vim, nano, emacs

Whichever editor your fingers already know, it is here, and none of them were left on stock settings without thought.

vim: plugin-free by design

This is not a compromise, it is the point. No X11 clipboard, no scripting backend, zero plugins, zero plugin manager, zero network access at install time or runtime. scp this config to a box you have never seen and it works, because it only uses what a stock vim already ships with: 770+ syntax files, indent rules for 420+ filetypes, popup windows, and a fuzzy finder built entirely out of matchfuzzy().

• Real system clipboard over OSC 52. gy{motion}, gyy, or visual gy copies to your actual system clipboard, from inside a container, through tmux, correctly, every time, hand-rolled with no external dependency.
• A native fuzzy finder, no fzf binary required: ,f project files, ,b open buffers, ,m recent files, ,H help topics.
• Persistent undo. Close a file, restart the container, reopen it a week later, u still walks back through history from before the restart.

Personal overrides go in ~/.vimrc.local, which this config sources last, so the shared file stays identical across every workspace on the platform.

nano and emacs

nano and emacs-nox (the terminal-only build, no X11 dead weight on a headless box) sit right next to vim on this image. Not every task, and not every person, wants a modal editor.