I’ve heard good things about Joe’s Own Editor from a sysadmin friend who loves it, but when it comes to text editors, it’s usually the force of habit that overrides any novelty. The ones I use are definitely not lesser known, though.
Oh, one more package I forgot to mention is ungoogled-chromium. As the name suggests, it’s Chromium sans Google integration - but it also includes many quality-of-life features (for example, not hiding https:// and www in URLs).
It’s not in the official repos, though, which sucks because 1) compiling Chromium takes upwards of eight hours and 2) that means I update my browser much less frequently, leaving me more open to zero-days 
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That’s why this logo, matching the construction site …
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Personally I use Micro.
I can really recommend it for people who want a good CLI-based text editor.
…don’t know if it counts as “lesser known”, there are many recommendation vids on the 'tube for it. BUT it’s only available in the AUR for Arch. So maybe?
Exactly the reason I decided to give up on it. Can’t be bothered with continuous compiling.
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One of the reasons I gave up on Gentoo. That, and I remember the latest version of GCC wasn’t available due to incompatibilities with the toolchain at the time and I was thinking to myself “I’m giving up on Arch to have less up to date software, and more down time due to updates?”
Speaking of text editors, for a little while I used my own custom version of kilo. There’s a great tutorial on how to build it yourself from scratch if you have the time and inclination here too: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
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2 chaotic-aur/ungoogled-chromium 85.0.4183.83-1 (80.6 MiB 202.8 MiB)
A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency
1 archlinuxcn/ungoogled-chromium 84.0.4147.125-1 (62.3 MiB 199.5 MiB)
A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency
Install from a repo?
looks interesting, thanks for sharing
chaotic can be a bit slow, but it gets there (eventually).
I’m voting for tossed in the wet cement on a construction site, to become part of the foundation of a building. Just like Jimmy Hoffa did. 
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I gave a try to OnlyOffice, the layout is indeed more elaborated than LibreOffice, but I have no choice than to stick with LibreOffice as OnlyOffice lacks what is for me an essential feature: RTL writing !! People using Arabic or Hebrew can’t just use it at the moment. 
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Now that’s a real bummer 
I almost can’t believe it (although myself non-rtl, but still)
We are quite advanced, but it keeps breaking with new updates. It’s like a stress test until it will finally work.
Here is the problem. The renderers use HTML5 Canvas elements. That means it literally paints the characters one after the other. A technical feat for sure. When dealing with Arabic you have a number of problems
- First, it renders LTR. There is no way we are going to rewrite the whole code to support RTL. So we cheat. We compute a display stack that is rendered LTR but looks correct RTL.
- Second, is ligatures. Characters change based on their position in the word. We got that fixed. But again, required having two stacks. A content stack and a display stack
- Third, words in a paragraph. You have to compute each line when rendering the display stack, you can’t just inverse the order. This part is tricky.
Where things start to break is when you select a character, or move your cursor past the end of line (it needs to wrap around properly for Arabic) etc.
This requires solid experienced JS developers to help us. If there are volunteers, reach out pls. And by experienced, I also mean people who can read the code of others that is undocumented. You get sometimes names like
SplitandSplit2and you have no idea which is which.
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bat : A cat-like utility with scrolling feature and syntax highlight.
Github : https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
Package : https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/bat/
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…I think most zoologists disagree with that.
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Close enough I guess? 
Source
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Has anyone tried pinta? It is a new graphics program, something similar to Paint or Gimp according to its announcement.
Looks interesting, going to try it some of these days.
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Not new lol…but les used lol
I prefer drawing as it seems to work a bit better under hidpi and it’s also simpler (simple is all I need 99% of the time).
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Can it draw arrows?
Mayby more knows it, rsnapshot 
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