Linux users: What plain text editor do you use and why is this your preference? I've tried Zettler, Obsidian, Kate (which I use often for CTRL-J), and Joplin (which does something funny with files, I forget what). I'm a low-brow user, Troglodite, Neanderthal, slow to pick up Joe, no coder, so there's that.

@zudn
I use nano, largely because I'm not a very visual person, and I find it easier to control things with the keyboard, rather than the mouse, so I'm often in a terminal anyway. Nano is definitely simpler and more intuitive than geekier terminal-based editors like vi and emacs. At the bottom of the screen it has a couple of rows of handy reminders of commonly-used commands, and the key combinations you can use to perform them.

The one caution I'd make about nano is that you need to think about what you want it to do about line-wrapping:
* No wrapping, so you have to move along a long line to see it all?
* Soft wrapping, so you can see the whole line on the screen, but it doesn't insert line-breaks into the file?
* Hard wrapping, so you get line breaks saved to the file, and no line is longer than a certain maximum?
If you do decide to use nano, I can help you get it set up to do what you want by default.

Oh, and nano doesn't auto-save files as you edit them, as far as I know.