Text Editor of the Year

weirdwolf · 12-28-2014, 02:45 PM

leafpad, my needs are simple

Tux! · 12-29-2014, 03:28 AM

Could you add "elvis"?

jeremy · 12-29-2014, 11:39 AM

I don't believe elvis is actively maintained at this point, which is desired for new additions to the MCA's.

--jeremy

Tux! · 12-30-2014, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

I don't believe elvis is actively maintained at this point, which is desired for new additions to the MCA's.

--jeremy

Yes it is: github.com:mbert/elvis

Last commit: 23 Dec 2014, which IMHO is pretty recent

jeremy · 12-30-2014, 11:02 AM

Interesting to note that github page links to a page that says "Sadly it seems like there is no active development on Elvis these days." (which is the same page I ended up on when doing a little research). I've added elvis.

--jeremy

brianL · 12-30-2014, 02:41 PM

In Slackware, vi is a link to elvis, but vim is vim.

dunne · 12-31-2014, 12:59 AM

It is a curious conceit, that software which is finished should nevertheless be "actively maintained".

aniketmeshram · 12-31-2014, 04:06 AM

vim.
I've integrated so many things with vim.
Once you get used to it, its really fun to code.
It's really useful.

mihaimdl · 12-31-2014, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by astrogeek

Vim, is there any other?

Yes! Geany!

flshope · 01-02-2015, 03:57 PM

For years I used NEdit, but I finally couldn't put up with the endless clipboard locks anymore. I learned emacs and wish I had done so long ago.

enorbet · 01-04-2015, 01:14 PM

Elvis and vim are still at heart just vi and vi rules all, and yes Mr. Stallman that includes your lil' dog, Toto, too.
Toto, too?
Yes...Toto, too.

vi! It's crunchy!

average_user · 01-05-2015, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by onlyonemac

I chose Pluma because I like that text editor a lot (and it's the one that comes with the MATE desktop environment that I use) but for a command-line text editor I prefer nano to the more popular vim and emacs because I just can't understand why the other two have to be so ridiculously complicated (nano allows one to enter text just by typing on the keyboard; the other two require many obscure keypresses and the changing of "modes" before one can even attempt to insert text).

In Emacs you can insert text right away after after starting it. When I look back I think it was one of the reasons I chose Emacs instead of vi when I started using Linux regularly. vi is much popular than Emacs from my experience and even Emacs users should know Vim basics. I gave my vote for Emacs in this poll.

smeezekitty · 01-05-2015, 02:37 PM

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I prefer nano to the more popular vim and emacs because I just can't understand why the other two have to be so ridiculously complicated

Because they are much more powerful at the expensive of a slight
learning curve. It really isn't hard to hit "i" and start typing
text and hit escape to control the editor. It becomes
second nature pretty quickly

jamison20000e · 01-05-2015, 03:45 PM

Text is text, editors are slightly more work... unless you use a pencil (and even then?)

smeezekitty · 01-05-2015, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by jamison20000e

Text is text, editors are slightly more work... unless you use a pencil (and even then?)

Pencil and paper is a lot more work for me. I have a typing monitor that shows that I am peaking at 120 WPM right now.
On the other hand, I am very slow at writing on paper. A text editor is much simpler than pencil and paper in my case