Favorite All Time Text Editor?

[manly]

GNU Emacs

 

[Captante]

Notepad++

Wordpad

 

[cronos]

For *nix, nano is an easy answer because it's always there and it's simple and straightforward. The only command I remember about Vi(m) is :q!. Every time I braved myself in firing it up, those three keys are what I ultimately punched after a few seconds looking around

For GUI stuff I like TextWrangler for OSX and Notepad++ for Windows.

 

[Childs]

For *nix, nano is an easy answer because it's always there and it's simple and straightforward. The only command I remember about Vi(m) is :q!. Every time I braved myself in firing it up, those three keys are what I ultimately punched after a few seconds looking around

For vi you only really need to know:

:w!
:wq!
:n

:%s/STR1/STR2/g
/STR
?STR
CTRL-F
CTRL-B
u
cw
0
$
:LINE
CTRL-G
.
yy
p
o
h,j,k,l

...actually, this list is starting to add up. hahaha It does end up being second nature though. I think it was the only editor available on the vax when I was in school.

 

[poofyhairguy]

...actually, this list is starting to add up.

I got a laugh out of that Childs. You reconfirmed why nano is my favorite editor lol. I have been using it for a decade and I only know like three or four key combos.