Text Editor of the Year
 

Always an interesting poll.

--jeremy

KWrite, because I like KDE, and it supports coding as well, like shows you where the functions are in your code, and displays different things in different colors to show different parts of your code. Like for example, the text in printf statements are in a different color to separate it from the actual code, so you can visually see that it's just the text that would be displayed on the screen.

...vi the most... :hattip:

I'll take sam this year (basically, a visual ed). :)

edit: It is a hard choice though. There's still Acme and TECO...
Still no multiple choices this year. :(

gotta vote geany again.
rightly, it is both in the IDE and text editor section.
though i never understand where the borderline is; i'm just not enough of a coder i guess.
but text (code, config) editing without syntax highlighting - impossible.

Have you tried it? :)

Clearly not impossible seems how the average teacher wouldn't want you useing it, while starting with the fundamentals. ;)

I ticked vim because you haven't included gvim.

Leafpad, it's all I've ever used.

emacs - it works as fullscreen GUI on my 4K monitor, and just as fine in a TMUX terminal on my Nokia N900. what else does one need...?

I went with neovim. It currently has better support for the best plugins (deoplete, languageClient-neovim, semshi) than regular vim does.

It has to be nano.
Seriously.

Medit. Simple, fast does the job when I need a quick and dirty edit of something where pico just won't do, and it's not worth the effort of firing up Netbeans.

leafpad

Text Editor of the Year: gedit
 

K.I.S.S.

Vim. In the GUI, Kate. Though Terminator is kind of neat.

Off topic:Yes, multiple choices would not affect the results but let us vote the way we want. What is the fear a tie?

i found medit to lag in certain situations, have you noticed that also?
i use geany always, and i think it's very similar to medit. have you compared?

Kate has this peculiar KDE flexibility ... ;)

I like Medit but don't use it as it's got no spellcheck AFAIK.

Emacs

I'm waiting for someone to design an editor called

Yeah they did, it's called the MS-DOS editor :p

I remember using that back in the day...

I remember it too. It was a TUI editor, quite nice to use (especially compared with edlin!)

Emacs is really advanced and I love it, although to be honest it takes some time to get used to

Voted Leafpad.

I always install Leafpad as a secondary GUI text editor on all of my computers.

Notepadqq?
 

Where's Notepadqq? C'mon now! :doh:

Added.

--jeremy

Leafpad
 

Same here!

:eek: I'm surprised, too many editors for me. I vote for vim.

Honestly, I'm torn between vim and xed. They're both great text editors, although one serves some of my needs, while the other serves the rest.

Though, Notepadqq looks interesting. I've never heard of it before, but I'm curious, so I'm going to try it.

Use Kate most often, followed by nano, then vi.

Midnight Commander Editor, 1st place, followed by Mousepad and Kwrite.

Nano and/or Mousepad

Emacs this year, I am a vim guy, but for the past year for some odd reason I really do not understand, I have been using Emacs more and more.

Welcome to the dark side, jmccue.

Only use nano for a distribution's original set-up.
I say Vim in 1st, followed by Sublime & Atom. I keep both the Sublime & Atom text editors set up on secondary rigs that family members use.

Leafpad, the Rodney Dangerfield of text editors.

I've been using vi for years...I just wish I could figure out how to get it to save and exit... :P

where is ed(1)?
does anybody still use it?
I use vi primarily but have used sam.
I tried emacs once, it was too easy, you just start typing.
I use ed occasionally and am glad it is there.

Jeremy does not want to add ed, obviously. But sam is almost the same thing... :)

I am voting for gedit.

That is not to say the others are better, it is because I am only starting to learn how to uses text editors and am starting with gedit.

So, I am voting with a lack of experience as a beginner with text editors.Maybe next year I will vote differently.

It's too bad Kakoune isn't on the list. It's inspired by vim, but has subtle changes (and a few not-so-subtle ones), and is a lot more minimalist. Vim is my second favorite editor, though.

vim in cli mode , leafpad in gui mode.

Nano & Mousepad

Voted Vim. It's mostly the key movements that I like.

I'm giving a good think to 'moving into' Emacs (with evil-mode), again. I feel like a few of the tools I use just don't integrate very well, despite being of the 'Unix tradition': vim, tmux, etc. We'll see.

Geany has replaced gedit and Kate as my favorite Linux text editor. In Windows I have used EditPad Pro for the last 17 years.

emacs. No question for me. To call it an editor is an understatement -- it's an operating system with GNU and Linux (or BSD or Solaris or ...) as its kernel. (And apperantly I have to learn about geany....)

NeoVim (and its official AppImage)
 

Easily NeoVim for me.

It's very easy to test on Linux because its latest version is always available as an AppImage from the NeoVim developers themselves. I do not need to wait for my $distro's packager to create an RPM, DEB or whatever first...