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Best looking and most minimalist text editor? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 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.