Text Editor of the Year

Mr. New · 01-30-2006, 04:25 PM

vim, last year I mistakenly voted for something else! (gedit) That was before I tried vim though.

jepuzon · 01-30-2006, 05:09 PM

The first time i saw Kate, i fell in love with it.

I use vi/vim for console.

BittaBrotha · 01-30-2006, 05:54 PM

nano would be editor of choice for text based and gedit/kedit for gui editors!

kolme · 01-30-2006, 06:13 PM

Mmh... tough one! I'll go for Nedit, but I use nano a lot too.

ozar · 01-30-2006, 06:55 PM

vim for commandline, but scite for gui

KimVette · 01-30-2006, 07:30 PM

What, edlin is not an option here?

(I kid, I kid)

reddazz · 01-30-2006, 07:53 PM

I always find this one difficult. KATE is very good when I am using KDE, VIM I am beginning to like, but the crown goes to EMACS (for now).

KimVette · 01-30-2006, 08:29 PM

KATE is great (I voted for it) but find it's a downgrade from TextPad on Windows. Where are:

* Word/Character/etc. count?
* Macro record/playback?

Also:
Where is an integrated diff? I miss ExamDiff and the ability to merge AND edit files in place!

Manzabar · 01-30-2006, 08:44 PM

Kate got my vote but that's because you mixed the gui with cli editors. If there were seperate categories; then it's GUI: Kate and CLI: joe. Yo, joe!

nx5000 · 01-31-2006, 01:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KimVette

Also:
Where is an integrated diff? I miss ExamDiff and the ability to merge AND edit files in place!

I miss winmerge on linux (this tool is wonderful for a programmer), I'm still looking for the same on linux. As easy, as clear, with the same diff algorithm.

gunnix · 01-31-2006, 10:07 AM

vim, but I also sometimes use nano and nedit.

raptorman · 01-31-2006, 01:14 PM

vi got my vote

wrj · 01-31-2006, 03:59 PM

i voted for vi but only because jed is not on the list

sundancekid · 01-31-2006, 06:06 PM

vim gvim here

infochen · 02-01-2006, 02:13 AM

Voted for jEdit , but also use Kate and vi (off course). I keep on trying to work with alternative options but keep on going back to jEdit.