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I write prose in Rich Text Files (RTF) and everything else in UNIX-formatted plaintext.
When it comes to RTF editing, I normally use Microsoft Wordpad on Windows and (prefer it to using) Libreoffice on everything else. I like RTF because editors handle everything for me - changing the font and indentations and everything is very easy - and because despite its proprietary-ness it's well supported and converts to plaintext relatively easily.
When it comes to code, I only use Linux/UNIX/something with a console. I've tried coding in IDEs many times and every time I've been disappointed. I'm not used to using my mouse when I code and even when I acclimate I still don't like it, though I've never used ACME before and that might change my mind someday. Lately I've been writing C and Python and when I write both I use "ne", the Nice Editor. It's simple and it uses a lot of common keyboard shortcuts. I avoid lines of code longer than 79 characters, and I use tabs for indentation with a tab length of 8. I never use hard word wraps on plaintext if I can catch it and I don't normally use soft word-wrapping in code. I grew up on Microsoft DOS's EDIT.COM and it's still my go-to editor on DOS.
My preferred encoding is UTF-8. I don't like Unicode because I disagree with how emoji are being added. I have an ASCII chart on my wall.
When I use stock systems I use nano until I install ne. I'm not yet sure how to use ed.