Using yazi on Windows

 Yazi is my favorite file manager on Linux. On Windows, however, I have been having trouble with file previewing and file opening. Today I asked Google Gemini about this and the answer was:

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3. Important Windows Requirement: file

Yazi uses the file command to determine if a file is "text" or "image." Windows doesn't have this by default.

• Recommendation: Install Git for Windows. It includes a file.exe utility.

• Tell Yazi where it is by adding this to your Nushell env.nu (open with config env):

  Code snippet

  $env.YAZI_FILE_ONE = 'C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\file.exe'

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This actually solved the problem.

Rust, Helix, and Zellij

I know about Rust programming language for many years but did not think it will be a major player in the open source software world simply because there have been so many good programming languages and development tools. I recently stumbled into a couple of really good open source software, including the Helix file editor and the Zellij terminal multiplexer, both were developed using Rust. Also, there are at least two R packages, rextendr and cargo, that facilitate the calling of Rust function from within R. Maybe it is time to pay more attention to Rust. 

The Nushell is another essential component of this Rust-centric free software ecosystem. 

Texts, a visual markdown editor

Finally Texts includes the bibliography capability. Now it is a lightweight but complete writing environment for academics.

wxMEdit

wxMEdit is the reincarnation of the once popular text/hex editor called MadEdit. I liked the editor but not its icon (the one with teeth). The new editor looks pleasant and snappy. I think it handles very large file size.

Light Table

Light Table is is a modern editor/IDE that is almost as flexible as Emacs. It has a lot of potentials.

The Atom text editor

This new text editor looks promising. Here are instructions of installing on Ubuntu.

Lotus Symphony 3

A new version of Lotus Symphony is out. Interesting that IBM does not provide a 64-bit build for Linux.

Linux editor

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9030879/Linux_text_editors_Do_any_make_the_grade_?pageNumber=1

NpptoR: R in Notepad++

For those who are scared of Emacs: http://sourceforge.net/projects/npptor/

A good cross-platform text editor

I use both Linux and Windows and have been searching for a good cross-platform text editor for a long time. Now this small piece software called "MadEdit" seems to be very promising. It is cross-platform, unicode enabled, free, and open source. Check it out at:

http://madedit.sourceforge.net/