with the debian popularity contest package we can finally know who truly won the editor war:

rank 1164: vim     86893 installs
rank 4264: emacs   12198 installs
rank 4321: ed      11992 installs
rank 5841: neovim  6980  installs

well that settles it. vim is the most popular editor by far–

wait. what’s that in the distance

…

rank 123:  nano    229022 installs

by god, it’s nano with a steel chair!

@sam except GNU nano and vim-tiny are in the default installs

@sam given that nano gets installed by default, I feel these numbers are a little skewed

@sam im pretty sure nano is included with debian by default so that might kinda screw with the rankings

@sam@mk.woem.space @CauseOfBSOD@wetdry.world yes it's the default text editor

@sam I’m surprised some people actually tolerate the ancient version of neovim in the debian package repo that doesn’t work with any plugins, compared to building latest from source.

@lanodan @sam To be fair, they are about equally easy to use for newcomers.

@Ollie @sam it edits text and that's all that's needed

@halva @sam I like LSP and tree-sitter too much.

Although now that I think about it why would you use neovim over normal vim if you aren’t using the advanced plugins and extensibility of neovim? /genq The only reason I can think of is preferring vimscript over lua (which is extremely valid I hate lua).

@Ollie @sam i already hate configuring editors, but if i have to for whatever reason, it better not have a language seemingly designed to make you hate humanity

@Ollie @sam i dont personally use n/vim anywhere but machines that probably wont run helix anyway

@halva @sam I’m a weirdo that uses both neovim and emacs.

if I need to quickly edit something from a terminal neovim is really nice, and I have a cool config. I’m still working on learning emacs but mostly use it for org-mode at the moment but I have the plugins installed to do LSP and DAP as well once I get around to setting those up.

@Ollie @sam yeah i have no clue about half the things you said

@sam@mk.woem.space why is ed more popular than emacs ​​

@green@transfem.social @sam@mk.woem.space wuhh it's not tho?

@sam@mk.woem.space @mir@talk.marq42.xyz oh, i thought the list was sorted the other way. oops

@sam @CauseOfBSOD @Stellar isn’t ed the standard text editor?

@sam@mk.woem.space @CauseOfBSOD@wetdry.world @ark@otherling.social never heard of it