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Originally Posted by gotfw (Post 5299817)

Interesting to see that Emacs is gaining tracion - when I mentioned it a few years back all I got were snears. Now, I think, org-mode has really brought a lot of new users to Emacs. Ironically, I don't use org-mode much. I do however, edit text, in one form or another, with pretty much evertyhing I use my computer for.

True about org-mode, it's the best. Ever since I learned it I use it for creating all TODO lists (this one is obvious), organizing my knowledge on different subjects, creating shopping lists, accessing local JIRA instance thanks to org-jira mode, creating inventory lists. The best thing about org-mode is that it's just a plain text. You can edit it with any text editor, what Emacs gives you are nice keybindings and coloring. I wondered then what is the actual reason behind org-mode usefulness. I read somewhere that org-mode just represents the way people really think, they think in points in a very simple way. They don't know out of the box if what they are thinking about at the moment is URGENT/NON-URGENT/SHOULD-GO-TO-HOME-OR-RATHER-WORK-CATEGORY.

Real life example: recently someone I know was looking for a program to keep record of books he has. He was looking for multiple programs on his Android tablet, it took me 1 second to know what should be used for this purpose: org-mode. Especially that there is a mobile org-mode for Android ;)

And yes, I know at least one guy that was a hardcore vi user that started to use Emacs along with vi because of org-mode :) Big thanks to Carsten Dominik for creating org-mode! It made my life easier, and that's the whole point of technology, isn't it?

Actually I liked both Kate and Emacs. But as I often use Kate, so I voted for it.

There is only VIM!...QVIM/VIM-qt has also become quite polished and I now prefer it to GVIM when a GUI version is required.

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Originally Posted by dr_agon (Post 5302579)

Not to my knowledge, but both can emulate WordStar :)

And Emacs can do that too, of course :)

Sublime Text 3 is my favorite. Can you add it?

Sublime Text has been added.

--jeremy

what about enabling a multi-choice voting possibility?

From http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post5292998

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While some of the recent Official LQ Polls have been multi-vote, we have no plans for that in the MCA's at this time.

--jeremy

`Curiouser and curiouser!‘ http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post5302352

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Originally Posted by jamison20000e (Post 5302188)

... For security or distros (as examples) I want to be able to vote all my favorites (like my nephews I <3 them equally!) And, unless your one of those can never have a tie score kind of people :banghead: it would only increase numbers of votes free and open software get...

Notepad++ for me ... but if anyone knows of anything that can handle _really_ big files, I would like to know ...

But when I have to do something in Linux: nano -Kw

I voted for KWrite. I've been getting into a lot more CLI of late, and I prefer vi for that.

voted sublime text, but Atom.io seems to be catching up to it's quality.

Notepad alternative

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Originally Posted by flintg (Post 5308473)

Notepad++ for me ... but if anyone knows of anything that can handle _really_ big files, I would like to know ...

But when I have to do something in Linux: nano -Kw

If you are referring to Notepad under Windows, when I must work under Windows, I usually use Wordpad, which is able to work with very large files. I don't know what the limit might be. Wordpad is rather primitive compared to linux text editor options that I prefer, but it has enough options to be useful, and I found it better than Notepad.

My favorite text editor wasn't listed, and that is nvi, which is an enhanced version of the BSD vi with binary capabilities.