Text Editor of the Year

jeremy · 01-20-2010, 10:25 AM

geany is in the IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year category.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-year-780665/

--jeremy

MTK358 · 01-20-2010, 12:06 PM

Currently I use Kate but I find that vim has a lot of useful little tricks that I like at the press of a key (like o to open a new line). But I still can't get past the switch-modes-to-correct-typo thing. And it would probably be worthwhile to remap the Caps Lock key to ESC.

the1sephiroth · 01-20-2010, 01:28 PM

vim gets my vote here. I don't think i've ever used real vi so I'm not sure of the differences.

ntrudaglich · 01-20-2010, 04:40 PM

Vi/Vim on the console, and Nedit for a gui.

x-nc · 01-20-2010, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ntrudaglich

Vi/Vim on the console, and Nedit for a gui.

My preference is vim in terminals and gvim for gui.

SpaceGoat · 01-20-2010, 11:47 PM

gedit: simply perfect

lingyun · 01-21-2010, 12:54 AM

I always use emacs,since two years ago!

Zeppe|in · 01-21-2010, 01:40 AM

gedit for me

greymont · 01-21-2010, 10:24 AM

What no geany?

John Wiersba · 01-21-2010, 11:49 AM

vim everywhere (unix, linux, windows native, windows cygwin)

rocker_geek · 01-21-2010, 04:06 PM

Jevan · 01-22-2010, 04:43 PM

I voted Emacs, but I actually prefer jed. However, I mainly like jed because of its semblance to Emacs (keyboard shortcuts, etc.).

FredGSanford · 01-22-2010, 10:49 PM

nano nano...

r1d3r · 01-23-2010, 12:55 AM

vim for console and gedit for GUI

MTK358 · 01-25-2010, 01:29 PM

I am in the process of learning vim, and I think I like it (still kinda hard to get used to switching modes and not using the arrow keys, though, but I'm getting used to it). So I think I vote for vim.

The only problem with gvim is that I can't copy/paste or drag n' drop text in and out of other apps with my mouse. Haven't thought of it before but maybe using vim in a terminal emulator (instead of gvim) would fix this.

For a general-purpose quick text editor I use kwrite.