Solved Which text editor to use?

[MikeRocor]

Just out of curiosity, how on Earth have we had a thread this long about text editors without so much as a flame war, let alone an all out religious jihusade (tm)? Are people actually more interested in -what- we type rather than -how- we type it? Have we actually grown up? And if we have, can we ctrl-z that?

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jihusade : a non-denominational "holy war" (imtu)

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imtu : "I Made That Up"

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ctrl-z : the "undo" one, not the "scroll up" one

 

[abdulwasay4585]

I use vs code, and sublime text

 

[tinfoil-hat]

I am using VIM in terminal, xed sometimes and for projects I use VSCodium

 

[bigkenny]

I too just wanted a basic ed I use xed seems ok and does all I need

 

[yuva_kiran_19]

I've used Nano a bit, but it's visually very stark. I've heard of emacs and another one I can't remember the name of right now. But what text editor do other here use?

Use micro, it is very simple. It is not a GUI but provides features like in GUI . Pretty simple to use in terminal.
Controls are similar to GUI editors like
ctrl+s
ctrl+z
ctrl+o to open existing file
ctrl+q to quit
ctrl+x to cut and v to paste

 

[AmethystAngel]

Microsoft Word

Hi ~~ I've never used forums before, so bear with me. I have the MS Office 2021 desktop suite. Is there a way to "install" it on my Zorin OS 18? I'm going to be uninstalling OneDrive very shortly but I am reticent to give up on Word, Excel, & PowerPoint. I know there are a lot of videos about how to install MS office apps on Linux distros but my trust level is 6 ft under where MS is concerned. I'm 63 y/o. Please help.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Hi ~~ I've never used forums before, so bear with me. I have the MS Office 2021 desktop suite. Is there a way to "install" it on my Zorin OS 18?

My reply was sarcastic, I don't use it. You can try if LibeOffice works for you otherwise. There's probably some way to do so with Wine but I haven't done that recently so I can't advise on that.

 

[tinfoil-hat]

Hi ~~ I've never used forums before, so bear with me. I have the MS Office 2021 desktop suite. Is there a way to "install" it on my Zorin OS 18? I'm going to be uninstalling OneDrive very shortly but I am reticent to give up on Word, Excel, & PowerPoint. I know there are a lot of videos about how to install MS office apps on Linux distros but my trust level is 6 ft under where MS is concerned. I'm 63 y/o. Please help.

Try out OnlyOffice, it's pretty similar to Microsoft Word. For me it's a bit easier to use than LibreOffice

 

[deb_user]

LibreOffice can use Office documents, or the open document text format .odt that is also used by Office. It will work much better on Linux than trying to run Office under wine.