Hi Everyone,
I just wondered what most of you guys use out there when it comes to text editing. I havent used either too much, but I really would like to know which one is most popular or which one is the most user friendly.
Many thanks.
henkasdf
Are you trying to start an argument on the forum? 
I suppose you will ask next: KDE or GNOME, Linux or BSD, Perl or Python? These are very religious questions.
Use whatever you like.
Emacs for writing info pages, joe for everything else. But that’s just me. There are hundreds of editors around and - as ken_yap rightly says - it is a matter of personal preference.
I could never remember the Emacs key commands, so I started using vi and have been for many years. Perl over python, Linux over BSD, and chocolate over vanilla.
To each his/her own.
vodoo wrote:
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> Emacs for writing info pages, joe for everything else. But that’s
> just me. There are hundreds of editors around and - as ken_yap rightly
> says - it is a matter of personal preference.
>
>
Yes it is completely a matter of taste. Of course one can start to argue
about the pro and cons of the editors. But at the end the most important
thing is that the person who uses it feels comfortable with it and is not
restricted by the editor.
@henkasdf
You can of course ask who uses what and the result will be a flame war or an
overview in form of “editor top ten”. But what is the benefit?
To find out what fits your needs try some of them.
There are also editors with gui like gedit and kate.
The choice is also influenced by the use case:
Is it for programming? Is where a good support for my programming language?
Is it for editing configuration data?
Or whatever else?
To answer also the original question what I use:
emacs for most programming except java (for java I use no editor but the
eclipse ide)
edit config files -> vi
sometimes kate
all those other posts are wrong!
individual choice is inherently evil.
there is only ONE editor to use.
everyone in Redmond knows the correct answer: NotePad.
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palladium
i use mc, kate, emacs, kwrite, gedit, etc…
vi/vim drives me CRAZY!
though i no longer have to reboot to make it STOP!
well, sometimes i do…
palladium wrote:
> all those other posts are wrong!
> individual choice is inherently evil.
> there is only ONE editor to use.
> everyone in Redmond knows the correct answer: NotePad.
>
And the best is you can run in on linux with wine.
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:36 +0000, henkasdf wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I just wondered what most of you guys use out there when it comes to
> text editing. I havent used either too much, but I really would like to
> know which one is most popular or which one is the most user friendly.
As a sysadmin, I use vim and even so, more likely the vi feature set
just because vi is there on all *ix platforms.
I do get spoiled a bit by vim since it does do more than vi… mostly
noticeable when dealing with files with incredibly long lines, etc.
Not sure if I’d call emacs or vi very friendly. You can certainly
do more with emacs and a lot of my friends prefer Xemacs (the evil
people that stole RMS’s code without his permission… RMS is the
founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and the GPL).
So… which is more popular… definitely vim. More friendly? I
think that’s a toss up (personal opinion).
Martin Helm wrote:
> And the best is you can run in on linux with wine.
OH man…now i have a great reason to install wine!!
oh wait, is NotePad open source yet? or would i have to buy a license
for just that?
OH! i have a legal Win3.1…will a 16 bit windows executable run in wine??
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palladium
OH! i have a legal Win3.1
Me too!!! But I have no serviceable hardware to run it. Too bad 
vodoo wrote:
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>> OH! i have a legal Win3.1
>
> Me too!!! But I have no serviceable hardware to run it. Too bad :’(
>
>
You can use qemu if you can turn your floppies into floppy images somewhere.
How do you reboot yourself to make yourself stop going CRAZY? lol!
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png
I use nano for most tasks and vim for very long files. I never even tried Emacs, for what I read about it sounds like it is a bit too cluttered for me. Also since I am very satisfied with vim, I don’t feel the need to learn the usage of Emacs.