Text Editor of the Year

stormchaser3000 · 01-06-2020, 06:57 PM

I am probably going to be the odd one out, but that's alright. I voted for Emacs

Lucio Chiappetti · 01-07-2020, 03:53 AM

Now and ever THE, The Hessling Editor, can't live without

hazel · 01-07-2020, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by v32itas

nano

I've noticed that a lot of distros use nano as their system editor. Obviously it's considered easy to pick up.

haphaeu · 01-07-2020, 07:10 AM

notepad?

kidding, went for emacs =)

YesItsMe · 01-07-2020, 07:12 AM

Notepad would be fine for some things, but on Linux, Leafpad is probably the closest alternative.

j8a · 01-07-2020, 09:01 AM

I also used Vim for a long time, almost eleven years and still do use it because it simply suits my programming languages needs.

hazel · 01-07-2020, 09:18 AM

For programming I prefer geany.

Pasquale Frega · 01-08-2020, 05:26 AM

Hi, my name is Pasquale Frega and i have developed this text editor:

http://pasqualefrega.antiblog.com/led.htm

i will be happy to share with the community.

slac-in-the-box · 01-10-2020, 12:28 PM

Emacs -- 35 years of community contributed macros make Emacs way more than a text editor: more like a lightsaber...

Mike_Walsh · 01-15-2020, 08:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac

Obviously it is vi, as it is on every distro.....

.....Mm. If you like being a masochist! Ah, each to their own, I guess.

Personally, Geany does it for me.

Mike.

frankbell · 01-15-2020, 08:29 PM

I nearly voted for vim, because I do quite like it and invested a bit of effort into become competent (not expert, but competent) with it, but decided I should vote for the one I use most often day to day, which is Kate.

joshg253 · 01-17-2020, 07:56 AM

Visual Studio Code

Tux! · 01-17-2020, 08:27 AM

elvis. I tried nearly every editor on that list and nothing matched the easy of use as elvis.
Oké, elvis lacks decent UTF-8 support and active maint, but it is *still* better fitting my needs than vim/gvim.

hazel · 01-17-2020, 08:36 AM

I find elvis really difficult because it's almost vim but not quite. I keep stumbling over the differences. I suppose one day I should sit down and RTFM.

redcat15 · 01-18-2020, 10:49 AM