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Nano for the CLI, whatever I'm given (Gedit, leafpad) for the GUI. I did try an Emacs tutorial once, but I recovered after a bar of chocolate and a lie-down.
what about TECO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector? its commands were even more obscure that vi! couldn't resist.
teco ran on just about every piece of hardware and o/s in the world, long before there was such a thing as vi or emacs. in fact, the original emacs was written in teco!
-mark
You need to include "gvim" (GUI based vim) which can be compiled with different GUI/Desktop flavors. I use it when I can and fall back to vim and if I have to to vi.
Please note that Fedora uses an alias for vi that runs vim, which prevents it from running in "vi" mode. Vi is really crude compared to vi.
I used to use vim for speed, until I was faced with an archiac Alpha True 64 which only had vi and I felt embarrssed that I could not handle it efficiently. Subsequently I tried hard to get used to vi and with enough patience, I am finding it marginally better than vim. Anyway I expect everyone has his/her own favorite and they all should be respected.
I just had to vote for ed, even though I don't use it anymore. I mean, what could be more geeky than editing a 27 page text document, typing in nothing but line numbers, insertion commands, and substitution syntax?
This poll has a predictable result Vim first, Emacs second and both followed by one of the "Windows-style" editors (which one can use without learning).
You need to include "gvim" (GUI based vim) which can be compiled with different GUI/Desktop flavors. I use it when I can and fall back to vim and if I have to to vi.
Please note that Fedora uses an alias for vi that runs vim, which prevents it from running in "vi" mode. Vi is really crude compared to vi.
I didn't include gvim for 2 reasons. 1 I hate it so much. And 2 it's the same as vim but slower
Last edited by asipper; 12-15-2011 at 05:26 AM.
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I just had to vote for ed, even though I don't use it anymore. I mean, what could be more geeky than editing a 27 page text document, typing in nothing but line numbers, insertion commands, and substitution syntax?
Okay, but why would one choose ed over a modern editor? It seems to me that vi must get a lot of its DNA from ed.
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