I use it for maintaining my blogs, writing Python and BASH scripts, editing configs and automating infrastructure using Ansible. Nova is my favourite text editor as of 2021.
I discovered Nova in late 2020 and have currently switched to using it full time since the middle of 2021. I used it for quite a bit in 20, especially the ]. It has one of the largest ecosystems of extensions and is used by many developers. I have discovered Sublime Text 3 in 2019, it’s a great editor available for macOS, Windows and Linux. These editors are more advanced tools with support for graphics users interface (GUI), which essentially allows for representing available editing options in more user-frinendly way and support mouse for typical editing operations. Here’s my part 1 video about editing files with vim: Vim – my go-to editor for remote (SSH) sessions! ? it’s a Vi IMproved editor – lots of customisations and expansions on top of vi editor.īasically, most of recent distros have vim implementation instead of the original vi software. Vi – this editor can be found on any Unix or Linux distro since late 1990s. Some say, nano editor it’s the easiest to use. These editors work in your text-only Unix session and are most quick and lightweight ways to make some changes to a text file.
The purpose of such editors is to help you design a document for later printing or sharing online, and you get to see your resulting text as you type – no need for external software to see how it will look. WYSIWYG editors – these are document editors, not plan text editors.editors with graphics interface – still mostly focused around text editing area that traditionally has fixed width font for easier coding, but aided by graphical interface – so menus are more accessible, dialogue windows more meaningful and flexible, etc.Great choice for editing config files though! If you’re editing a web page or a code of program, you probably need external software for rendering result of your work. text-mode editors – both the text and the interface for editing it are shown as text and available for comfortable work in your typical terminal or remote SSH session.There’s three big groups of text editors you can find: This page summarises the most common Unix commands for text editing. There’s quite a few ways for you to edit your texts in Unix.