The search for the editor

On the Mac, I was a big fan of the Coda editor. After it was discontinued and I didn’t warm to its successor Nova, I switched to BBEdit.

After switching to Linux, the question arose: which editor should I use? Of course, this question can take on almost religious overtones, but these are just my thoughts.

VIM

I always use VIM to edit configuration files and when I need to work quickly. Why not for complex things or why not neoVim? A little out of laziness, because I find the entry barrier quite high.

Geany

Geany can do pretty much everything I expect from an editor.

I can save projects and it features syntax highlighting, code folding, auto-completion and auto-closing of XML and HTML tags.

It is based on GTK (3), is small and fast. It therefore fits perfectly into my personal Sway environment.

Alternatives?

What about Kate or Sublimetext? Both are great editors! But Kate runs on QT, which is not my thing personally, and I would have to install Sublimetext from an external repo (not my thing either).