What less popular text editors do you like or should have a shout out more often? What stuff do you do with it?

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Helix for terminal editing because I never got on well with the order you had to do things in Vim, Helix (and Kakoune) make more sense to me.
Lite-XL for a lightweight GUI editor. I just think its neat.
Pulsar for everything else (mainly because I'm involved with it, come visit us on Lemmy at !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml /shill). Literally over 10k packages for install and an awful lot of active development.
Edit: Using this to give a shout out to other projects I've come across on my travels:
Brackets/Phoenix - A community effort to keep the abandoned Adobe Brackets editor going, has a web version now, linux version still in the works after Adobe removed support for it.
CudaText - Pretty fast and supports a huge number of languages
eCode - Not used it in a while but is part of the eeep GUI project, lightweight and pretty interesting with lots of active development on both eCode and eeep.
Bitters - Very much an oddball here, inspired by the Canon CAT word processor/computer from the 80s with a really interesting "leaping" way of navigating text.
Aura Text - Interesting little editor written in Python
And some terminal ones:
Zee - an emacs-like editor written in Rust. Main repo seems to be dead but one of the Lapce devs is working on a fork of it - https://git.panekj.dev/pj/zee
Amp - another Rust based editor with some interesting ways to navigate text
dte - Just a nice terminal editor
moe - Vim-like editor written in Nim (not to be confused with GNU Moe)
Feather - Specifically for opening huge files
Tilde - Curses type interface, can be used with a mouse in some terminals
- As someone who studied radio astronomy, thanks for telling me about Pulsar.
  
  I've been wanting to get more and more thematic with naming things but my efforts haven't come to fruit just yet. Like we have "regular" and "rolling" releases but those are boring (although descriptive), I was proprosing something like Nebula and Quasar, you know, something that ties in with the space name.
- Pulsar looked really nice until I realised it's just another electron app. But will probably give lite-xl a try
  
  It absolutely isn't "another electron app" in that sense. Atom (and now Pulsar) literally invented Electron, it is the original Electron app to the point where even thinking about de-coupling it isn't really possible. Electron literally used to be called "Atom-shell".
  
  Woah! Atom-shell = electron. I'm dumb and the connection was just made.
  
  pretty sure pulsar is a fork of atom, one of the og electron packages
  
  It is indeed, we picked up where Atom left off. And yeah, not just "one of" but the og electron app.

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