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.

  • ghost_laptopOP
    2·
    3 years ago

    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.

    • Ephera
      3·
      3 years ago

      …Visual Studio Code/Codium is also Electron-based. 🙃

        • Ephera
          2·
          3 years ago

          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.

          • Helix
            2·
            3 years ago

            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.