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.
I’m going to try Mousepad out since my system uses GTK and it will have better integration than with Qt, I switched from my distro’s text editor to Gedit thanks to someone’s recommendation.
My DE is Pantheon, btw, and thanks for the VSCodium recommendation, I didn’t know Atom was Electron based, that’s shit, I switched to VSC.
…Visual Studio Code/Codium is also Electron-based. 🙃
Holy potatoes! What do you use for code?
I actually also mostly use Kate, but it’s KDE/Qt software, so I’m not sure you want that.
Geany is sort of a GTK alternative to Kate.
Can vouch for Geany, used it for years until I switched to Kate because Qt. It’s highly customizable with plugins and you can basically rewrite the whole GUI in Python.