The rootwork v0.2 blog posted about the author's journey through text editors, from classics such as vi(m) and Emacs to tools I've never heard of. They explain what they use the editors for and why.
Was looking into understand why everyone talks about neovim instead of vim and found myself trying Helix and … wow out of the box I learned more how to use a vim-like editor than in one year on vim ???
going down the rabbit hole of syntax highlighting.. ..i made a Mousepad text editor generic-config.lang syntax plugin for highlighting files not supported by other syntax plugins, like i3/conf, i3status.conf, dunstrc, and other conf/config-type files.. ..i also made an xresources.lang syntax plugin for highlighting Xresources/Xdefaults files
「 My goal was to find a distraction-free text editor or word processor that would work on Linux. This was several years ago, and the selection was not that extensive, even though the distraction-free trend was starting to gain momentum 」