Text Editors

How annoying are Linux text editors to us everyday humans?

Call them shortcuts, hotkeys, or accelerators, but for some strange reason, Linux console text editors are specifically engineered to be stupid.

Control-alt-cokebottle-F16 to cursor one character to the right? Gee, that's so usable.

If it's not that, it's an editor that by default isn't an editor but a viewer. What the.

I just want an editor that can edit a file. I don't need some kind of crazy "text development environment" for everyday editing. Editors like that have their place for sure, but absolutely not for beginners and not for everyday use.

After a decade, only a handful of text editors are worth mentioning, and even these are pretty sad.

• [1] aee
• [2] nano
• [3] mcedit (midnight commander's editor)

• [4] Geany
  • GUI, multi-platform, code folding, syntax highlighting, spell checking, easy script execution, plugins. Brilliant.
• dit

• DOSBox-wrapped text editor

Collaborative text editing

Collaboration within an editor is both powerful and annoying.

Related: desktop sharing / remote controlling-type software, paste buckets.

• [5] Gobby
  • Sobby is a standalone Obby server. Gobby and other libinfinity-based editors use Obby.