your editor of choice...
 

not trying to start any holy wars, honest.

please vote, reasons why are (obviously) optional...

You left out Pico/Nano. (But then I see this is in programming...)
I think you are trying to start a holy war.
:D

I usually stick with the simplest.

On Linux: pico, kwrite.
On Win: notepad.

epm, not available outside OS/2 ... :/

In Linux: emacs with Else-mode

Cheers,
Tink

in console: vim

in X: cooledit

it's nice, fast, and has good features.

Well I voted for vim. If you would have asked me this quesion earlier, vim would be my last choice. :p funny how things can change.

Just wondering: back in the Windows-XP days, I used TextPad a lot. It there anything that good and fast available in Linux too? Sure it exists, but never really looked good enough I think.

Vim has my vote, cuz it's small and efficient; it has only what I need to work(no useless things on the sides).
It's an text editor, only a text editor... Not a coffee, vaccum [...] machine like emacs

hehe You've got my vote too :p but let's not start an vim-emacs here here shall we? :D

Tough, there is something I'd like to share with you: I once read the quote "Emacs is a great operating system, but it lacks good development". --hehe cute. But honestly, I never used emacs, so I believe I'm a little biased.

Under text mode I use the editor included with mc, under X, I use kwrite.

As for vim,emacs and the likes, I couldn't do anything useful with them because I couldn't understand how to use them!

Nedit. Sometimes i use vim, but needs a lot of time to be fully understood.

If im in the console, i prefer either pico or vi, if im outside the console i prefer QUANTA PLUS..
QUANTA ROCKS IMHO

Emacs here, don't like vi much.

So I'm first hare to say I don't like emacs and vim, I prefer something simplier - use joe in console, no preference in X.

I don't like Emacs and even less vi/vim.

In X, I use kwrite
In console, I use pico

Wheres Gedit?

Locally: emacs

Remotely: VIM

joe works for the simple stuff i do, but i am impressed with the functionality of vim and emacs-for someone who knows what he or she is doing, they've got to be potent.

vim or Gvim depending upon what is available.

in console, vim, in X hmmm, i dont really edit in X

I use vi for the same reason any working professional would.

I know that it will be on ANY *nix system I have to work on. I don't have to worry that someone didn't load some other editor that I "like".

In business, your not paid to "like" it. Your paid to DO it.

cat & sed

I can't use vi or vim or emacs.

No matter how hard I tried.

In X: Nedit (it colours the code depending on the language extension, how cool!).
In CLI: Nano

vim colours the text too... :p

LOL

That's what I thought ... even though
I might fancy that for the odd minor
modification of a system-file I certainly
wouldn't want to use this for coding ;)

Cheers,
Tink

console: vi / vim it's the only way to go.

X: gvim (ooo, pretty colors)

Ian

vi/vim so far. as a newb it's just so easy, q = quit, w = write, x = delete, p = put, esc = escape :p j points down and goes down, etc. i haven't learned emacs yet (all those control key combinations, yeck), but so far i see no need to as vim does everything i need and is intuitive in the ways mentioned. :)

Damn. Vim's kicking ass. I voted a long time ago but never posted (I do that a lot.) Just out of curiosity, I wonder how the people who voted for something other than Emacs or Vim would have voted if those were the only two choices? Because I use joe unless I'm using mc, so I use mcedit, unless I'm in X and then I pop up whichever one has whatever function I want (usually gedit) - but if I had to pick between the two, that'd be another vote for Vim.

-- Just noticed your sig, synaptical - off to edit my own. :D

I perfer VI but really does not matter to me, but I will say that when doing anything to config files I stay way from Pico cause it ads some special char that are not seen that can screw up a config file

It is best to use Pico/Nano with the -w (no word wrap) option when working with config files.
That is probably what was causing you problems, LoungeLizard.

i use emacs localy and remotly with ssh tunnelling yes emacs has a lot of add ons but these help you to do your work inside emacs without leaving the console or the window in x and you can customize every single thing to your taste thats wht makes emacs my editor of choice

emacs for coding, pico for everything else.

vim anyday...
simple , easy and customisable

I like Kate but I use vi when I'm confined to the console.

I use Emacs. You would not believe how many files I've screwed up trying to use vim to edit them. I especially like the way Emacs will automatically properly indent a line of text whenever you press tab.

I do have a couple of complaints about Emacs, though.

The keyboard code to exit os C-x C-c. These keys are so close together that I'm always accidentally exiting Emacs. Also, there is no redo, so if you undo too much, you are stuck retyping your code.

Either way, it's better than having to press 'I' whenever you want to type something.

From the emacs-help :*)
Cheers,
Tink