The two big ones are Emacs and Vim, but as with all popular projects, I'm sure there are clones and rewrites and forks that are very innovative, useful, and interesting, but that haven't gained much traction because there's just not enough incentive for most individuals to switch away from the editor we already know. What are some such editors? (Specifically, only free/gratis ones.)
Ask HN: what are some innovative new text editors?
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Re: Ask HN: what are some innovative new text editors?
#2A friend of mine had (is having?) a fling with Acme [1]. He's currently working on making his spinoff web-based to leverage CodeMirror and make things prettier. In his words: "it's a prettier acme in javascript with more automatic terminal integration".
I'm trying to get him to release the source, but he'll never think it is 'ready'. Hopefully Acme's interesting enough for now.
Re: Ask HN: what are some innovative new text editors?
#3Look at LightTable.
Re: Ask HN: what are some innovative new text editors?
#4I find dex [1] interesting.