Am I the only one who uses emacs?

No, I think RMS uses it as well. :)

Thanks, that's comforting.

kwrite

vim FTW
:)

vi will do if vim is not avail eg commercial Unices

Ironically, this is exactly the reason I ended up learning VI/Vim oh so long ago.

My favorite editor of all time is TPU, then edit /tpu, then when I had to deal with Unix more I ended up with VI.

There is a TPU type emulation for Emacs, but it doesn't do a very good job (no offense to the dev - it's a nice try). It made it so slow and cumbersome (and simply didn't do a lot of stuff). So back to VI.

VI of course lead to Vim which has become very nearly universal :D

I will take my Lisp-aware Emacs, thank you very much. Truth be told, though, I have gotten to like VI (VI != VIM).

Could anyone tell me, why no modern, VI(M) implementation has Lisp-mode any more? In my copy of The Ultimate Guide to the VI and EX Text Editors (1990), it says there is a Lisp-mode, but if you check through the man pages for VI on any BSD, they say that Lisp-mode is not yet implemented.

Should be accessible through:

Kate is Kewl

Hi Librano,
You lost your choice. KATE is there.

• vim
• vi
• emacs
• Kate
• leafpad
• jEdit
• nano
• gedit
• pico
• Nedit
• joe
• Scite
• Midnight Commander Editor
• KWrite
• Mousepad
• Scribes
• medit

+1 to both

Gedit
 

It's there ready in my daily use distro with no frills or fuss. It works so i haven't really tried others. Nice enough gui.

I also like vi when i was stuck on a command-line for a little while. Very nice :) Scite is pretty. It seems a lot of work has gone into making a lot of nice text-editors to suit different ppl for different purposes. That's what i really like. If i was forced to use only the 1 text-editor i would resent it but having the choice allows me to relax and enjoy it :)

Thanks all and regards from
Tom :)

Kate vs. Kwrite
 

I only recently installed KDE 4.x along with SuSE 11.2. There is a new Kwrite there which is a real lot improved over the older version(s). I voted for Kate but I'm not sure that this came about only because I have no experience with Kwrite yet...

vi forever!

(I have to confess, though, that I really like and use TextWrangler on my Mac desktop. But routine editing on my servers is always with vi.)

nano and geany

I use only vim and geany (not listed here)