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So we have: Vim, Emacs, BBEdit, textmate, notepad++, SublimeText, Atom, Visual Code, Geany... am I missing any?

micro is really good! It installs quickly and provides for just the minimal set of features to be used as a goto editor for small tasks at the terminal.

Komodo Edit is underappreciated imho: https://www.activestate.com/products/komodo-ide/downloads/ed...

Kate. Wikipedia calls it a "basic text editor for the KDE desktop" but it really isn't - as well the usual suspects, it has well-conceived ergonomic features like a minimap, rainbow parens, and smart indentation for a variety of contexts (including Lisp/Scheme!). A real coder's editor.

Fond memories of Geany, though, and probably my first choice if I were on some super-constrained low-ram GTK environment, instead of my cushy Plasma desktop.

joe, pico, nano, elvis, jedit, acme, gedit, kedit... and those are just the ones that popped into my head within a few seconds. There are legions more.

You're missing dozens more, if not hundreds.

How about just the ones big enough to make it on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors

I'm surprised an HN reader could think there were nine text editors and couldn't be bothered to google it.

It was a rhetorical question alas. Smartaleklike.

ed is the standard editor.

ed is also relevant if you find yourself on an old Sun box with a corrupted /usr volume. In order to rescue the system you need an editor, and ed always lived in /bin. This happened to me a few years ago (2001 I think).

I used MED in the old OS/2 days. It has been ported to Windows since, sadly not to Linux. Not free, both as in beer and speech, but reasonably priced and imo worth taking a look.

http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html

Also Kakoune

http://kakoune.org/

Yes, most of them.

(elementary) Code

Nano.

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