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View Poll Results: Editor of the Year
vi/vim
588
37.96%
emacs/xemacs
134
8.65%
jEdit
28
1.81%
nano
150
9.68%
pico
49
3.16%
Kate
348
22.47%
gedit
122
7.88%
Nedit
32
2.07%
joe
30
1.94%
Scite
19
1.23%
Midnight Commander Editor
49
3.16%
01-28-2006, 04:05 PM
#1
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 7,141
Thanked: 164
Text Editor of the Year
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This one is always fun
01-28-2006, 04:22 PM
#2
Guru
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Seymour, Indiana
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
Posts: 5,697
Thanked: 6
Of course vi here.
Maybe nano or pico.
But for gui I would go with nedit
01-29-2006, 12:50 PM
#3
Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: St. Louis, MO
Distribution: Slackware 11.0
Posts: 551
Thanked: 0
I don't see my favorite.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/GXedit/
Jed is anather one I like.
I guess I'll pick....
-tw
<edited later on>
I realize, theres only about 1000 text editors... I guess it'd be unrealistic to
list all of them, or even the 100 most popular... I'm not complaining.
Last edited by tw001_tw; 01-29-2006 at 01:26 PM ..
01-29-2006, 12:56 PM
#4
Member
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: England, South East
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 358
Thanked: 0
haha this is tough, vim is my console favourate and kate is my gui i use for java hmm.
01-29-2006, 05:06 PM
#5
Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: The grassy knoll
Distribution: Slackware,Debian
Posts: 192
Thanked: 0
01-29-2006, 05:08 PM
#6
Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS & FreeBSD
Posts: 994
Thanked: 0
vi, vi, vi...
01-29-2006, 05:12 PM
#7
Member
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: upNorth
Distribution: openSuSE/uBuntu
Posts: 410
Thanked: 0
I love you, Kate :-D
01-29-2006, 06:56 PM
#8
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Maryland, USA
Distribution: SUSE 10.0
Posts: 18
Thanked: 0
Kate and I are gonna get married!
01-29-2006, 09:25 PM
#9
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2005
Posts: 20
Thanked: 0
Kate definitely for GUI, Nano for console
01-29-2006, 10:02 PM
#10
Member
Registered: May 2005
Distribution: DSL, Debian, Ubuntu
Posts: 136
Thanked: 0
I gotta go with vi/vim, its always there for me.
01-29-2006, 10:07 PM
#11
Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Roughly 29.467N / 81.206W
Distribution: FreeBSD, NetBSD
Posts: 1,448
Thanked: 0
I had to vote for vi as well. Although, I've been playing with Acme in Plan9 and that's pretty cool as well.
01-29-2006, 10:14 PM
#12
Registered User
Registered: Dec 2003
Posts: 2,832
Thanked: 9
The vote goes to Kate. I also like the way you can easily switch between files with Kate.
01-30-2006, 01:36 AM
#13
Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Lithuania
Distribution: Hybrid
Posts: 2,220
Thanked: 7
Pico for console (it's easier for me to do smth than with vi) and gedit for gui.
01-30-2006, 04:38 AM
#14
Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Lelystad, NL
Distribution: Debian Etch
Posts: 123
Thanked: 0
I use nano on console and Mousepad for GUI.
01-30-2006, 04:47 AM
#15
Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Out
Posts: 3,313
Thanked: 3
no xvi? lets take vi then, what else?
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