Editor of the Year
 

This one is always fun ;)

vi rules
 

first two votes are in, and vi is still the king. Wahoo

I'd actually have to go with Midnight Commander's built-in editor. All I ever use - seems more intuitive to me than the other console editors, and definitely more convenient since I use MC as my only file manager.

Emacs rules! Ok, I voted for emacs, however, KATE is also very good if you are running X. I like the built in console as well.

pico for editing files like lilo, fstab, and the like; Kate for editing PHP and HTML. If I had to choose one, I'd go with Kate. -- J.W.

old is gold

vi/vim still rulez!

I have to agree with smith847be, I use the MC built-in editor as well (even from X term).

I'll also use jove.

vim is good, especially gvim (Since it has mouse support and looks better)

--Ian

vi(m), not new but still rocks.

I'm a pico or nano fan. :)

vi!

I don't see ee (easy edit) up there. Well i use that. I find it alot easier and more comfortable to use then vi.

Gedit is nice for fast editing of webpage files. And it just looks the part With Gnome.

Kate for me, however there is a non-GPL editor called editpad which I like as well.

joe.

Personally I prefer KWrite (not in the list). It's got syntax highlighting and a load of other features I'll never use.

I edit source codes, javascripts, PHP and HTML so it's very usefull.

emacs who? Vi/Vim is the ONLY editor. Nuff said. Next category...

Jedit for me.

A bit slow but very configurable and has allot of options.
Runs on any platform so i can also use it on my Window$ box at work.

I use Emacs for editing code, but for everything else I use Pico. No need to get fancy just to change a config.

MC really does miracles in Linux. Anything. Starting from browsing and editing inside your box and finishing outside the box (I mean network by outside);)

Emacs for coding nano for everything else.

Vi is the best...
it a bit hard at start but it is really the best.

None of the above. I use the editor in mc, and if necessary to have an editor in X, I use Adie Editor. I just can't (and don't want to) get my head around the alien concepts underlying vim and the others. They're clearly from a time before usability guidelines.

Robin

nedit
 

nedit is great for those moving from windows to Linux
so it got my vote.
It's also decent for coding.

For config files and other misc stuff, I use vim.
It seems to have the cool features of just plain vi but
seems to also have no trouble with arrow keys in both
insert and command mode. Honestly, why would anyone
NOT want to use the arrows?. Yeah, some keyboards from
the late 60s might not have the arrows but I'll wait till I'm
forced to use said keyboards before I use HJKL to navigate.

Anyways, vim will get more than a fair share of votes
so I'm still going with nedit.

Kate

Editor of the Year
 

One that I've used for years for any serious work...... cooledit!

Vi(m) gets my vote!

Emacs!!
 

Emacs, of course.

BTW, GNU/Emacs is also the right answer for nearly all the other poll options as well:

Editor of the Year - Emacs of course!!
Web Development Editor of the Year - Emacs! (M-x html-mode)
Open Source Game of the Year - Emacs! (M-x tetris, M-x snake, M-x dunnet, M-x pong, M-x solitaire)
Commercial Game of the Year - Emacs, on Solaris (M-x snake)
Office Suite of the Year - Emacs!! (it does everything)
Mail Client of the Year - Emacs!! (M-x rmail or M-x mh-rmail)
Window Manager of the Year - Emacs!!
Graphics App of the Year - Emacs!! (M-x picture-mode)
Desktop Environment of the Year - Emacs!! (it IS my desktop environment)
Word Processor of the Year - Emacs!!
Messaging App of the Year - Emacs!! (M-x tnt)
File Manager of the Year - Emacs!! (M-x dired)
Browser of the Year - Emacs!! (M-x w3m)
IDE of the Year - Emacs!! (it handles debugging, coding, ediff, cvs... everything!)
Hardening App of the Year - Emacs!! (I use it harden all my systems)
Security App of the Year - Emacs!! (I use it to secure every computer I work on)
Spreadsheet of the Year - Emacs!! (http://acs.ist.psu.edu/dismal/dismal.html)

That only leaves a few categories where Emacs might not fit, such as Distribution of the Year (which should be Slackware, running Emacs).

well, i would vote for jext, but it aint up there and if it was I would be the only voting for it anyway. The only other text editor I use is nano, mainly cause it is so easy and i havent been bothered learning vim ( although it sounds pretty kool from what i have heard ), so nano gets my vote here.

i start to use vi ,and feel it's so good

I use nano in console and gedit under X. More often, though, I use X, so gedit it is.

vi(m)
kool1!

Leafpad. But since its not on the list, I voted for pico (most newb friendly, IMHO).

MagicMan

gedit...

Small, fast, nice...


I use nano on the console, it's great for editing config files.

vim

I'm a dedicated Emacs user, but if there wasn't an Emacs, I would use Vi(m).

vi/vim is all I need and all I use.

hrm.. i thot vi was the only one

;)

ok.. the only one i use....

Wot no setedit (http://setedit.sourceforge.net)

A little difficult to vote for the best when it is not on the list! :confused:

I voted for vi (vim et al) because it is always there. I personaly like an editor called Epsilon by Lugaru (www.lugaru.com) because it is available for Linux and Window$ (which I still have to use for some of my clients). It is an emacs type of editor and I have used it since the early '80s (there was a version for CPM for 8080 and Z80's). I use emacs and xemacs but have always found it a little intimidating.
I think that "favorite" editor has a lot to do with how one was "potty trained".

gedit

vi(m) forever!

Vi(m) drives me mad, Pico and Nano forever!
But as AntEater mentioned emacs is like imagination,
it can do anything :) .

emacs

jEdit is where it's at :-)

I voted for Emacs, though I use Nano and Kate too.

I like vi/vim when i'm using the console, but if I'm editing HTML or something, I use emacs

Emacs comes installed on the Mandrake 10.1 KDE toolbar, so I use it by default, but I'm interested in how the others work. The only other one I've ever used is Kwrite.

I like vi... it's one of those editors where, once you begin using it, it's hard to use something else. However, for creating plain-text documents and stuff, I prefer simpler editors like pico. But I still use vi for those too, depending on my mood ;-)

Jedit
 

Jedit loads (the first time) as fast as gedit on my fedora core 2 with java 5.0.
It has many great plugins, for xml, for html, for coding, loads big files fast, looks good on java 5, you can use the same jar file to install it on windows.
It will not get many votes, but it is a great tool.