Text Editor of the Year
 

Always an interesting poll.

--jeremy

VIM - so many useful tweaks.

gedit, a rather sentimental pick for me, it was the first one I remember using way back when, still use it when I can, just because.

geany and nano

vim on the desktop and vi on the NAS

ed is still missing :(

So I'll have to go with Emacs.

KKEdit but then I'm biased :)

Leafpad

I voted for Geany which is useful for doing HTML pages, .desktop pages, and for editing the Openbox rc.xml . I sometimes use Leafpad for small text pages and Vi to edit pages in a terminal.

geany voted
nano caused me once recently an unbootable box. It has issues with copy and paste in X with mate-terminal?

Geany is hard the beat for speed and capabilities, my 2nd choice is Vim, the Cli version of course:) a full feature text editor even on a barebones, no X system.

Visual Studio Code
 

Visual Studio Code would be another option in this poll.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
Like Atom editor , more responsive.

( Later I see it is included in IDE poll section. )

Vim / Neovim
 

Been using vi since 1986, started using vim with Linux late 1993 and am happy with both vim and (sometimes) gvim. But I will certainly give neovim a try

VIM. Used many years. Does the job.

Elvis. I sometimes use gvim, but then immediately see why I love elvis. If elvis is not available, I'd go for gvim. Next up are plain good ol' vi then ex.
I hate the unintuitiveness of emacs

I ticked vim, but what I really like is gvim.

mousepad. Works just fine for quick and simple editing.

leafpad, I don't need much.

I like Scite. So sue me!

Is medit : http://mooedit.sourceforge.net?

Or typo: mcedit ?

I definitely vote Emacs as "Editor of the Year" as this last year this fairly ancient bit of software has picked up an awful lot of steam.

The Melpa package repo has been boiling with new releases of very nifty packages.

Emacs may be old, but wow! It is alive and very active!

Why no Visual Studio Code? Pretty much Atom, but way more responsive - https://www.google.lt/search?q=atom+...hrome&ie=UTF-8

As KDE-user Kate (or sometimes kwrite)...

Actually, I either use vi or nano most of the time. ;)

(I think I voted for mcedit, because that is what I use when I'm using mc. :) )

VSCode is in the IDE category.

--jeremy

Shouldn't Atom be in the IDE category as well?

It is, and has been since the beginning.

--jeremy

It's also here, so it could win twice while the almost identical VS Code only gets one chance. Just wondering!
Sorry.

vi/vim - can't go wrong!

Sublime BUT...
 

This was an interesting vote. 90% of my text editing is done in Midnight Commander. You can't beat it for light weight text editing, OTOH for major text editing I love Sublime since the colored text makes it easy to keep track of where you are.

Well, Kate colors according to a lot of programming language schemes and shows additionally near the right margin a picture(!) of the entire text with all indentations and a window-like marker of the position where you are just working...

So does Emacs. :cool:

There is an Emacs plug-in for that. :)

Geany
 

Use it since a couple of years, happy with it, but will be more happy if some more (even if prorietary...) languages will be configured for enhance editing (ex.: PlSql, vb, ...)

My buddy is a fan of Vi, whereas I tend to do most of my editing in mc. I have been using mc and, without meaning to date myself, its predecessor Norton Commander -- yes from the days of DOS 3.3 some 30+ years ago -- which is a small but powerful utility that allows me to do everything, including text editing.Originally I got Sublime more for my buddy when he is working on my machine, since he feels more comfortable using Vi, than for myself, and for the rare occasions where I needed something more powerful than mc. While exploring Sublime together he discovered that does some crazy stuff that Vi does not do (I think he said something programming languages or some such thing, but don't quote me on that). For me most of my editing is light duty work that if it involves coding or some such thing is usually confined to a modification of a line or two, the rest is simply text editing and mc is more than up to the job for that -- one does not need an elephant gun to kill a mosquito, but its nice to have the elephant gun if there is a likelihood you may need to shoot an elephant. I have discovered there are times when editing stuff is either foolish or not possible in mc, I can in Sublime, and now find myself using it -- no matter how rarely -- more and more often.

Most of the time it's Pluma. But when I need a fully-featured one, it's still Emacs ;)

I voted for vim because it is my go to editor.

From people who are Vi and Vim people Sublime is "sort of like Vim but on Steroids" (a direct quote I have no way to know). I myself am a mc type of person but still voted for Sublime because its the BIG gun you haul out when you need to do SERIOUS editing -- thankfully for me I seldom need to do a whole lot of that type of editing. I'd encourage you to download a copy and play with it. The transition from Vim to Sublime probably will take you almost no time at all I'd guess.

On the command-line, vi*, pico/nano, and theoretically MCE or (if still works) SETEdit, and I used to like KATE, but please add Notepadqq. It's like Notepad++ (free Windows program inspired by Notepad and the original ultra-useful/-powerful commercial tabbed text-editor/IDE, UltraEdit) but for GNU/Linux, and is like KATE for X Window System & KDE, but not KATE's all-insufficient/-buggy/-broken tab bars (and Notepadqq is also like gedit for GNOME but automatically does some/many advanced things gedit requires manual setup.) Like KATE & gedit, Notepadqq doesn't force you to use it like an IDE so much as some others on the list... every such thing can be configured so it can be just a text editor, or mainly an IDE, or a very nice balance of both.

I went for Xed 'cos it comes with Cinnamon DE. But I also use BlueFish to edit text files.

But I'm not fussy at all and I have experimented with vi and vim.

gedit was the first one I ever used when I converted from $$ to Linux with Ubuntu 8.04 back in 2008.
I have enjoyed the elegant simplicity of leafpad when using LXDE on Debian.
Scite is pretty cool, I discovered it as a Linux alternative to the $$ version of Notepad++ a long time ago. Scite has a few add-ons that I found useful. I haven't used it in a long while, maybe now is the time to give it a spin.

Kwrite, Kate and nano, in that order.
So my choice Kwrite.

Vim all the way! :D

VIM, as its easiest for me to use when I login remotely to my work PC and still need something powerful.

vim

gedit - for gui or command line use.

Atom, the text colouring is cool and the plugin system is awesome

Atom Warning
 

Yes, BUT, my software tool gives a warning that Atom is not sandboxed, so has access to your documents. That kept me from trying it out. gedit does not display the warning.

Don't like vi-based editors. Voted for mcedit.
Do you know/remember edit.com from old windows? I looking for something like this for linux console. I want to:
1) have working mouse
2) "normal" select,copy,paste (with mouse and keyboard shift, ctrl+c,ctrl+v)
3) pull down menu, which I don't have to memorise
4) should accept paste, when I connect via ssh, from putty etc. (I use Linux at home, but most PC in my surroundings are windows based.
5) easy find it in various distributions, eventually simple install.

Nano.

I use nano sometimes, but I checked it now and there are not:
1) select with shift
2) ctrl+c/ctrl+v even when I select with mouse
3) can't delete text, selected with mouse

I can copy with mouse (in Linux console style)
So this is not what I'm looking for. Anyway thanks for advice.

leafpad