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
    3•3 years ago

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

    • ghost_laptopOP
      3•3 years ago

      Holy potatoes! What do you use for code?

      • 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.