Some interesting editors

Common keymap editors

This type of editors is characterized by using common key bindings like Ctrl-s for save or Crtl-c for copy.

Micro (terminal)

• Easy to install, only one binary

Atom (depricated)

• super flexible
• enormous number of plugins
• a bit slow to start, but once up and running operating at good speed

Howl (depricated)

• lightweight
• very capable editor

Brackets (depricated)

• Never really tried as my impression is that it is very much tailored towards web development

LightTable (depricated)

• currently development is a bit slow and some important issues do net get resolved. On the other side it is a very capable, stylish editor that can be modified easily in Closure. It has a very pleasant feel.

Textadept

• Based on scintilla. Menu system feels a bit all over the place with menu, command palette and a command line. None covers all functions.

Cudatext

• Command palette
• Multi platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) with easy one package install
• nice light and quite capable

VScode

• Microsoft
• A bit unclear communicated license leads to almost everyone using the copyrighted version that can be downloaded from the Microsoft page.
• hardly used, looks like a very capable editor

Textosaurus

• very promising editor
• a lot of text conversion tools to convert between Unix, Mac, Windows formats and different text encodings.
• not many actually text editing functions
• only menu, no command palette

Emacs style editors

Emacs (terminal / gui)

• The original
• quite a learning curve

Spacemacs

• Really helpful menu and plugin /?? system makes it very approachable
• uses vim keybindings as default. This can be changed in the options

mg (terminal)

Mini edito with some of the core Emacs keybindings.

QEmacs

• actually quite nice little editor
• very similar keybindings to Emacs
• much lighter than Emacs
• help function

MicroEmacs

• A bit hard core from today's view
• select needs a bit getting used to

Modal editors

Kakoune (terminal)

• a new approach to modal editing that starts with the noun, so "word delete" instead of "delete word"

Vi/Vim/NeoVim (termianl)

• I actually don't use any of these
• obviously vi comes handy as it is installed on almost every Unix like system

Oni (gui)

• NeoVim with Gui and command palette
• rather cool, if you like neovim or vim.
• You use your init.vim

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Individual keymap

nano (terminal)

• standard on almost every Unix system
• the standard editor for those who do not want to use vi
• Despite it's reputation to be easy I think what that means is that it is more discoverable thatn vi, however it definately needs getting used to