Hey, unix/windows/mac guru's, what's your favorite editor?

[Chaotic42]

How silly of me!

I forgot that real men use ed!

Yes, I know it's old, but it's still funny!

 

[Sunner]

vim

Heh, good stuff Chaotic

 

[MainFramed]

me a n00b. wtf is VI

 

[AT]

Windows: Ultraedit
*nix: jed

 

[BFG10K]

For source code/programming: Microsoft Visual C++.
For raw text: Notepad.
For professional documents: Microsoft Word 2002.

 

[glugglug]

In unix I like wpe (text) or xwpe (x-windows) both of which feature syntax highlighting and all the same keyboard shortcuts as the old Borland C++ 3.1 editor.

For windows the best is UltraEdit.

It's been too long since I did any serious work on a mac, but BBEdit was good back in the day.

 

[Nothinman]

vi. I don't use unix as a desktop OS, so I have little need for X. vi suits my CLI needs just fine.

vim has GUI modes using GTK, it's actually quite nice. I've installed it on all the Win32 boxes I have to use since if I use notepad I end up putting :wq all through it by accident :/

me a n00b. wtf is VI

The only text editor standard on every unix. It's a bitch to learn, but is badass once you get to know it.

 

[daMachine]

Unix: NEdit (for big stuff), vi for the rest
Mac OSX: BBEdit, vi
Windows: Testpad

 

[n0cmonkey]

OpenBSD, Solaris, Mac: vi
Linux: vim
Windows: notepad or wordpad depending on what I am doing.

 

[Sunner]

The only text editor standard on every unix. It's a bitch to learn, but is badass once you get to know it.

Don't forget "ed"

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I've installed it on all the Win32 boxes I have to use since if I use notepad I end up putting :wq all through it by accident :/

Hehe, I know the feeling. Sometimes I'll go through a crazy busy day at work where I'm using vi for the vast majority of the time, then I get home and start surfing, come here to post and when typing in the message box I'll mess up and hit Esc and god knows whatever other vi keys until I realize a few seconds later that i'm just typing hhhhhhh or jjjj or whatever

 

[Haden]

Notepad,
nano/mcedit/vi/KWrite (in this order)
and I agree vi is a b!tch ... to learn

 

[Armitage]

Nedit
Code Crusader

I guess I'm not a real geek, cuz I hate vi and emacs. Although vi is nice when you're working over a slow remote connection.

 

[Silent1]

i used to use emacs for awhile but jedit and eclipse has had me for awhile; i'd also like to take a look at kdevelop 3 when they release a stable build.

 

[Ynog]

On *nix machines I use
Emacs to write files.
vi to edit files.

 

[Mucman]

Windows : Textpad
Unix : vi (console), nedit (X)

 

[glugglug]

BTW as extremely counterintuitive as it is for such a simplistic editor as notepad to be "heavy", UltraEdit uses 2 orders of magnitude less CPU than notepad for the same editing operations. More so on large files where notepad starts swapping like crazy.

 

[Spyro]

VIM FOREVER!!!!!!!

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: glugglug
BTW as extremely counterintuitive as it is for such a simplistic editor as notepad to be "heavy", UltraEdit uses 2 orders of magnitude less CPU than notepad for the same editing operations. More so on large files where notepad starts swapping like crazy.

Yeah I never understood why notepad (and wordpad I think) performed so badly. What's the notepad limit, 50K? That's ridiculous. I just opened a 380000 line, 76MB file in vim, took about 40 seconds, but once it loads it's perfectly useable.

 

[glugglug]

The 32K limit is gone in NT/2K/XP. But its still slower than other editors.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: glugglug
The 32K limit is gone in NT/2K/XP. But its still slower than other editors.

Ah, I was going to say, I *thought* I remembered opening some big files in notepad on nt4 at my old job. Was a telemarketing job, I got so bored I resorted to getting around their disappearing-desktop-no-right-click restrictions and sometimes I would open up notepad and just start copying and pasting text over and over to watch notepad slowly grind to a halt. I don't miss that job..