Text Editor of the Year

weirdwolf · 02-04-2011, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by archaicDEBIANt

....Leafpad is just a note-thing.

Yep, Does everything I need though, which is to edit Conky.

marian57 · 02-04-2011, 10:54 PM

What happened to Xemacs?

HazMat117 · 02-05-2011, 06:58 PM

Used to use Gedit. Switched to vim this year when I started managing a small server setup. Hated it at first but now I can not believe I never switched to it earlier. It is the best basic text editor I have ever used.

allanf · 02-05-2011, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by frieza

kwrite, syntax hilighting and saves directly to FTP servers

VIM/GVIM does syntax highlighting and edit files on FTP servers and via SSH as well plus they diff 2 or 3 files as well.

Cityscape · 02-05-2011, 11:04 PM

I voted Gedit again this year, meets all my needs and work wonderfully.

Anisha Kaul · 02-05-2011, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Cityscape

I voted Gedit again this year, meets all my needs and work wonderfully.

Have ye tried Kwrite? It has got auto word completion feature too,

Cityscape · 02-05-2011, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Anisha Kaul

Have ye tried Kwrite? It has got auto word completion feature too,

No I haven't I use GNOME and LXDE and I like the keep KDE software to a minimum. A lot of KDE software is really buggy.
I have tried other text editors and some of them like Leafpad are good, but I always end up using Gedit.

grail · 02-06-2011, 06:04 PM

Can't ever go past the power of vim

frandalla · 02-07-2011, 12:42 AM

vim here. that's all I need to have.

foodown · 02-07-2011, 01:51 AM

vi is always the text editor of the year.

kwrite is nice, too. The kwrite for KDE3 was better, though.

SkyEye · 02-07-2011, 11:47 AM

Voted Vim (my main editor). But glad to see how well gedit and Redcar are doing too.

joeldick · 02-17-2011, 11:45 AM

gedit. There is nothing shameful about using a graphical editor.

danbuter · 02-21-2011, 11:44 AM

Poll is closed, but I vote gedit. Great program.

carlosinfl · 02-22-2011, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by joeldick

gedit. There is nothing shameful about using a graphical editor.

No Linux user worth their salt would us gedit over vim. I love all these guys who crutch their knowledge on gedit and then when something breaks, they have no idea how to use vi or vim to repair the system. See this all the time...

MrCode · 02-22-2011, 06:02 PM

Funny thing for me is that I can use vim (minimally), but the old standard vi just seems so much more cumbersome. Maybe it's the version of it I was using (it was on FreeBSD), but everything just seemed to be more of a pain; in vim switching to edit mode with "i" or "I" allows me to use it more or less like any other text editor (CLI or GUI), but vi is a lot more picky...

I know I already mentioned this earlier in the thread, but nano got my vote. Yeah, so I'm a wimp.

But hey, at least I don't need to be running an X server to use it!