What is your favorite editor?

[KFG14]

What's your favorite editor? I'm in a Red Hat class and think VIM is a nightmare.

Thanks

Kevin

[Nailz]

Console based? Hmm. I've been kind of partial to Pico. Pretty simple.
GUI? Gedit or Kedit. Doesn't get any easier.

Now if you're looking for pure power? You have to go with emacs (or xemacs for GUI)...but beware... there's a learning curve.

[brast]

I don't mind VI myself. nano is a good one. And then i use Kate from my GUIs.

[roamingnomad]

(off-topic)

Why did this thread show up twice on the front page?

[Gaxus]

My favorite editor is... (G)VIM :D... it's really not that hard to learn... emacs... yeah... now that's scary :eek:

[sharth]

vim, and probably because it was moved.

[Ryochan7]

Command-Line Based: Nano
GUI: GEdit

[bae127]

Vim - I am writing an entire 200 page thesis using vim and pdflatex. Great (and powerful) tools!

[Gertrude]

Joe.

[psi42]

Mcedit.

Vim is OK, but I am just too stupid to figure it out:D. Sometimes I have to press the "i" key about five times to get it to work, and sometimes backspace and delete don't do anything. Of course, this is most likely due to something I am doing wrong:).

~psi42

[Chadduss]

I tend to like nano after being forced to use it during the gentoo install but VI is my editor

[o0zi]

I like nano and joe for some quick and dirty sysadmin tasks. For anything more complex, I use Abiword or Openoffice.org.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by sharth
vim, and probably because it was moved.

Yes it was as I figured.

1. There are already enough "What is your favorite text editor" threads in the Software forum.

and most importantly

2. It would seem the greater majority of JL members hang out in the /dev/random forum and that would give the most amount of "What is your favorite text editor" replies.

:)

At your service. :D

[Artie_Effim]

notepad

[Artimus]

Console: Nano (Pico if need be)
X: Nano in an aterm (Pio if need be)

^_^

For any writting, I prefer Abiword, but I'm starting to like Open Office more and more.

[gearjunkie]

coming from windoze, I use EditPlus a lot when I'm there, but I'm still looking for a good replacement for it for linux.

I use it for mostly php and html, since there aren't too many uses for a config file editor in WinXP.

Here's the things I like about it, and what I would love to see in an editor in linux:

1) Easy to use-It has a nice file tree view on the left hand side so you can open files easily, and it recognizes all the keyboard shortcuts like highlighting and hitting delete to delete paragraphs, and hitting 'end' and 'home' for the beginning and ends of lines.

2) Good syntax highlighting-It has templates for html, php, asp, java, perl, and most other things I've tried to find in it, and all you do it select it from a drop-down menu, or let it recognize the extension of the file.

3) Keeps tabs, and recognizes '}' means move a tab back.

Now there are probably editors out there that do this, but I haven't found one I like yet. Emacs is tough to learn, and all the different 'buffers' and keyboard shortcuts are confusing, and VI is just as bad, if not worse. As far as pico, Joe, and others that I've tried, the syntax highlighting is horrendous.

Enlighten me!
-Nathan

[serz]

I like mcedit and nano but I usually use mcedit.

[jailbreaker]

I like nano(CLI) and kate(GUI)