Mastodawn

On Windows and Linux / BSDs desktops+WINE I use TextPad (sort, diff, grep functions); customisable syntax highlighting included with 3rd party contributions. Not an IDE, but its been my GUI text editor of choice since 1996.

On *nix boxes, I like classic vi(1) (Bostic's nvi) (not vim) and ed(1); the shell is your IDE. There are now at least 2 vim classic hard forks that have ripped the AI slop if you still want vim. See also here

#NoAI #UnplugAI #TextEditors #vi

TextPad - the text editor for Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11

DanQ.me Mar 17

Over on my other (even sillier) blog, I answered Ellane's questionnaire about how and why I use plain text. In plain text, of course.
Read more: https://danq.me/2026/03/17/questionnaire-plain-text/

#repost #ascii #bbses #nostalgia #textEditors

Questionnaire – Plain Text

Over on my other (even sillier) blog, I answered Ellane's questionnaire about how and why I use plain text. In plain text, of course.

Dan Q

Max Headroom Mar 14

I'm rebuilding #zedless from the ground up. Editing the source code directly made it impossible to keep up with upstream due to the hundreds of merge conflicts I would encounter with every update. Now I'm switching to AST editing with #astgrep and #treesitter.

The patch code is available at https://github.com/zedless-editor/zedless-patches. In its current state, it can build Zed v0.225.10 with reduced telemetry, no auto updates, and some of the proprietary AI integrations removed.

The plan is to get rid of all telemetry and nuisances such as upsell popups, as well as all online functionality that is specifically tied to a particular provider, leaving you with an editor that stays out of your way and doesn't rely on any services you couldn't host yourself.

#texteditors #zed #spyware #antifeatures #foss

GitHub - zedless-editor/zedless-patches: (WIP) Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first

(WIP) Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first - zedless-editor/zedless-patches

GitHub

mort Mar 3

I've been on #neovim forever, not because it's that amazing but because it's kind of the only option... Atom is dead, VS Code is a semi-proprietary Microsoft AI editor, Zed was potentially interesting for a while but became an AI editor, I never got into EMacs and I don't want a closed source text editor

I'm trying out GRAM now: https://gram.liten.app/, a fork of Zed without the AI and without the hostile ToS. It actually seems pretty nice so far! #texteditors #programming #gram #zed

GRAM

Gram is an open source code editor with built-in support for many popular languages. Gram is an opinionated fork of the Zed code editor.

Alessandra Sierra Jan 10

I was always curious about the Xi editor, sad that it never really took off. Just learned about Lapce, described as a “spiritual successor” to Xi

https://lap.dev/lapce/

https://github.com/lapce/lapce

https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor

#Xi #Lapce #TextEditors

Lapce - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor

Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor

Steve KØSTK Jan 9

A Deep Dive into the ed Text Editor
https://jxself.org/ed.shtml

#ed #texteditors

A Deep Dive into the ed Text Editor

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Dualtronic Dec 26

More generally, what is it with #TextEditors in 2025 not enabling word wrap by default? And line numbers?

Danie van der Merwe Dec 17

Easier Than Nano! Fresh is a Fresh New Rust-based Terminal Editor

“Fresh is a new Rust-based terminal text editor that takes a different approach. It uses standard keybindings like Ctrl+S for saving, Ctrl+F for searching, and Ctrl+Z for undoing. It works like a GUI editor but runs in your terminal.”

Newer versi ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/easier-than-nano-fresh-is-a-fresh-new-rust-based-terminal-editor/

#opensource #technology #texteditors

Easier Than Nano! Fresh is a Fresh New Rust-based Terminal Editor

“Fresh is a new Rust-based terminal text editor that takes a different approach. It uses standard keybindings like Ctrl+S for saving, Ctrl+F for searching,

GadgeteerZA

Danie Dec 17

Easier Than Nano! Fresh is a Fresh New Rust-based Terminal Editor

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-419f00f1-3be55311613f0c13

Steve Dallape Oct 27

Coders – I am looking for a text editor that is as much like Notepad++ as possible, but for MacOS. Any suggestions? #macOS #textEditors #apps #software #notepad++