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.
Maybe https://xi-editor.io, or https://github.com/linuxmint/xed, or also https://kakoune.org
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.
I use kakoune for everything and love it. It’s really fast and minimal, but has plugin support just like vim. I have it as default editor and I have it open in my default terminal when I click on text files.
Xed is not really dead at all. I use it instead of gedit.