Geek poll: what's your text editor

[Recursion]

Just curious if progressives have a leaning in text editors.

[Xipe Totec]

1. TeXnicCenter

I use LaTeX.

[benburch]

2. vi on Unix...

BBEdit on the Mac.

[zulchzulu]

3. Other

BBEdit ot TextEdit...

[Book Lover]

4. I go the other way entirely

I do all writing in InDesign. It's always open on my machine anyway.

[trotsky]

5. :wq!

:)

[LiberalPartisan]

6. It depends on the job

but I find I use TextPad the most.

[Q3JR4]

7. I use vi,

but I also do a lot of work with latex. Since I use VI to edit the latex code, that probably counts for vi too.

[Clovis Sangrail]

8. it really depends

for quick edits in *nix, vi hands down

for more than quick edits..
kwrite if I've got KDE
Programmer's Notepad if I'm on a windows box

[mike_c]

9. I answered nano, but I use vi, emacs, kate, pico, and nano...

...on *nix systems, and EditPlus2 more often than not on WinXP. I answered nano because you had a clear bias toward *nix, and I use nano for most small system chores. I suppose I probably use pico the most-- isn't it the default editor in the pine mail system? I use emacs and kate for coding, mostly, and vi occasionally just out of habit.

[init6]

10. ...

I figure vi would be too difficult for the DU type.

[mike_c]

12. yeah well, anyone who's been around since back in the day...

...probably cut their teeth on vi. Lots of folks in my generation still use it just because they know all the edit mode codes, LOL! Of course, I know a guy who still maps his key codes to WordStar commands (hmmm, now that I think about it, he's probably a DUer too :hi:).

Welcome to DU!

[Gman]

11. Microsoft Word!

Ha! Made you look.

I use Notepad and don't care you don't think I have an OS.

[Solo_in_MD]

13. WYSIWYG editors have no honor

today is a good day to vi!

[YankeyMCC]

14. Textpad on Windows - VI on *IX n/t

[Davis_X_Machina]

15. TextWrangler on the Mac...

...and pico on those rare occasions I run an editor in a terminal box.

Emacs isn't an editor -- it's a lifestyle choice.

[bemildred]

16. I used 5 or 6 depending on the task and environment.

Including vi, xemacs, word, notepad, nedit, and one I wrote myself for fast C coding. In the old days there was teco and the DEC editor.

[Tesha]

17. vi, bbedit, VxWorks IDE, Visual Studio IDE, Wordpad, EDT.

Current preference:

- vi(m)
- bbedit

Occasionally use:

- VxWorks IDE editor
- Visual Studio IDE editor
- Wordpad

In the past, extensively used:

- EDT
- KED
- Teco


Am forced to do a lot of work in Word.
Will (X)emacs for money, but not for love.

Tesha

[Lithos]

18. emacs

eclipse, textpad, vi on boxes that don't have emacs.

L-

[TechBear_Seattle]

19. Scribble, a custom app I wrote myself (so Other it is)

I wrote my own editor, Scribble, about 12 years ago. It was one of my first forays in to C++ Windows programming. I wanted something that had features from the old MS edlin applet, so it's first incarnation was specifically for writing assembly and C code.

I've tinkered with it, reworked it, added features, generalized it and recently rewrote it start to finish using Visual Studio .NET 2005, in VB.net this time, because I've been doing a lot of VB programming since 1998.

[skids]

20. Here's a typical vi session for me:

(sound of cursing)
:q

# apt-get install emacs21-nox jove
# dpkg --remove elvis vi

(It's not so much that I don't like vi -- I do dislike it, but it's just that I do like to spot all the applications that call vi directly instead of using the properly configured system editor, so I like to run without any valid "vi" binary or alias.)

[mainegreen]

21. kate, vim, notepad, depending on where I am at the time. nt