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Win+R (my Window Maker shortcut for showing the Run dialog) -> nedit is something that i do pretty much automatically when i want to take a quick note.", "context": "", "use_case": "quick note taking", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"}, {"id": 792517504, "item_id": 49532344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532344", "by": "vintermann", "date": "2026-09-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I still miss NEdit.", "excerpt": "I still miss NEdit. Around 2001 when I started getting into Linux seriously, I was also reading a lot about cults - Scientology had recently, infamously, forced Slashdot to take down a comment about their secret practices. One of the things I read was that a common cult trick was to demand that people re-learn basic skills so that they do them the \"right\" way, like reading (Scientology did that), eating (chew X times", "context": "Linux user since around 2001, ex-Amiga", "use_case": "text editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "vintermann", "context": "Linux user since around 2001, ex-Amiga", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532344", "date": "2026-09-02"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["text editing on workstations", "quick note taking", "text editing on linux"], "compared": [{"slug": "jedit", "name": "jEdit", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "visual-studio-code", "name": "Visual Studio Code", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524863", "title": "Fine, I'll build my own text editor", "mentions": 4}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 792606144, "item_id": 49537884, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537884", "by": "wazoox", "date": "2026-09-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Ah ah I'm also a NEdit fan. Still using XNEdit at times (the version that supports UTF-8, https://github.com/unixwork/xnedit ), because I've written so many small tools in its weird built-in language. For several years I've even hosted the nedit.org website :)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"}, {"id": 792556323, "item_id": 49534770, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49534770", "by": "jillesvangurp", "date": "2026-09-02", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Can't say I miss nedit. But it was alright for the mid nineties", "excerpt": "Can't say I miss nedit. But it was alright for the mid nineties when I used it on university workstations (a mix of Sun, HP, and SGI hardware). I also got into Jedit for a while. Nice editor and the plugin system it had was pretty advanced for the time. This before we had the option of using something like javascript to do the same kinds of things (like vs code and other editors now do). 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One of the things I read was that a common cult trick was to demand that people re-learn basic skills so that they do them the \"right\" way, like reading (Scientology did that), eating (chew X times", "context": "Linux user since around 2001, ex-Amiga", "use_case": "text editing on Linux", "switched_from": "", "story": "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"}]}