Programming

Helix. Instant startup. Minimal configuration required. Has all of the killer features I want from an IDE anyway.

EDIT: I assumed people would just research this anyway, but a more complete list of features I enjoy from Helix:

• very responsive
• modal editing
• declarative configuration file format (TOML, not Lua)
• language server protocol
• debug adapter protocol
• written in Rust so I am more likely to be able to submit a PR if I need to

Some cons (all known issues on github):

• no plugin API yet
• inline LSP diagnostics are overly intrusive and can overlap your code
• cold-starts the LSP when you start the editor, so you might need to wait for symbol queries in a large project

vim. Just basic vim, I don't jazz it up to be all IDE-like. I want my vim to behave exactly like it would if I'm on some random other computer.

If I need autocomplete, ability to jump to the definition of stuff and so forth I use whatever the other people on the project use, which is often vscode these days.

I wouldn't normally point out a spelling mistake but... Why did you spell text like that?

Vim if I'm on Linux, notepad++ if I'm on windows. Though I will use VSCode in both OS if want to make a lot of changes and run the file.

Emacs. But honestly, I have no idea what I am doing.

Neovim for most things. At work I use VSCode for Java stuff

Kate, though it gets a bit IDE like.

Vim for everything

vim on any *nix box, Notepad++ when forced to use Windows.

Sublime Text 3 perpetual license. I would move to VSCode as my "quick editor" but I'm not trusting an Electron app, for starters same document in both wastes 3x more RAM and second I can open 10GB SQL dumps in Sublime and perform find and replace operations in VSCode however....

Helix and Code - OSS sometimes (Code - OSS is an open source vscode distribution)

Kate on Linux, Notepad++ on Windows.

Also, Kate on Windows (it's really good)

This is going to be a boring answer but I use neovim. I do use it as my ide as well but it’s so fast and lightweight that when I need to edit a random config file or something, I just start another instance of it.

My own. My Emacs config grew over years to several thousand lines, and it got to a point where I decided I could write an editor in fewer lines that it took to configure Emacs how I liked it. It's ... not for everyone. I'm happy with it, because it does exactly only the things I want it to, and nothing else, but it does also mean getting used to quirks you can't be bothered to fix, and not getting to blame someone else when you run into a bug.

That said, writing your own editor is easier than people think, as long as you leverage libraries for whichever things you don't have a pressing need to customize (e.g. mine is written in Ruby, and I use Rouge for syntax highlighting, and I believe Rouge is more lines of code than the editor itself thanks to all the lexers)

Geany or (with a lot of reconfiguration) Kate.

Geany is built upon the same text edit control as Notepad++.

Helix, Lapce, and/or VSCodium

(Neo)vim. Has everything I could ever need.

Neovim and Emacs

• Sublime Text
• micro
• less + highlight/rich-cli/bat

The GNOME text editor or Nano.

I appreciate Vim, but when I just need to inspect something or change a single line, the former are easier.

As for Neovim and Emacs... I don't have eight hours to set aside monthly to keep them configured and working.

Sublime Text 2, for which I have a licence. I'd upgraded to 3 but not for a subscription model.

Kate since VSCode doesn't render correctly on my rig anymore...

As often as not, I'm using nano on the command line. It's available in Windows through WSL.

Being honest, WSL makes running Windows so much easier.

KWrite/Kate or Neovim, depends on whether I’m using a graphical interface or terminal.

Pulsar, granted it can be ide like and I do contribute to it but I loved atom over any other tool that I've been introduced too by anyone. Sometimes I do use nano tho bc of having some familiarity with the command line but not enough to be fully functional tbh.