like this quote from Geoff Harrison:
Definitely Vim.

Funny you should mention this...

I know a guy who passed out at his keyboard after a few too many brewskies and his sister did super glue his fingers to the keyboard! roflmao!!

For quick stuff: nano or pico; kwrite or gedit. For everything else GNU Emacs, of course!!
On Windows: EditPad Lite, and GNU Emacs, of course!!

vi was great, back in Unix. Still does my down and dirty work but I love Nano for console and Kwrite for my GUI.

Oh, and for the Emacs fanatics. I know Emacs is more powerful then all these, but it reminds me of a dollar-store multi-tool. All the tools are there, but they are weak and convoluted.

Gotta love the edit wars

darn can't vote I like and use kate,joe and mc

I voted for Nano. But really I use Gedit for GUI, and nano for CLI. I find myself using nano most of the time. Quick and simple.

vim.
power, speed, elegance.

I for one am really impressed how much gedit has improved the past year or so.

Vim has been my favourite for about two years now, when I first tried hard to get around its not-so-intuitive interface. Well, it was worth it. Vim's powerful, fast, extensible. Love it or hate it - I love it. ;)

Viva LA VIM !!

vi is a total pain in the crotch, and I love it! But then again, I like eating broken glass. Am I weird?

I used to be an emacs freak, and I still like to program with it. However, kate is the one I use mostly these days. I like language-aware editors because the colors are a real good way to tell what the editor (and, hence, the compiler) thinks you are doing. Great for finding missing quotes or parens or braces or...

In any case, these days given the choice I'll use kate.

everyone here is a winner.:rolleyes:

Ummm... you do realize that emacs has langauge specific modes and the ability to do syntax colouring?

If so, can you tell me what it is about kate that appeals to you? (At the risk of putting some real information into this thread :-)

Jim

Yeah!
 

Yeah, you are weird all right, but for eating broken glass, not for using the tool you need to get the job done. ;-)

I use both vi and Emacs, and I use them based on what is available, first and foremost, and secondly, what fits the job I am doing better. I don't limit myself to just vi and emacs, but they are more widely available. I even have copies of them on Windows at work, so when I am doing routine text editing rather than word processing, I can use vi or emacs instead of Notepad or Wordpad.

I also like using NEdit on UNIX and Linux systems when I am doing a lot of writing of documentation or composing text for articles, messages, etc.

I do NOT eat glass, however, I simply sip beverages from a glass! ;-)