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Ask HN: Text Editor

by minroot on 7/2/23, 8:42 PM with 7 comments

I have been for the past few years looking for a perfect editor I can live with. Learned Vim, but can't edit Indian languages with it because of being in a terminal. Tried to use emacs, but everytime I install it I find it buggy in most basic things like undoing changes. Tried vscode, but my old laptop is not much equipped for it.

Once watched Russ Cox's screen cast on Acme, I kinda liked it.

I actually don't know exactly what are the things I wish to have in a text editor or program editor. I wish someone knew what I wanted and there were an editor where I could feel home.

I feel sad, one of the primary tool of programmers is in this shape. I'm not sure if it's just me feel this way.

I am looking for a better place, please send help.

  • by stefanos82 on 7/2/23, 8:49 PM

    > ...but can't edit Indian languages with it because of being in a terminal.

    What do you mean exactly with "because of being in a terminal"?

    I use Greek and I switch between English and Greek under my terminal and works just fine; the reason I switch from Greek back to English is so I can take advantage of the whole mapped keys I personally use.

  • by nequo on 7/3/23, 12:24 AM

    Try Emacs again with evil and undo-tree installed. Evil behaves like Vim to a high enough degree that you’ll be comfortable with it if you’re comfortable with Vim. And I haven’t had problems with undo.

    If that doesn’t work, how about neovim-gtk or vanilla Neovim in a terminal emulator that’s capable of handling Indian languages?

  • by leed25d on 7/2/23, 8:43 PM

    Emacs is your friend.