Nedit! Definately NEdit....

For your delight and delectation, the LinuxQuestions.Org Members Choice Award 2003 for Editor of the Year and the winner was........

Vi/Vim

I thank you.

I weep for 2003.

weep all you want for 2003

ill weep for KneeLess (hands him a metal) ... how can any *weep* one use a office suite as a text *weep* editor ... *weeeep* especially one that makes its own files *weep **GASP**** incompatible with future version of itself

anyways .. i use gvim, so i voted vi .. and tho i never used emacs before .. i think i wouldn't like it that much (seeing as how it appears as emacs trys to be a shell, and chatting system, and whatever else pluss a text editor. .... when all i want is a text editor

and for "esc" in mode changes ... that never bothered me,.. when i want to change modes I'm usually done typing anyways, and love to review while i press that nifty button of death and sit back and take a sip of tea

by SciYro
ill weep for KneeLess (hands him a metal) ... how can any *weep* one use a office suite as a text *weep* editor ... *weeeep* especially one that makes its own files *weep **GASP**** incompatible with future version of itself

i have a friend who types all their latex documents in word, when they want to typeset it they copy into notepad, save as txt and scp to a unix machine. people who a) dont know better b) are very stubborn will quite happily use an office program as a txt editor.

For windows my fav is Editpad. For Linux its still Kate.

Anybody who doesn't use vim should go beat themselves on the head with a ruler. Vim is a gift from god.

vi and whatnot are only good for programing/modifying config files

nano is best for emails (as it was designed for) cause it automatically wraps the text (bad for config editing and programing)

and then theres GUI office suits for teachers to teach children that businesses are all about how a paper looks .. not what it says ..


all about what you need the editor to do

what do you mean "are there ANY decent editors for linux". Are there ANY decent editors for windows? (and just as free as the editors for linux?)

vim all the way

But I also tend to use emacs, kwrite, gedit occasionally.

emacs, because i don't know how to use vi and i don't really need to because i can just use emacs. (i guess that's a pretty stupid reason, but that's where i stand)

I'm new to all this, but I enjoyed Kate with the built-in shell and syntax highlighting. It's all so easy So Kate! (There was a guy who told people the story of how kate did this, kate did that. A guy asks "What's a kate"? Then the other guy replies, "You don't know kate? Kate manay biralo." The english translation of this (this being in Nepali) is "You don't know Kate? Kate meaning cat!". lol Ofcourse, when people can't pronounce cat, you can't help laughing

vi in the command line but in GUI I like bluefish.

do vim, not drugs.

I really don't understand why people are saying that vi, emacs and its clones are so good.
They are difficult to use and understand, which hardly make them 'the best text editor for Linux'.

Wouldn't a text editor with syntax highlighting for many different languages, an easy to use GUI etc make this sort of text editor 'the best'?

No wonder people are scared of making the switch to linux, they think they've got to use these substandard program with lots of command line crap. Bring on the GUI apps so we can get more people to convert... not scare them off with our so called 'eliteness' because we can remember a bunch of obscure commands to do anything.

Sure, if you sit at a black and white terminal all day, use vi or emacs, knock yourself out, but in the age when window managers are becoming far advanced, use the apps they are shipping with.

My vote gotes for Kate in KDE, and mcedit on the command line.... both because of the syntax highlighting, Kate has a built in console, and both are very easy to use.