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Thanks to a work-in-progress Homebrew cask by Andi Péter (https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram/issues/15#issuecomment-11159294), I was just able to quickly install and play with the new Gram code editor (

Notepad hijacked by suspected state-sponsored hackers https://therecord.media/popular-text-editor-hijacked-by-suspected-state-sponsored-hackers

OpenAI for Science launches Prism, a free LaTeX-based text editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/27/…

OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science
Prism is a ChatGPT-powered text editor that automates much of the work involved in writing scientific papers. 

Wars I approve of:
- Class War
- The Browser War
- Text Editor War

Updating the list of CLI apps I use regularly:
- castero: client for listening to podcasts.
- calcurse: personal calendar compatible with CalDAV servers.
- kew: music player.
- micro: text editor.
- toot: Mastodon client.
- newsboat: feed reader.
- w3m: web browser (and newsboat add-on, in my case).
- bat: like cat, but cooler.
- exa: like ls, but cooler.
- ncdu: tool for analyzing folder space usage.
- atool: tool for managing compress…

Tonight would have been a great night to have been #livestreaming my #Wikipedia editing… my Watchlist had all sorts of fun! A spammer, an actual edit war with a few editors teaming to stop someone who kept trying to add some opinionated text, an editor doing some amazing cleanup of reference…

I have no interest in hacking on my text editor

«New security flaw found in Microsoft Notepad courtesy of its latest “innovative” additions»
Exactly in such places there should be no code errors. Markdown in text editor really shouldn't be the problem. But now Microsoft is showing us how AI coding (not) works and how error-prone it is.
P.S. I use Vim for the markdown, text & code files.
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I'm a VS Code newbie. And I'm struggling with the editor randomly selecting text while I type particularly when typing symbols. As a result the final code is invalid.
Is there some flag that I have to uncheck to make it stop?

A discussion with @… motivated me to talk about Helix and Neovim.
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/vim_helix_neovim/
This is neither a co…

Today, I am going to be removing a favorite user feature: picking your own font for the Xogot text editor and La Terminal as now you need Apple's approval to use third party fonts installed in the system.
But at least my users will be safe from picking a font in bad taste.

I don't send many emails anymore. I receive emails but I don't send many. Even at work, most of our communication is done via other means. But I do generate at least one email a day to send to a group of external testers. I don't send this from a traditional mail client. Instead it is a shell script that gathers some information and opens a text editor to add further comments. After that the file is sent with

As MS managed to get a remotely exploitable security hole in a simple text editor, and MS also is pround of having 30 % of new code written by AI: is more or less then 30 % of security holes created by AI usage?
Spoiler: all publications on this topics very much hint towards much more than 30 %, and MS ist special anyway…

There are two main ways to replace part of a string in a text editor, with a longer string.
Either you use the overwrite mode to overwrite the overlapping part, then switch to insert mode to append the extra characters, or you delete the overlapping part, then insert the new string using insert mode entirely.
Or you can be chaotic, use overwrite mode to replace part of it, prematurely switch to insert mode, delete the remaining extraneous characters and insert whatever is left.

Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/google-photos-launches-new-video-editing…

Google Photos launches new video editing tools | TechCrunch
Google Photos' new update helps make editing video reels in the app quicker, such as new templates that already add music and text to clips.

This is a totally sensible policy for video editing. The marketing term "AI" is absolutely misplaced for modern features like matte creation (image segmentation, background removal) or motion tracking (and pose estimation) and even speech-to-text transcription. These things have existed for a long time - just not as good - and they run locally in an open-source NLE (non-linear editor).

children, remember that your text editor probably can invoke gopls quickfix action and that's not just a privilege of the fancy people with the fancy ide