Text Editor of the Year
 

Always an interesting poll.

--jeremy

I use and like Nano it's simple and gets the job done.

Sometimes I'll use vi-

vim first and vi second, gogo

Leafpad works for me.

vim of course, no girls' editors on my servers, where are ed and ex ;-)
(I am joking)

[no I'm not]

I used to be schizophrenic but I'm ok noooooow

Good old VI. She once saved me from death when i didnt have a gui.

geany

I voted Emacs but it's the first year that I had problems deciding. This year I've been using vim more and more.

Emacs does all of my heavy lifing

I manage with KWrite in X, and nano in console/CLI. Every year I keep telling myself I should learn how to use vi/vim/elvis, but it never happens. :redface:

I would love to see Leo Editor. But i am to late.

Kate

vi is available on any system and simple tasks don't need any deeper knowledge :-)

Emacs always!

For me, it's Vim, followed by Vi and Nano. Despite the fact that it's 2012, the CLI isn't going anywhere!

Always the hardest for me.

I chose Vim, but that's almost like saying vi, and I would really like to see a tabulation of each of them, as well as both of them, since so many Vim users will simply pick 'vi', as I did last year.

It just seems that the resulting rank for either one will be diluted by the other. I know we've discussed this before, but maybe next year vi/VIM would be a good selection instead of having one for each of them.

But then even that is a close call, sometimes I use gVIM, even though I find it kinda weird.

And I love Bluefish, Geany, Kate, and Eric IDE and use them all. I also use Leafpad and Beaver sometimes too for down and dirty quick things.

Hm... RedCar... I'm not familiar with that one I'll have to check it out!

Oh, and if you're running Slackware, I think vi is still Elvis, isn't it? ;)

Can we list Beaver here too?

This is so fun!

Gedit - The only gnome program I am still using, I just can't find one that's better or more versatile.

What would we do without vim

Ho Ho Ho Ho VIM VI V0 .

VIM and Vi are the only mates allow on my ship you Swashbucklers!

I've added Leo to the IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year category.

--jeremy

VIM

VIM - love it.

Geany

Emacs~

i have become one of those emacs guys this year.

... though, props to joe. suse have joe as standard, and it makes sense. joe has modes for emacs, vi, and more control methods.

but still... i'm voting emacs. ^_^ i dont know another text editor i can use for irc, for video editing, for making ascii art, for... the list is quite, quite extensive. but even tho i just use it as a text editor these days, it's still winning me over, more and more. testimony to using mature software.

nano for me, but I'm learning vi just in case!

Plain ol' gedit seems to do everything I need. No reason to get fancy when simple gets the job done. :D

Pluma?
 

I'd have voted for Pluma if it were available.

I really like Geany. I use it for everything from config files to web design and Python. I actually started using it a few years ago on Windows oddly enough. Through SSH and outside of X, I stick to nano.

Why even have this poll? VIM is and always will be king in this department.

Whenever I have to use anything other than Vim, it feels like somebody forced me to type using a single index finger.

KDevelop4\GUI and vim if i have to???learn!

I could pick gedit and vim but they're not my bests.

"Pluma" for me these days.

Vim, although I use gedit from time to time.

I like now TEA Text Editor. I use it under Ubuntu 12.04. It works fine with different encoding. With it I trancoded into UTF-8 many Russian subtitles files for Israelite moves. No one text editor can do this, and so quickly.

Leafpad

vi/vim and Mousepad here.

Regards.

I voted gedit, for it's tabbed abilities and colored text, although I most often use Kate because if its integration with KDE.

Gedit, will use vi if I really have to.

My favorite command-line editor is "emacs -nw" but I had to pick Geany because it compiles my code for me and is thus invaluable for my needs. (:

Kate - this is Sparta! :)

vim (because recently i am transitioning to CLI tools ) but mousepad is also pretty good !

Geany and the Midnight Commander Editor (mcedit) on the CLI. It is integrated with mc and is not only the easiest to use on the command line (no need to learn anything), but has also a very good set of features.

Vi (nvi is my choice to be more precise). In 2012 I discovered enpi script for joe editor, and I just couldn't stop typing in joe and printing letters. So I voted for joe as the editor of the year. However, always going back to Vi (nvi) from joe/enpi if I don't need GUI-looking formatted letters.

But that's for an old carry-everywhere laptop where I don't have any graphic environment. On my PC tower at home I use plain Leafpad and Libreoffice. Vi too in xterm occasionally, as I have xterm bound to ctrl+alt+t so it's quite a quick way to use vi.

Since I mostly use CLI for editing VIM all way! Although much respect to Geany for GUI editing. In fact maybe this should be two polls, one for CLI and one for GUI.

There is another one for IDEs, so I actually commited a mistake here: should have voted for mcedit instead of Geany here, and Geany there, but it seems I can't change my vote anymore :(

Yeah I think Geany is officially an IDE; however, I'm glad it's listed here as although it is my favorite GUI text editor, it is not my favorite IDE. Wait since CLI editors were included I voted for VIM anyways. :p

Emacs without a doubt

Vim. Emacs Ctrl + Meta keys are insane.... Vim can do a lot of what Vi could't. :)