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.

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
    3·
    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.

    • 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.