neovim through nvf on NixOS. I'm not even a power user, I just had a shit mouse in college and didn't want to use it and now I'm hundreds of lines of Lua too deep to go back. This is my life now.

Mostly Neovim and Nano. Tried out ed in the UNIX4 tape that got recovered, was strange but fun to see where sed, grep and other commands got their name from.

GUI is still good old Sublime Text, but I almost completely switched to terminal based editors, I guess because of the nice work flow.

Neovim + LazyVim

Kate 👀

Neovim for terminal but often I use kate for gui because I still don't find vim commands more efficient

vis. Only used it for editing configs and stuff though, not programming.

Micro is pretty nice, has limited mouse support in the TUI line numbers highlighting. That or Neovim customized

Was staunchly team vim for 15 years, but now I'm on helix. As another user stated below, its like if vim were re-designed today, and without needing any addons to be a code-aware editor.

Vim unless I can neovim.

Being able to change configs on headless systems was my gateway, now I just prefer it

Used to use micro but just switched to neovim, I'm finding it great, esp with the file manager built in

nano, vi, geany, kate...

I prefer nano - simple to use & always available. I manage remote systems often from my mobile using termius: config file editing, writing simple scripts for some analysis/automation tasks and recording task notes and status. Using a tablet I might use vi but generally prefer nano.

vim forever (i think)

Helix: Barely needs a config. But they are also pretty close to done with a plug-in system for the stuff that isn't implemented by default :D

Nano. It's the easiest to use

When I first started using Linux I used Kate, I know, I know, not command line, but I didn't needed a command line editor for my own computer. Eventually I started using nano for quick edits and that became my default CLI editor for a while. I don't remember what I used as an IDE back then, but maybe it was Eclipse, although I think it was mostly just Kate.

Eventually I decided to learn either VI or Emacs, and a friend who used Emacs pushed me to that side. I ended up switching everything to emacs, CLI, IDE, I even learnt org-mode and had tables and presentations in it.

Eventually my pinky started to hurt too much, so I switched to Pycharm for python, and kept emacs for C++, text edits and org-mode. I ended up slowly switching emacs everywhere and reverted to nano.

Some years back I decided to properly learn vim. I have been using nvim for a few years, and while it's not the everything tool that emacs was for me, it's still pretty darn useful. I also haven't become a movement ninja and oftentimes I go wwwwww to get where I want to be. But still, there are some very nice shortcuts that I use a lot like Change Inside/Around or Delete X lines. Macros are cool, and sometimes feel magical, but other times they don't work like I expected and I can't figure out why. I don't see myself changing to something else, the ubiquity of vim shortcuts in other programs makes it very convenient when I have to use something else.

My first experience with *nix was a professor leading me into a server room though two biometric locks and setting up the config files for a compute cluster faster than I would have been able to open the files.

He was using Vim, and though it took me a while to learn, the sheer speed with which he was able to get us out of that unbelievably noisy server room sold me for life.

Well, I use vim for text edits and nvim+extensions for an IDE. As close to a vim purist as is reasonable. But frankly, it's the first one you learn to use well.

Nano 4 life

When I ran a trivia bot on irc back in the day, I used to use sed to edit question files. But mostly use nano now. I don’t do anything all day and COULD learn vim/emacs/something else. But I cbf

Been using linux full time for 10 years. I do almost all of my system admin stuff in the terminal (my desktop, laptop, home server with a few containers). But i cant for the life of me figure out vim (like i know how, but it just doesnt click for me or feel natural)... i tried a bunch of times and will keep trying... but until then, its (shamefully) nano for me

kate textfile &

My first computer was an Amstrad 664, with a green screen. I’m old. And I’ve been around Vim and EMacs from time to time and I love the console but for the love of god, since GUIs became the normal way to interact with computers, I just install micro now and have the same hotkeys across all the modes of interaction.

Speed of typing really isn’t the defining productivity measure for code.

Now I use VS Code in a GUI and micro on the console and that provides a reasonably consistent way of interacting with text.

vim, mainly cause I haven't figured out how to quit yet.

NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.

Helix + my Nix-based configuration tool

Acme

Team vim, but I've been using Helix instead for a year or two -- it's like if Neovim and Kakoune had a baby.

I have been learning vim specifically because of VimWiki. It’s always fun getting a few words into writing a document before realizing I wasn’t in Insert mode, then I have to figure out what I messed up.

Emacs

Nano because It happens to be what I learned first and I don't get enough of a chance to use my computer anymore to even try anything else

Emacs → Vim → Neovim → Helix

Micro, for muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts from when I was a mostly GUI user.

Team Vim. Because I learned the vim basics once 20 years ago and never bothered to learn after that. :D

I am a noob. My server is a MacMini running Ubuntu server because it was easy to install. I have a website, Jellyfin and nexcloud.

I don’t have the brain cells to understand VIM.

In the CLI, I use nano, always. In the GUI, I use Sublime text because the colors are very pretty.

Nano, because it's the only one I can remember how to quit from without power cycling the computer.

vi, since it's ubiquitous.

At the risk of restarting the Editor wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war) from days of yore, I find it interesting that emacs wasn't even in your list of contenders. I hear it mentioned less frequently these days, so perhaps it's going by the wayside?

For the record, I'm a vi/vim user! I had the privilege of being taught to use it by an RFC-writing greybeard decades ago, and have used it without thinking ever since.

For those who find themselves on a machine with only vi/vim, or want to learn, here's a quick primer when editing a file (usually done by typing "vi foo.txt" in a shell) --

:q! ...Force quit vi (:q also works -- gentler!)

:wq! ...Save file and quit vi

i (then type characters) ...insert text at current position

A (then type characters) ...Insert at end of current line

G ...go to first character of last line in the file

/foo ...search for first occurrence of "foo" in the file (hit / again to find additional instances)

x ...Delete character under cursor

:56 ...Go to line 56

yy ...Copy the line the cursor is currently on into the buffer

p ... Paste the buffer

r (then type character) ...Replace character under cursor

u ...undo (hit multiple times to undo prior actions)

When done with a command like this, hit Esc to go back into normal mode.

Second nature after a bit of practice! I used to work with a guy who insisted on using ed. That was... odd.

Vi

Big fan of Helix. Best part is that it dose not need any plugins to be a modern editor. Just configure any LSPs you want and it all just works including things like fuzzy finding, multiple cursors, file browsing etc.