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

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

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

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

#ed #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, 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

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

#Kakoune and #Helix are intriguing modal editor alternatives for #Vim:

“Notes On Switching To Helix From Vim”, Julia Evans (https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/10/10/notes-on-switching-to-helix-from-vim/).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45539609

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/rahklm/notes_on_switching_helix_from_vim

#Vi #Editors #TextEditors #TUI #Text #UX