Favorite text editor?

[GigaCluster]

VIM.

And for my friends who have a shell account on the server I recommend GNU nano.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

vi

In Windows I use notepad or ultraedit though.

 

[BurnItDwn]

favorite vi
2nd pico
3rd notepad

 

[Snapster]

Notepad for simple stuff, or visual studio if editing source like php etc.

 

[Ynog]

Xemacs and VI, xemacs to write big pieces of code, vi to modify small pieces of code and to view it.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: MeanMeosh
i like notepad...

 

[MrYogi]

Originally posted by: MeanMeosh
i like notepad...

it is the best.

 

[nicowju]

textpad/notepad/vi(m)!

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: mugsywwiii
Wow... do you people who use notepad not do a lot of text editing? I mean, I use notepad to write myself a reminder or something, but I could never code or anything like that in notepad...

Emacs?! ViM I can handle... 🙂

Notepad pwnz j00! 😉

I've written entire web pages in Notepad. It's not that bad, although it would be nice to have some color coding of your HTML (a la Visual Interdev).

 

[dolph]

without downloading every text editor listed here, can someone fill me in on what the differences are between the programs?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: dolph
without downloading every text editor listed here, can someone fill me in on what the differences are between the programs?

Professional text editors do things like line numbering, syntax highlighting, bracket matching, auto indenting, find and replace w/ regualr expressions, etc.

Notepad does none of the above, but somehow it got some "l33t" reputation for writing HTML, so a bunch of people who really are clueless and have never used a quality text editor think that they're cooler because they use notepad.

 

[MikeMike]

i use dreamweaver 😀 and yes, a lot of my coding is by hand, although i might ty that phped stuff

mike

 

[n0cmonkey]

No one can top vi, although vigor comes close.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Feldenak
Windows based? I like ultraedit

 

[GigaCluster]

Originally posted by: dolph
without downloading every text editor listed here, can someone fill me in on what the differences are between the programs?

Notepad is the simplest, most barebones text editor there is... for some twisted reason, Notepad is the best editor for some people.
All other text editors except Vi/Vim offer multiple document windows, syntax highlighting, special editing shortcuts, etc.
Vi/Vim is in its own category because text input is just one (and not even the default) aspect of it -- it's more like a text manipulator.

Just for those that don't know, both Emacs and Vim are available for DOS and Windows.