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by **al_tyranny** on Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:38 am

Which is your favorite text editor?

+1 vote for vim :)

http://www.io.com/~dierdorf/emacsvi.html

by **cons00m** on Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:43 am

vim fo' lyfe I value my .vimrc very much Wink

.

http://www.vim.org/download.php <- Windows ports too! Very Happy

But pico/nano arent bad in a pinch.

Id rather use ed over emacs though.

~c

by **zogo** on Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:11 am

I voted for Pico. It serves the purpose.

by **Bugs42** on Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:28 am

Pico forever! It's just so much easier and more intuitive than vi and emacs.

by **thanjee** on Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:35 am

I went with emacs because I do all my programming on emacs. For all my basic editing however I use ee (although i believe ee stands for easy emacs - so it si still emacs I guess). I used to be a big joe fan - right about the time I was meant to be learning vi at uni......so I never learnt the millions of wonderful shortcuts...... Sad

If I am on a system without ee and I need to edit some simple conf file, or whatever I usually loook for nano first because it seems to be more prevelant.

by **Franko** on Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:56 pm

Pico, it was the first *nix editor I ever used, and I found it to be very simple. I also like ee, but it is my second choice.

by **ravenhair** on Fri Mar 24, 2006 6:40 pm

Bigger image - more readable:
http://ravenhair.phoenix-hosting.org/clippy-vi.gif

by **thebeast** on Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:54 pm

For pico it's better to control like for me *nix noobie ^_^

by **slordex** on Sun Mar 26, 2006 10:04 pm

I like using vi just because it is default text editor in many linux system....
So Vi forever ...

:wq

by **TheWorldJoker** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:42 am

Eh, I started out with vi, so I continue with vi Smile

by **ngunder** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:13 am

I would have voted for emacs if it was the Xemacs version, I am not a big fan of just plain emacs. I need to know vi for work, so I do not mind it too much. I hear you can get spell checking for vi, but I think that is just taking something quick and dirty and trying to polish it up. Vi is for the small quick edit and Xemacs is for the long dirty code job.

by **bluebell** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:45 am

Frankly pico was never a standalone editor. It came with the mail access program Pine. The new counterpart of Pico is Nano which has certain enhancements over Pico and is also a standalone text editor.

by **reikor0x** on Wed Mar 29, 2006 10:05 am

I think that pico is useful text editor for shell enviroment

Pico +1

by **fayola** on Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:59 am

Emacs can be a saviour because you can programng, document, web surf in one place.

But I have come accustomed to vi since the shell I was using before didn't have emacs.

by **selket** on Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:23 pm

what? no Notepad?

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