View Poll Results: Which Linux Text Editor Do You Use?

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  • pico/nano

    18 41.86%
  • emacs

    1 2.33%
  • vi

    15 34.88%
  • other

    9 20.93%
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Thread: Text Editor?

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    Text Editor?

    We're having a little discussion on WHT-IRC about which texteditor and why, please, enlighten me to which one you use, and why

    I personally use pico just because it's quick, lightweight and simple as hell (plus I can easily instruct my clients through it)
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    I use joe on my own servers
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    Ultraedit. Beautiful.

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    hahahaha . . . As of this post, emacs has zero votes.

    I was turned off by emacs ten years ago when I first tried to run it on a pentium 66 with 16MB of ram. At the time, that was a nice pc, but it ran emacs like crap. When I want to edit text, I want a text editor not an operating system.

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    Something called EditPad Pro.
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    when working locally on windows here, i use emeditor

    Any other time, i'm a vi guy.

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    Originally posted by ub3r
    when working locally on windows here, i use emeditor

    Any other time, i'm a vi guy.
    Same here.

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    Out of the list, I chose vi. However, I do quite like the editor built into Midnight Commander, which I do use from time to time. But mostly I use vi.

    As for when I'm in Windows, I use EditPlus. Fantastic editor - all you could ever want. It even makes coffee for you

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    I use Nano and Notepad
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    vi is where it's at.

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    Pico/Nano... I use VI occasionaly.

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    I've never really got on with large over-the-top text editors. I am more drawn to the quick loading, simplistic programs.

    I used to use Notepad all the time, but have recently upgraded to Win32Pad which is basically Notepad with extras.

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    vi - becuase it was the first one I used and stuck to it.

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    vi > *

    seriously, if you're using something like pico or nano now, just read a bit of the documentation and use vi, you won't ever go back. pico/nano just suck in comparison.

    i know this is a bit off topic, but under a windows environment, i also like EditPlus.

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    I use pico all the time. However, I would just downright refuse nano. If I had to choose between nano and vi, it's vi I go.

    I choose pico mainly for the ease. However, if I don't get pico, it's vi I go. However, often, I would use vi only if it's not the real thing, but vim, which the --INSERT-- stuff.

    As for Windows... umm... I don't use Windows. I'm a full-fledged Linux user.

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    what about those WM specific editors ?

    ie: gedit

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    vi, vim, nvi... =]

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    I use pico usually, however if I have to debug an error code and have to find a specific line, I use "ee".

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    Depends on where I am :

    Linux Console : vim
    Linux GUI/X : cream
    OSX : Subethaedit
    Windows : EditPlus

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    Pico and NotePad
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    Re: Text Editor?

    Originally posted by AnnihiLizard
    We're having a little discussion on WHT-IRC about which texteditor and why, please, enlighten me to which one you use, and why

    I personally use pico just because it's quick, lightweight and simple as hell (plus I can easily instruct my clients through it)
    vi

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    gedit on Linux (Novell)

    Notetab Light on Windows XP.

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    For Windows on my Personal Computers - WordTabs
    For Linux on Servers - vi

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    joe is quick , nice and easy. It cannot make coffee which some other editors are trying to do, but it does everything editor should be able to do. For larger PHP projects I use Quanta, but that is much more then text editor.

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