What are your favorite text editors?

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  • ash

    A modern terminal text editor (by akashnag)

  • Try out ash-editor. It is super simple to use, better than nano in many respects.

  • For terminal usage I tend to use nano (with a few options) but I have used micro before and it was neat.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • vscodium

    binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  • Finally for software development I use VSCodium, which is the open version of VSCode.

  • notepad-plus-plus

    Notepad++ official repository

  • For graphical usage I stick with simple ones like mousepad, but I use Notepadqq to have an alternative to Notepad++ .

  • micro-editor

    A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  • For terminal usage I tend to use nano (with a few options) but I have used micro before and it was neat.

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • Finally for software development I use VSCodium, which is the open version of VSCode.

  • Geany

    A fast and lightweight IDE

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • github-orgmode-tests

    This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files

  • org-mode

  • magit

    It's Magit! A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.

  • magit https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Magit

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