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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'll give you six that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

sim and vis, both of which focus on combining vim motions with structural regular expressions as used in...
sam and acme from Plan 9, both of which are included in Plan 9 from User Space (aka plan9port). sam also has a modified/expanded version in the form of deadpixi/sam, while acme has spin-offs like a port to Go and a standalone version.
mg, one of the three default text editors included with OpenBSD (the others being vi and ed).
sandy, the abandoned suckless text editor. It uses dmenu and is fun to mess with for shits and giggles.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am trying to help with vis and it is a lot of fun to use. Aside from things where I really need neovim (because of large plugins), I use vis every day. Sam and ACME (and whole Plan9 for that matter) have the biggest problem with being too GUI oriented. They are from times when we discovered a mouse and then decided we need to use it for everything. Thirty years down the line we know better: we don’t.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you mean st instead of dmenu here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...no, I definitely meant dmenu. sandy has keybindings that bring up (by default) various dmenu prompts as a substitute for the usual "command mode".

: or M-x to bring up a command prompt, C-\ for a "pipe to" prompt, M-\ for a sed prompt... you get the idea.

st is just the suckless terminal emulator; sandy can be run from any terminal emulator.