and whole Plan9 for that matter) have the biggest problem with being too GUI oriented. They are from times when we discovered a mouse and then decided we need to use it for everything. Thirty years down the line we know better: we don’t.
I think you mean st instead of dmenu here
...no, I definitely meant
dmenu.sandyhas keybindings that bring up (by default) variousdmenuprompts as a substitute for the usual "command mode".:orM-xto bring up a command prompt,C-\for a "pipe to" prompt,M-\for asedprompt... you get the idea.stis just the suckless terminal emulator;sandycan be run from any terminal emulator.
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