So I’ve been trying to find a text editor that’s blazing fast with as little features as possible that doesn’t look like it was designed in the '90s.

I would like something that when I click on my files it opens almost instantly and only displays text in a notepad without any buttons tools, or just the bare minimum (like create a new file or something like that). I want this to read .txt files and that’s it, if I’m working on a writing I’d use LibreOffice and if I’m writing some code I’d use Atom.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Hmm, so if it only displays text, no other UI elements, then what about it could even look like it was designed in the 90s? Or do you just want an editor that can display variable-width font?

    • ghost_laptop@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      I checked the GUIs for Xi (I love the idea of it being built upon Rust) but they all seem to be dead except for Tau which has more shit than Gedit (the one I’m using now), same goes with Xed and I think Kakoune is a terminal based text editor.

  • newhoa@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    What about Mousepad or Featherpad? Gedit, Pluma, Geany are a little more featured but still good and snappy. Cudatext is like a mix of simple editor and Atom-like code editor. But it’s one of the faster editors I’ve used.

    • ghost_laptop@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      I’m using Gedit now, it has another name on Flathub I think, but all the rest seem too bloated, full with buttons and shit, I’d basically like to have text displayed as minimalist as possible.

      This is how it looks now, but if I could get something with less, without, or that those buttons on the title bar disappear when I’m not using it would be perfect (Foliate does this for e-books, but it’s too slow for .txt files).

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
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    3 years ago

    You can try a few of these 1954 editors here: https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?EditorIndex

    Or a few of these I listed here: https://wiki.tilde.fun/dev/editor/start

    I would like something that when I click on my files it opens almost instantly and only displays text in a notepad without any buttons tools, or just the bare minimum

    Mousepad is created for exactly that purpose, if you liked GTK. I think the Qt equivalent would be Featherpad.

    What desktop environment do you use? Kate is pretty fast on my system and it’s a full-blown IDE. The only super slow editors I know are Electron-based like Atom. Why not use vscodium instead of Atom btw? As far as I knew Atom got left behind a bit when Microsoft bought Github.

  • flbn@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    if you’re feeling quirky and want to support a group of cool indie hackers, check out: left. obviously not the electron client lol