Text Editor of the Year
 

This one is always fun ;)

--jeremy

As a console based editor i tend to use vim. In KDE i like kate / kwrite. Scite looks good on ms windows.
I think each editor has its advantages and drawbacks.

How does the voting actually works? Can't find the button to select one of those... (haha)

This poll is closed? whats with this

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=514928

The polls don't open until tomorrow.

--jeremy

I use a lot of those depending on what I want to do. KWrite is like scrap paper for me. I rarely save things I use KWrite for but I still use it. I definitely use vim whenever possible. I've aliased vi to vim on my computer so that I don't make any mistakes in getting to my baby. I also use gvim every so often but it looks funky and I don't know how to personalize it. I still use it though. vi/vim has my vote.

Is it possible to include gvim in with vi,vim? It's just as useful and it does get used. Plus it's only fair... xemacs is bundled with emacs. ;)

Editor war :D where's the popcorn!

Nano is my choice. Quick, simple. I don't program so a quick "nano -w" to edit config files is all I need.

Where’s sam (you know, from plan9)? Anyway, since it wasn’t there, I voted for vi.

Ye , i love to vi vi !

The answer is vi, all you heretics!

{frob23 sharpens his sword and prepares for the coming religious war.} ;)


Is it this time of the year already? Seems like only a couple months ago I was voting for last year's. Where did the time go?

vi for console, gedit for gui (mine anyways).

:q!

need i say anything else?

Vim is all the way... but I vote for Kate.

vi, the most powerful editor.

I agree :)

Nano...plain, easy to use!

Why isn't ed on the list?! it is _The_ standard editor!

And where are all the Emacs guys? I want to see a war here :)

Vim for sure, even though, I'm still using nano after I upgraded to 64bit Gentoo.. Too lazy to type "emerge vim" to my shell which is always open on the background. :(

Kate
 

Still using Kate. I don't like console based ones very much (if I need one over SSH I use nano).

Emacs (-nw)! I love hotkeys!

console; mcedit
GUI; Geany

vi / vim for me. Simple as they come and they do c/c++ source code highlighting and formating.

Jeremy,

Could it be possible (not too late ???) to add mousepad editor to your poll list ?

It's a simple texte editor now being embedded in the xfce 4.4 series.

I like it's simple design and easy of use for typing litte memo.

Thanks.

Chris

vi editor is the Best... (it's king of Editors)

i voted for vi. it really amazes me to see how cool and inituitive it feels to use vi once u know most of its features. viewports is by far the coolest. hehe.

vi/vim... no cure for this addictness ;)

shouldn't this be "best vi implementation"?

are there other editors?

;)

Voted for gedit. I've been using KWrite mostly on KDE, but when I moved my new desktop to FC6 I decided to try Gnome, and I found gedit. At the cli I use joe. I never could get my head round vi, and for some reason never got to emacs.

where are all my emacs brethren?!

My choices:
Nano for terminals,
Gedit (or xfce's Mousepad) for GUI

Cheerio,
Petra

Some people need to get out more
 

Here's one (I guess). I do use vim for quick edits, but if I want to do some serious editing, there's no question about the fact that emacs is the way to go. While this obviously falls into the religious war category, I'd really suggest you vi people give emacs a serious look. Yes, things are done differently, but the fact that you can "easily" extend emacs to do things that you want is a huge win.

Cheers.

Jim

My favourite is vi!!!

i vote for vi/vim.
for konsole is vi/vim, and gvim for X.

I use joe, perhaps not the best but its what I use..

for quick edits => nano :D

We'll consider Mousepad for next year.

--jeremy

This is easy.

Just press F12, watch Yakuake slide down and type vi <Enter> for the simplest, quickest, and most powerful editor at your hands.

Anything else is just silly.

console -> nano!
everything else -> Kate!!!

gedit!! tabs for a text editor?! fuckin brilliant!

Vim on console, GVim in X. It just works.

My signature says it all.

Glory to Emacs for ever and ever! There is none more powerful!

Apply Greenspun's rule to text editing: "Any sufficiently complicated vi implementation contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Emacs."

Remember the Number of the Beast is: vi vi vi

But seriously, vi is great for quick edits, but contrasted to the raw power and flexibility that Emacs offers (I read email / Usenet / RSS in it for crying out loud) there's just no comparison. Emacs Lisp gives you much more power than any other editor programming system. It may take a long time to fully grasp that power, but it's there ... waiting ... biding its time in the quiet places of the world ... :)

Like that taylor about "vi vi vi.

I would have to admit that I like elvis(vi clone)

I use vim be it in CLI or in GUi. Vim's been my all time favourite editor.

Thanks you vim !! ;-)

When I started with Linux I flipped a coin. Which editor? It became Emacs. Only later did I come to appreciate what an awesome editor vi is (too). But the vote goes to my workhorse: joe. Emacs and vi will win enough votes anyway.

Bah, I'll use emacs only when editing Lisp (for the Slime environment)... but other than that, it's pointlessly bloated. Almost like a Microsoft product but without even managing to look good.

And this isn't from lack of understanding of the power. I've gone through the stage where you use emacs for everything (email, web, file management, and sometimes even editing!!!) but frankly, most of the time I just want an editor that edits.

And, for extensibility, I can just pipe anything from vi through a command line program or script to get what I want. Not only is it easy to do... but later I can use the same script or series of commands on a file without opening an editor if I don't want to; so, the commands I am accustomed to using have universality beyond the inside of an editor.

Then again, when do emacs people ever leave their editor? They only need Linux to provide the device drivers and the filesystem.

SciTE
 

I use scite for coding, mousepad (I'm in Xubuntu) for quick editing or conf files, and vim when in the console. :)

Geany which isn't up there, so I'll pass on this poll.

I use leafpad, but it's not on the list.

vim will win this race. ;-)