editor recommendations?

[Dan Stromberg]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 6:51 AM Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> I'm looking for an editor to use for Python programming, as well as
> related incidentals such as markdown files, restructured text, etc.
>
> I'm currently using vim, and the primary reason I've stuck with it for so
> long is because I can get truly black screens with it.  By which I mean
> that I have a colorful window title bar, a light-grey menu bar, and then a
> light-grey frame around the text-editing window (aka the only window), and
> a nice, black-background editing area.
>
> When I have occasionally tried other editors, they either don't support a
> black background, or the black background is only for the text-editing
> portion which leaves large portions of screen real-estate with a bright
> background, which is hard on my eyes.
>
> So, what's the state-of-the-art with regards to editors supporting dark
> color themes?
>
I like vim :)

I have it all set up with plugins automatically at
https://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/vimrc/trunk/

Just cd'ing to that directory and typing "make" gives me vim with
syntastic, MRU, jedi, etcetera - on Debian based Linuxes and CentOS-like
Linuxes as well.