Favorite Text Editor.
 

What's your favorite text editor. Mines vim. This include programming and editing files. I like vim because it's on almost every *NIX (except gentoo) and if it's not on it vi is which has the same commands essentially
EDIT: Also visudo uses vi so getting used to vim lets me us visudo. Except for debian, every time I run visudo I debian I always type :wq and think that debian screwed visudo up by using nano

DAMN I forgot to make it multiple choice

VI til I die!

I'm getting better at vi, but why is kate not on the list while gedit is?

WOW! Really stupid mistake I meant jEdit sorry

I like Gedit, but vi always everywhere.

Emacs :)

Gedit & Nano...

Just recently started to learn EMACS, and now I'm a convert. Very powerful features, which deals with text files in a way that is logical to me.

KWrite, nano, and Emacs.

"Medit" is also a good editor.

Vim is ok. For everything else, there's Emacs.

Emacs isn't an editor. It's a way of life.

Emacs - Great Operating System, Decent Editor - zacharypinter.com
A guided tour of Emacs

;)

Whichever is the distro's default when I select a file to edit. Personally, I don't see enough difference to make a fuss... unless you know of one that does rocket science or brain surgery. :D

I've been using vi since 1988, and I'm getting used to it now.

Nano for the CLI, whatever I'm given (Gedit, leafpad) for the GUI. I did try an Emacs tutorial once, but I recovered after a bar of chocolate and a lie-down.

what about TECO - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector? its commands were even more obscure that vi! couldn't resist. ;)
teco ran on just about every piece of hardware and o/s in the world, long before there was such a thing as vi or emacs. in fact, the original emacs was written in teco!
-mark

I didn't think that was possible. Well except for maybe ed.

I recently started using ed for small files just out of curiosity. It really isn't so bad, especially if you already know your way in vi and sed.

You need to include "gvim" (GUI based vim) which can be compiled with different GUI/Desktop flavors. I use it when I can and fall back to vim and if I have to to vi.

Please note that Fedora uses an alias for vi that runs vim, which prevents it from running in "vi" mode. Vi is really crude compared to vi.

I used to use vim for speed, until I was faced with an archiac Alpha True 64 which only had vi and I felt embarrssed that I could not handle it efficiently. Subsequently I tried hard to get used to vi and with enough patience, I am finding it marginally better than vim. Anyway I expect everyone has his/her own favorite and they all should be respected.

I just had to vote for ed, even though I don't use it anymore. I mean, what could be more geeky than editing a 27 page text document, typing in nothing but line numbers, insertion commands, and substitution syntax?

Hi,

I'm using Vim.

This poll has a predictable result ;) Vim first, Emacs second and both followed by one of the "Windows-style" editors (which one can use without learning).

Markus

I didn't include gvim for 2 reasons. 1 I hate it so much. And 2 it's the same as vim but slower

Emacs, please. ( Cannot let Vim win.... ) :)

Okay, but why would one choose ed over a modern editor? It seems to me that vi must get a lot of its DNA from ed.

Billy joy uses ed. Another reason vim is better :)

My answer is TSE, The Semware Editor. See my comments in the other 'favorite editor' poll. If you used it on Win98, you'll love it on Win7 and Linux.

Leafpad, does what I need, which is not much.

Vi rocks !!!

In most cases, I cannot see why it would be beneficial to use ed. Yet, as it is so incredibly small and lightweight, I can see how it could be useful to have it available on a system with extremely low memory and processing power. For example, in the past I have had to service Linux-based graphics processing computers that had no text-editor install at all; yet ed might have been included for only about 50KB. (Restricted ED compiles to less than 1K.)

I just tried emacs. I can only say that it's a decent editor but a GREAT operating system.

nano - simply because it's fast for simple config editing and I got used to it.