• Helix for terminal editing because I never got on well with the order you had to do things in Vim, Helix (and Kakoune) make more sense to me.
• Lite-XL for a lightweight GUI editor. I just think its neat.
• Pulsar for everything else (mainly because I'm involved with it, come visit us on Lemmy at !pulsaredit@lemmy.ml /shill). Literally over 10k packages for install and an awful lot of active development.

Edit: Using this to give a shout out to other projects I've come across on my travels:

• Brackets/Phoenix - A community effort to keep the abandoned Adobe Brackets editor going, has a web version now, linux version still in the works after Adobe removed support for it.
• CudaText - Pretty fast and supports a huge number of languages
• eCode - Not used it in a while but is part of the eeep GUI project, lightweight and pretty interesting with lots of active development on both eCode and eeep.
• Bitters - Very much an oddball here, inspired by the Canon CAT word processor/computer from the 80s with a really interesting "leaping" way of navigating text.
• Aura Text - Interesting little editor written in Python

And some terminal ones:

• Zee - an emacs-like editor written in Rust. Main repo seems to be dead but one of the Lapce devs is working on a fork of it - https://git.panekj.dev/pj/zee
• Amp - another Rust based editor with some interesting ways to navigate text
• dte - Just a nice terminal editor
• moe - Vim-like editor written in Nim (not to be confused with GNU Moe)
• Feather - Specifically for opening huge files
• Tilde - Curses type interface, can be used with a mouse in some terminals