What's your favorite text editor

[WhiskeyBravo]

I've been trying to learn java for the past two weeks now and I have been switching back and forth between Ultra Edit 32 and SynEdit on Windows. So far I haven't been able to decide which I like better, but I'm leaning towards Synedit because I was able to get the compiler function to work.

Advanced Edit on KDE seems kind of slick but I'm having a hard time deciphering certain characters. All of the semi-colons look like commas!

What are you guys using?


Doug

[ 11 June 2001: Message edited by: WhiskeyBravo ]

[Strike]

vim (http://www.vim.org), in every OS

[Stuka]

What problems were you having with UltraEdit? I got it set up to compile Java apps pretty easy (and I love it for editing in Windows).

[YaRness]

Originally posted by Strike:
<STRONG>vim (http://www.vim.org), in every OS</STRONG>
ditto

[flynnwallace]

Advanced Edit and Pico. I have used linux for 5 years and I still just want simple. I need to learn vi/vim but I just dont like it for some reason. Sorry but thats just me. I'm gonna get flamed to hell.

Flynn :(

[TheLinuxDuck]

Pico is awesome for basic text editing stuff, because it's simple, straightforward, and easy to understand.

Vim is more complex. It certainly takes some getting used to.. however, I use it exclusively now... on win and linux. It's just so flexible and stuff.. One of the things I like the most about it is that I can turn all tabs into spaces. Man, I hate tabs! (^=

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Since you're learning Java why not use Jext from www.jext.org (http://www.jext.org) ? It's a text editor that's written entirely in Java so it works cross platform just like java.

I use it every day at work all day long.

[EyesWideOpen]

I use vim in Linux (I don't code in Windows). Like TLD said it definitely take some getting used to -- especially navigating the cursor position with the keyboard. When I *first* saw someone using vi I thought it was so stupid to have to use letters on the keyboard to move the cursor around but once you get the hang of it you can really shave a lot of time off of your coding sessions by not having to use the mouse. Not to mention vi's countless other features/shortcuts.

[kmj]

I use vim in linux, windows, and anywhere else I can find it.

[RTFM]

I just use vim, I'm too lazy to bother with installing Emacs.. :o

[Bradmont2]

Emacs is just plain scary. vim all the way.

[WhiskeyBravo]

My problem with ultra edit is that I can't seem to get it to return any compiler results. I've planted some errors in a program and run the command:
javac "%P"%n%e (along with some other variations) but it just returns a blank resutls page.

In Linux, so far I've liked using Advanced Editor for when I'm writing a program. I really like the highlighted keywords and being able to use the mouse to position my cursor. I do use vim for basic text editing when I'm tooling around in a terminal.

[jemfinch]

I use emacs because it's the hands-down the best editor for Python (and I imagine O'Caml, which is my newest language-of-the-moment.)

I don't think it's mere coincidence that nearly the entirety of both the Python and O'Caml "illuminati" use emacs exclusively.

In all honesty, vim is a better editor. I enjoy typing stuff more in vim. However, actually typing is only a small part of what I do when programming. Aside from the (minor) advantage vim has in that field, emacs does nearly everything else better. Of course, that's by design, since vim isn't really intended to do nearly as much as emacs.

From what I've seen, the more obscure the language, the bigger the difference between emacs' and vim's capabilities in working with that language.

This is, of course, just opinion.

Jeremy

[Stuka]

WB-
Do you have the "Capture Results" (or soemthing like that) box checked in the menu for the item? I had the same problem once, and that little check box solved it....

[Ethan]

I'm really happy with emacs. It's not that hard to use, and it takes less getting used to weirdness than vim.

- Ethan

[YaRness]

the couple times i opened it, emacs looked really cool and powerful and intimidating, but i couldn't find the text editor.

:cool: Vim :cool:

[MrNewbie]

Vim. Everywhere. I don't like Emacs (Or XEmacs) I mean why does an editor needs games and stuff? Maybe that was just XEmacs but still, they're unnecessary.

[Craig McPherson]

Vim is fine. I prefer elVIs over vim, though. They're very similar, but the colour schemes are slightly different. elVIs has more syntax highlighting options, and it can function as a hex editor, html renderer, etc.

[kmj]

Hex editing is nice

[MSD]

vim or pico in Linux, don't really need to use a text editor in windows except for maybe HTML, and I generally use notepad for that.

_Moss

[Strike]

Originally posted by Craig McPherson:
<STRONG>Vim is fine. I prefer elVIs over vim, though. They're very similar, but the colour schemes are slightly different. elVIs has more syntax highlighting options, and it can function as a hex editor, html renderer, etc.</STRONG>
Hex editor in vim -
1. Open file to be edited
2. :%!xxd

HTML rendering with gvim -
1. Open file to be edited
2. :2html

Pretty simple, no?

[ 13 June 2001: Message edited by: Strike ]

[alfredo]

In Linux emacs and Nedit.

In OSX BBedit and emacs.

I love BBedit.

[kmj]

Strike, you are a god amongst men. All this time, I thought you couldn't hex edit in vim. I was a fool.

[Strike]

Originally posted by kmj:
<STRONG>Strike, you are a god amongst men. All this time, I thought you couldn't hex edit in vim. I was a fool.</STRONG>
Tsk, tsk, kmj. You should know better than to underestimate vim like that. I didn't know about it either (hadn't had the need for it), but I just did :h hex-edit and sure enough, it was there :)

[kmj]

I actually had a need for it last summer, and I didn't think to look around. What a fool I've been.