blackcow

textpad, pico, vi

xanthar

definitely emacs

spectre

NoteTab Light

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Rinndalir

What no one's said edlin yet???

WordPerfect, bah...anyone remember WordStar? That program was HARDCORE

a1t3r3g0

I don't do much "text editing" but when I type up my school papers I always use Word.

For webediting (which I don't really do much of anymore) I'll use notepad/frontpage/CuteHTML.

Grondar

I also prefer EditPad Lite.

It has all I need for basic text editing.

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BubblegumTeflon

Yay BBedit. Also emacs for messing with Darwin.

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spankthru

for linux, vim all the way baby! for windows, i suggest a program for all of you HTML coders out there called <a href="http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html">EditPad Lite</a>

Dave

I can use ed (*the* unix editor), I had to use it at one point in time to edit /etc/fstab in a case where someone had moved the hard drives around on a freebsd box. I guess that if noone has suggested ed then noone is going to suggest teco :P

Shinryu

Notepad is all I use.

Crimson

vi or vim - whatever is going depending upon the system

I tend to use (abuse?) vim like vi - though the highlighting is nice when set up right

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Blah, just notepad for me.

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saberyo

I wondered when someone would bring up good 'ole ed. :-) ed gives me nightmares because of the situations I've had to use it in ... much like what you described earlier.

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philzilla

mac: BBEdit, or pico
pc: synedit, or notepad

XHydralisk

I don't know why nobody likes wordperfect. It works great.

SiN

UltraEdit

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<u>crimson editor</u> for making webpages
<u>metapad</u> for everyday use

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Apody

Edit Plus

it has bulit in santax highlighting for coding

methodtim

Notepad in Wintel
PICO or Vi if I have to POSIX

I'm sorry, I don't have the mental wherewithall to actually prefer vi - that shit makes no sense after working in and with Windows 85% of the time.

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tek55

gvim rocks for windows at least, never used linux actually so i dunno there, and primal script is really nice too for scripting etc.

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Antagony

1.) VIM
b.) EditPad Pro

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kenshee

Mostly EditPlus but I'm trying out TextPad. Textpad seems to have a better UI.

Albert

IMHO Vim and Gvim are hands down the best (most powerful, flexible, slimmest) editors for almost all platforms, win32 included.

I would not go back to anything else on Windows, and I've tried UltraEdit, ED for Windows, PE, and all the variants of notepad. Not to mention the various IDEs I'm forced to use for work.

But I would not advise a casual user to try and learn Vim if they had no previous Vi or unix experience. They wouldn't get value for the effort required to learn the commands etc.

And in case no one else mentions it, Vim is Charityware; if you like it you are encouraged to donate to help needy children in Uganda. Very nice.

http://vim.sourceforge.net

piranha6

Ultraedit for text is my favorite

taog

if i'm doing some php shit, i use AceHTML 5 Pro

just plain olde html, i use notepad

when i want to know something that i don' tknow in html, i use adobe golive

when i want to create css files to add to pages, i use adobe golive

I mostly use AceHTML 5 Pro, since i mostly code php scripts.

oblar

Linux : pico (or nano, depending on the box)
Windows: Notepad or MS Edit depending on if im at the prompt or not

Although I am trying to learn vim because it is a handy little thing with the highlighting and such.. Emacs is too much of a bear to use in console, in my opinion.

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txd

I use the exact same set up. I havnt used gvim in a while, but last I tried I wasnt to impressed

Albert

Can you say why?

I use GVim and I am very impressed.

termnl

vim....most of the editiing I hafta do is on a shell.

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Ok I take it back, I've just installed gvim6.1 for windows and its a big improvement. When I first used it, it was with a very early version which I didnt feel was very polished. I also think it might have been partially due to my attitude of "why does vim need a gui"

wg2000

vim

wg2000

Dave: Lol, ed! I use ed a lot in shell scripts that need to make complex modifications to files.

Looking through this thread I guess the results of an emacs-vs-vim flamewar are pretty much a given. Hmmm, poll idea...

w00tn00b

I have seen wars begin over such a topic. But anyway, I use jed for Linux and emacs for windows. Its not that I have anything against vi, emacs is just easier for me to use.