I am mainly developing my Nim programs using an iPad Pro connected to a 
Rapberry Pi 4B via a terminal emulator called ‘Blink Terminal’. This uses Mosh 
or SSH - so all my code editing is at the command line only.

I have tried using both Vim and Emacs which were ok, but I have finally settled 
on the Micro Editor: 
[https://micro-editor.github.io](https://micro-editor.github.io)/

This is configured to run the ‘nimpretty’ tool on save, and has built in syntax 
checking for Nim too, which is very nice! I can compile and run from within the 
editor also - so makes it pretty good workflow wise.

Plus, it uses most of the common key bindings for Windows type applications, so 
saves having to learn Vim or Emacs ones instead, if you are already familiar 
with Windows (by choice or otherwise) of course! The keys bindings can be 
altered to suit as well. All the setting are in simple JSON files.

I run the ‘nightly’ version downloaded straight from the releases GitHub page - 
just needs a single application file to install it.

Might be an alternative option to consider, although I have also used Microsoft 
Visual Studio Code on a Ubuntu laptop as well, and that works well with Nim 
too, once the correct Market Place add-on is install for Nim support!

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