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How do I get autocompletion, linting, gitgutter, and so on in Nano? Emacs is another great editor for sure, but slightly heavier weight than Vim, so I've just invested in that.

There is no other editor that even comes close to being as lightweight and extensible as Vim (or Emacs). Whatsmore I absolutely love my editor being in a tmux pane. This is an unprecedented paradigm, that people should't have to miss out on just because of Normal Mode's learning curve.

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> There is no other editor that even comes close to being as lightweight and extensible as Vim (or Emacs).

Sure there is, just not the free type so many people rather have.

Here is one example, almost as old as Windows (since 3.x days), https://www.slickedit.com

You would have to extend it yourself which others do for me with plugins in vim or emacs.

There are also people doing plugins for it.

If you put it like that you only have emacs left. Instead of an editor in a tmux pane you a shell in the editor. But Emacs is hardly lightweight. Compared to Atom though even something as heavy Spacemacs in emacs is much better.

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