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View Poll Results: Text Editor of the Year
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Atom
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12 |
2.67% |
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elvis
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9 |
2.00% |
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Emacs
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24 |
5.35% |
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Geany
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35 |
7.80% |
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gedit
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36 |
8.02% |
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jEdit
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2 |
0.45% |
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joe
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4 |
0.89% |
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Kate
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39 |
8.69% |
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KKEdit
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1 |
0.22% |
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KWrite
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16 |
3.56% |
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leafpad
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18 |
4.01% |
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medit
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7 |
1.56% |
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Midnight Commander Editor
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7 |
1.56% |
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Mousepad
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5 |
1.11% |
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nano
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43 |
9.58% |
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Nedit
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1 |
0.22% |
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pico
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2 |
0.45% |
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Scite
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2 |
0.45% |
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Sublime Text
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10 |
2.23% |
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vi
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31 |
6.90% |
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vim
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142 |
31.63% |
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Neovim
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1 |
0.22% |
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pluma
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2 |
0.45% |
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12-30-2015, 05:19 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,620
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Text Editor of the Year
Always an interesting poll.
--jeremy
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12-30-2015, 05:33 PM
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#2
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,294
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Geany
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12-30-2015, 05:59 PM
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#3
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antiX
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX using herbstluftwm, fluxbox, IceWM and jwm.
Posts: 642
Rep: 
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If in gui - for my basic needs I use leafpad. If out of X I use nano mostly and occasionally delve into vim.
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12-31-2015, 04:37 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,836
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Emacs. Because of org-mode
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12-31-2015, 04:49 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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some of the editors on that list call themselves IDE.
i'm not a programmer, but i use geany by default.
and nano. i'm too stupid for vi*.
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12-31-2015, 04:49 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2015
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, US
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 120
Rep: 
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Emacs was, is and forever will be the best text editor because of it's incredible extensibility and customizability! It works equally well in GUI and out of it. Emacs can be the text editor, IDE, terminal emulator, file manager, organizer, music player, mail client, web browser and whatever you want. Moreover it maybe the most legendary computer program in history.
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12-31-2015, 07:13 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: Columbiana, AL
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 12
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In command line mode I'll use vim or nano, graphically it's usually gedit or pluma. However, vim got my vote since pluma is missing from the poll.
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12-31-2015, 10:47 AM
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#8
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,680
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Voted nano, again, as it's pretty much the only one I use. Not feature-rich or fancy but it does the job with minimal fuss.
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12-31-2015, 10:48 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Arizona, USA
Distribution: Debian, EndeavourOS, OpenSUSE, KDE Neon
Posts: 4,028
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vim, always used it, always will. I'll use kate for quick edits to something from the gui, but if I'm doing something as root it's always vim.
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01-03-2016, 12:46 AM
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#10
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: distro hopper
Posts: 11,352
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Could you please add neovim?
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01-03-2016, 10:44 AM
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root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,620
Original Poster
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Neovim has been added.
--jeremy
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01-03-2016, 03:10 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,088
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Great category. 2 suggestions:
1. jed seems to be missing. I give it really heavy use. -- http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
2. It would be convenient to split this category into "console editors" and "Graphical-mode (X11) editors" |
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01-03-2016, 03:14 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Oct 2008
Distribution: Slackware [64]-X.{0|1|2|37|-current} ::12<=X<=15, FreeBSD_12{.0|.1}
Posts: 6,351
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Vim, of course! What are all those other things in this list for?  |
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2 members found this post helpful.
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01-03-2016, 03:18 PM
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#14
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,836
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Quote:
Originally Posted by astrogeek
Vim, of course! What are all those other things in this list for? |
Vim's dependencies?  |
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1 members found this post helpful.
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01-06-2016, 12:44 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2013
Location: /home
Distribution: Xubuntu
Posts: 126
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ed, because it is the standard. Come on, guys, someone had to bring up this joke...
Last edited by teresaejunior; 01-06-2016 at 12:54 AM.
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