your editor of choice...

fatman · 07-16-2003, 08:01 AM

Locally: emacs

Remotely: VIM

tincat2 · 07-17-2003, 04:46 PM

joe works for the simple stuff i do, but i am impressed with the functionality of vim and emacs-for someone who knows what he or she is doing, they've got to be potent.

ionstorm · 07-17-2003, 05:12 PM

vim or Gvim depending upon what is available.

Daem0hn · 07-17-2003, 09:32 PM

in console, vim, in X hmmm, i dont really edit in X

alfy · 07-18-2003, 09:33 AM

I use vi for the same reason any working professional would.

I know that it will be on ANY *nix system I have to work on. I don't have to worry that someone didn't load some other editor that I "like".

In business, your not paid to "like" it. Your paid to DO it.

whansard · 07-18-2003, 09:42 AM

cat & sed

poloktim · 07-20-2003, 08:00 AM

I can't use vi or vim or emacs.

No matter how hard I tried.

In X: Nedit (it colours the code depending on the language extension, how cool!).
In CLI: Nano

lokee · 07-20-2003, 02:42 PM

vim colours the text too...

kev82 · 07-20-2003, 02:57 PM

Quote:

cat & sed

LOL

Tinkster · 07-20-2003, 03:02 PM

Quote:

quote:cat & sed

LOL

That's what I thought ... even though
I might fancy that for the odd minor
modification of a system-file I certainly
wouldn't want to use this for coding ;)

Cheers,
Tink

green_dragon37 · 07-20-2003, 03:05 PM

console: vi / vim it's the only way to go.

X: gvim (ooo, pretty colors)

Ian

synaptical · 07-20-2003, 03:08 PM

vi/vim so far. as a newb it's just so easy, q = quit, w = write, x = delete, p = put, esc = escape

j points down and goes down, etc. i haven't learned emacs yet (all those control key combinations, yeck), but so far i see no need to as vim does everything i need and is intuitive in the ways mentioned.

slakmagik · 07-20-2003, 04:22 PM

Damn. Vim's kicking ass. I voted a long time ago but never posted (I do that a lot.) Just out of curiosity, I wonder how the people who voted for something other than Emacs or Vim would have voted if those were the only two choices? Because I use joe unless I'm using mc, so I use mcedit, unless I'm in X and then I pop up whichever one has whatever function I want (usually gedit) - but if I had to pick between the two, that'd be another vote for Vim.

-- Just noticed your sig, synaptical - off to edit my own.

LoungeLizard · 07-20-2003, 05:10 PM

I perfer VI but really does not matter to me, but I will say that when doing anything to config files I stay way from Pico cause it ads some special char that are not seen that can screw up a config file

2damncommon · 07-20-2003, 05:25 PM

It is best to use Pico/Nano with the -w (no word wrap) option when working with config files.
That is probably what was causing you problems, LoungeLizard.