Roundup: Text Based Text Editors

“For some reason, text editors are something that us Unix geeks
get very passionate about. Whether it’s an argument over which
editor is better, or just professing our love for our favourite
keyboard shortcuts, it’s an emotive issue.

“You might think that a plain text editor is a pretty simple
affair. After all, all it has to do is allow you to type stuff in
and then change it. Right?

“Well, it turns out that there are lots of different ways you
can approach a text editor and lots of different feature sets that
different people prefer.”

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