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View Poll Results: Editor of the Year
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vi/vim
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588 |
37.96% |
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emacs/xemacs
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134 |
8.65% |
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jEdit
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28 |
1.81% |
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nano
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150 |
9.68% |
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pico
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49 |
3.16% |
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Kate
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348 |
22.47% |
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gedit
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122 |
7.88% |
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Nedit
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32 |
2.07% |
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joe
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30 |
1.94% |
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Scite
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19 |
1.23% |
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Midnight Commander Editor
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49 |
3.16% |
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02-16-2006, 09:03 AM
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#106
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Missouri
Distribution: Gentoo 2007.0 x86 & amd64
Posts: 25
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Kate, as its highlighting makes writing C (or any type of) code much easier.
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02-16-2006, 09:42 AM
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#107
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: BC Canada
Distribution: Ututo-E (not for long)
Posts: 20
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SciTE
SciTE has served me very well across multiple OS's and to be honest I prefer its simple interface to vi or emacs.
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02-16-2006, 01:29 PM
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#108
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: The Netherlands
Distribution: Slackware, SuSe, eeeXubuntu
Posts: 14
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vi/vim for console and kate for gui
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02-16-2006, 05:45 PM
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#109
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Member
Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Melbourne Australia
Distribution: Netrunner
Posts: 67
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Kate wordcount and macro
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Originally Posted by KimVette
KATE is great (I voted for it) but find it's a downgrade from TextPad on Windows. Where are:
* Word/Character/etc. count?
* Macro record/playback?
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Seconded - if Gedit can have a wordcount why not Kate? I found a couple of addons that should give a wordcount, but only one, an external tool, actually works for me, and I have to recreate it whenever Kate is updated.
And the lack of macro is absurd in a progging editor, I had to brush the dust off 98SE the other day to do a bulk edit with TextPad. If TextPad were ported to Linux I would be using it. |
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02-17-2006, 02:09 AM
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#110
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Guru
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: ~
Distribution: Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Solaris, DSL
Posts: 5,339
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TextPad works perfectly in Linux with vanilla wine. I've tried it myself a couple of times... Though, my vote goes for jEdit. A very good example of what Java applications can do. Very customizable and platform independent as well. I can use vi if I need to make quick edits in a config file, nothing more  |
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02-17-2006, 04:23 PM
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#111
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2005
Posts: 4
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nano for the win!!
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02-17-2006, 05:27 PM
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#112
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Sep 2005
Distribution: Xubuntu Edgy AMD64/"Wintendo"
Posts: 19
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Originally Posted by foxy123
I would vote for mousepad, which is fast, light and has everything I need...
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Another mousepad fan here. Xfce4 users can't go past it for it's simplicity and speed. |
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02-18-2006, 02:21 AM
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#113
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Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Vulcan
Distribution: *buntu - Slackware - Anything on USB
Posts: 254
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Need to try more!
I have only ever used Kate. I guess I should download others and try them. Never thought there would be a debate over a text editor!
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02-18-2006, 06:16 PM
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#114
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2006
Posts: 1
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Vim or vim or vim or vim...
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02-18-2006, 07:58 PM
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#115
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Bawstun area
Distribution: Suse (10.2, 10.3), CentOS, and Ubuntu
Posts: 1,794
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Originally Posted by DrEwMoNeY
Never thought there would be a debate over a text editor!
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You must be new here!  |
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02-18-2006, 08:32 PM
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#116
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Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Vulcan
Distribution: *buntu - Slackware - Anything on USB
Posts: 254
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Actually, I've been here since the 70's! |
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02-18-2006, 09:12 PM
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#117
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Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Posts: 52
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Pico takes the cake. Easiest to use on the console. Much easier than Vi
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02-19-2006, 05:26 AM
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#118
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: 35.7480° N, 95.3690° W
Distribution: Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, Solaris
Posts: 2,070
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vim, vim, vim. It will always be vim!  |
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02-19-2006, 10:02 PM
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#119
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Member
Registered: Jul 2005
Location: Northern California
Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux
Posts: 32
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I like using nano best.
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02-20-2006, 01:46 AM
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#120
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2005
Posts: 5
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Kate is soooo good... Almost perfect  |
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