Episode 26 of our technology podcast @RuntimeArguments (http://RuntimeArguments.fm) — and it's our one-year anniversary! This one's called "Why You'll Never Switch Editors (And What You're Missing)".

Wolf @YesJustWolf surveys the text editor landscape — Vim, Emacs, VS Code, Helix, and some new AI-powered contenders — while Jim @jammcq defends his 42-year Vim habit (and gets talked into looking at TreeSitter and LSPs).

As always, we want to know what you think:

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#TextEditors #Vim #NeoVim #Emacs #VSCode #HelixEditor #LSP #TreeSitter #AICoding #Podcast #TechPodcast

Tech/software updates

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/17465-Tech-software-updates

@SharpCheddarGoblin

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

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