I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again(baty.net)
38 points by speckx | 39 comments
A blog post on baty.net about the author's attempt to move his notes out of Emacs due to "Emacs Fatigue" and why he ended up returning.
#text-editors on Hacker News
24 stories tagged text-editors, newest first.
On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted(unsung.aresluna.org)
346 points by jandeboevrie | 306 comments
A blog post on the Unsung software craft blog about NeoVim deleting Vim undo files and developers' duty of care toward user data.
Good Tools Are Invisible(gingerbill.org)
519 points by theanonymousone | 234 comments
An essay by Ginger Bill arguing that good tools should be invisible rather than "fun" puzzles, using vim and text editor culture as an example.
Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving(rahuljuliato.com)
424 points by frou_dh | 237 comments
A blog post about upcoming Emacs 31 changes the author uses daily; the captured page shows a Vercel 'deployment is temporarily paused' error.
Even more batteries included with Emacs(karthinks.com)
338 points by signa11 | 120 comments
Blog post, third in a series, highlighting useful but lesser-known built-in features of Emacs.
Emacs appearances in pop culture(ianyepan.github.io)
361 points by ggcr | 103 comments
A blog post cataloging appearances of the Emacs text editor in films, TV and other pop culture, starting with The Social Network.
Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac(notepad-plus-plus.org)
532 points by maxloh | 237 comments
Notepad++ news post warning that notepad-plus-plus-mac.org is an unauthorized site misusing the Notepad++ trademark to offer a fake macOS version.
Two Years of Emacs Solo(rahuljuliato.com)
330 points by celadevra_ | 123 comments
Blog post by Rahul M. Juliato reflecting on two years of Emacs Solo, a config with 35 modules, no external packages, and a full refactor.
The Missing Semester of Your CS Education – Revised for 2026(missing.csail.mit.edu)
409 points by anishathalye | 118 comments
Homepage of MIT's Missing Semester course (IAP 2026), teaching CS students practical tools like the shell, editors, version control, and agentic coding.
Vim 9.2(vim.org)
372 points by tapanjk | 154 comments
Official vim.org announcement of the Vim 9.2 release, highlighting Vim9 enums, generics, tuples, Wayland, autocompletion, XDG support and diff mode improvements.
VIM Master(github.com)
345 points by Fluffyrnz | 112 comments
GitHub repository for VIM Master, a lightweight in-browser game that teaches core Vim motions and editing commands through short levels.
Calendar.txt(terokarvinen.com)
323 points by Iuz | 127 comments
Tero Karvinen's page describing Calendar.txt, a format for keeping a calendar in a plain text file, with a downloadable template.
I still like Sublime Text(ohdoylerules.com)
1046 points by james2doyle | 544 comments
A blog post from January 2025 explaining why the author still uses Sublime Text, covering its speed, LSP support, snippets, project workspaces, and build systems.
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim(eieio.games)
566 points by vortex_ape | 57 comments
Blog post by Nolen Royalty showing the Bad Apple video rendered in Vim using only a sequence of about 6,500 regex search queries highlighting text.
Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing(moment.dev)
326 points by antics | 105 comments
Moment devlog post by Alex Clemmer arguing that CRDT and OT collaborative editing algorithms handle offline editing and merge conflicts poorly.
Notepad++ is 21 years old(learnhub.top)
495 points by thunderbong | 215 comments
A LearnHub blog post celebrating the 21st anniversary of the Notepad++ text editor and recounting its history.
Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor(papereditor.app)
427 points by papereditor | 70 comments
A blog post detailing the engineering internals of Paper, a TextView-based text editor for Apple platforms.
9 years of Apple text editor solo dev(papereditor.app)
683 points by pimterry | 326 comments
A developer's retrospective on nine years of building Paper, a text editor for Apple platforms, as a solo maker.
Vim Boss(neovim.io)
1189 points by bpierre | 112 comments
A Neovim news post from August 2023 paying tribute to Vim creator Bram Moolenaar and reflecting on his character and influence.
The Future of the Vim Project(groups.google.com)
617 points by mrzool | 349 comments
Christian Brabandt's vim_dev mailing list post on continuing the Vim project, covering GitHub admin access, new maintainers, and merge plans.
Bram Moolenaar has died(groups.google.com)
4020 points by wufocaculura | 383 comments
A vim_announce Google Groups post from Bram Moolenaar's family announcing his death on 3 August 2023 and his upcoming funeral arrangements.
LazyVim(lazyvim.org)
527 points by tambourine_man | 453 comments
Getting Started documentation page for LazyVim, a Neovim configuration built on lazy.nvim that aims to make customizing and extending the editor easy.
Moving fast with the core Vim motions(barbarianmeetscoding.com)
366 points by mooreds | 219 comments
Chapter 6 of the online book "Boost Your Coding Fu with VSCode and Vim," covering the core Vim motions for moving quickly through code.
BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due(apps.apple.com)
587 points by tambourine_man | 149 comments
Apple App Store 'Meet the Developer' story profiling Rich Siegel, creator of the BBEdit text editor, and its history since 1989.