Text Editor of the Year

~sHyLoCk~ · 01-08-2010, 07:38 PM

never use anything besides nano

brianL · 01-09-2010, 10:23 AM

KWrite and nano suit me fine. But I will get round to learning emacs and vi/vim someday...maybe.

gotfw · 01-10-2010, 04:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by diilbert

jEdit is the most versatile editor I have ever used (non-commercial). Although Mousepad is the best light weight editor.

I concur. JEdit is indeed quite nice. I don't use it though because of lack of support for anti-alias fonts (at least last I checked). I'm old unix greybeard and typically vote for vi or emacs but this year I'm going to be a little more open minded and ponder this a bit more before voting....

exvor · 01-10-2010, 09:02 PM

My knee-jerk reaction is for vim as well since that's pretty much all I use. But I am going to at least try emacs or some of the others and see if I enjoy any of them.

flatdog · 01-10-2010, 09:19 PM

vim.
And geany, not listed here

sumeet inani · 01-11-2010, 05:21 AM

vi is good but does not save command history,highlight search,highlight current line,autocomplete filenames
vim is for all.(backward compatibility & added friendly features)
Gedit users
If you ever had to edit a huge file.Then you will love vim.It also has multiple tabs & lot of scripting features making editing fun NOT tedious.

MBybee · 01-11-2010, 09:26 AM

Hard to say Vim is editor of the year, since I don't think they improved much this year... but it's still my all time favorite

cola · 01-11-2010, 09:30 AM

Darkmaze · 01-11-2010, 12:34 PM

where's elvis?

custangro · 01-11-2010, 01:49 PM

VI till I die

nuxrl · 01-11-2010, 09:20 PM

vi/vim

yngwin · 01-11-2010, 10:04 PM

vim for me, and if I want a gui: cream

mjjzf · 01-12-2010, 12:17 PM

Vim in the terminal, Medit with Xfce.

code933k · 01-12-2010, 12:20 PM

VIM and sometimes Kate (vim mode LOL)

JMJ_coder · 01-12-2010, 03:16 PM

vi/vim all the ways.

I really like nvi, but vim has some very handy features of its own.