Text Editor of the Year

jay73 · 01-11-2009, 04:44 AM

Scite is really great for java if you use the extensions. In many ways as functional as a full-blown IDE and it needs only fraction of the resources.

syg00 · 01-11-2009, 04:52 AM

sed ????

eerok · 01-11-2009, 07:11 AM

I think Vim is the nicest if you know how to type. Otherwise, as far as speed goes, it probably doesn't matter a whole lot.

allend · 01-11-2009, 07:15 AM

I voted for pico as I probably do more text editing with pico at the command line than anything else. When in a GUI, mousepad is fast to load and simple to use. But if I want syntax highlighting, then i use Kwrite.
I cringe every time that I need to use vi; but maybe I will learn to love it in another ten years when I have memorised fifty useful shortcut commands.

anticapitalista · 01-12-2009, 09:27 AM

nano for cli
leafpad for basic gui text editing
geany for more complex gui editing

Disillusionist · 01-12-2009, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

sed ????

I think most people would say that Stream Editing and Text Editing are not quite the same

Don't get me wrong I like sed and use it a fair bit, but for general text editing I would rather use vi.

portamenteff · 01-12-2009, 03:17 PM

Vi/Vim once I learned it does whatever I need it to do. I now use it with SSH on a remote server to edit html files even. No need to ftp, or use a gui.

anomie · 01-12-2009, 03:37 PM

Any chance of getting ee(1) (easy editor) added to this poll? I use vi personally, but I was going to vote ee (because it made a user very happy this year).

Mark7 · 01-12-2009, 03:45 PM

Actually, I must confess that I use the ROX Edit application.

Sadly I can't vote for it.

JMJ_coder · 01-13-2009, 02:38 PM

There is no text editor for me but (n)vi!

murugesan · 01-15-2009, 02:28 AM

When compared with other editors give here
I like the following more.
vi if terminal oriented.
vim on GUI.

code933k · 01-15-2009, 03:56 AM

There's something I like to name "The VIM experience" ...

The last time I checked out, I was reconfiguring my whole
setup to emulate VIM keystrokes and behavior the better
possible.

FredGSanford · 01-15-2009, 04:07 AM

nano, gedit & leafpad...depends which environment I'm using.

markush · 01-15-2009, 04:17 AM

vi(m) is always the shortest way in complex editing-situations.

Draciron · 01-15-2009, 04:42 AM

Kedit which is my personal favorite was missing for some reason.