sailor

OK, I havent seen any of the classic vi vs. emacs arguments here, and I know that there are a lot of Linux users around here, so here it goes: what Linux/Unix editor do YOU use?

Personally, I skip both of the big two, choosing instead to go for Nano. I find it more intuitive and easier to use. It certainly isnt as powerful as the two big names, but I dont usually use features like that. Given the choice between vi and emacs though, I choose vi. I am marginally proficient in it, just enough to function if I am thrown onto a machine without Nano.

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glytch

Still learning Linux, so I'm sticking with vi for now. Hopefully I'll find something a little better soon.

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oberon

I use vim.

My philosophy is: Pick one and learn the hell out of it. If your choice is not vi or emacs, learn the basics of one of those, since they'll be on everything.

I do not care what other people use, as long as they're proficient with it.

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twister002

Most of my boxes are Gentoo. They have Vi and ViM installed on them but Nano gets used most of the time.

Jolt

vi vi vi vi vi vi

When stuck with vim, I install vi.

I respect people who choose emacs outside X11.

pico is so bad, it could have been written by microsoft.

ZZ

ibis

I use vi.

Damit, I swore I wasn't gonna let my nerd side come out here...

SecretMethod70

I use nano. First used it the first time I installed Gentoo and have been using it since. I don't need the more advanced abilities of vi.

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irseg

vi. It's simple and efficient. emacs is utterly ridiculous, WAY too much crap to do simple commands.

oblar

out of the big two, I much prefer vim. I am trying to learn the hell out of it, but still fairly new.

to do quick text edits, I generally lean towards pico or nano (whichever is available), since they are quick, and I don't have to worry about messing things up as easily. (also first used pico around '96 or '95 so it is more of a comfort editor*grin*)

although any major script or programming work I go vim.

stinks too, since my uni teaches EVERYONE to use emacs.. They teach the class by it and dont have vim installed on most of the machines.

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Latch

vim for text based

gedit for graphical quick-edits (through nautilus).

tropple

Pico.

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bacon_masta

vi. emacs has way too much bs to bulldog my way through just to accomplish something simple.

kel

VIM + Jalopy = Goodness

I couldn't indent or format my code consistently if my life depended on it.

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ssh_agent

vi !

ratbastid

vi if I'm on a remote shell. nedit if I'm on X.

nedit rules, by the way. Very powerful little editor.

dahdah

Vi, but usually Pico.

Sty

vi/vim. Emacs users are nutcases.

Oh, and i JUST HAVE to mention that I use FreeBSD :P

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amokk

nano for me

cthulu23

Vim for 95% of my work, occasionally Kate connected to a remote server using the fish KIO slave (mostly for HTML editing).

Although I don't go for the macho "non-intuitive" editing posture, using Nano and Pico will cause some folks to categorize the user as a n00b. Too notepad-ish, I guess.

asittler

Emacs, because I don't use all the modes of vi/m and hitting ctrl-x-ctrl-c is a lot more intuitive than hitting ":wq" or ":q!" to quit.

I'd rather hit "ctrl-x-ctrl-s-ctrl-x-ctrl-c" to quit than :wq because I don't have to use the shift key to quit emacs. And Cperl is unbeatable.

sailor

Haha, like we couldnt tell from the avatar...

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Rawb

Emacs is what I use for all of my programming. It just has a lot of little things thown in that make it nice to keep up all the time, never starting a new emacs, just opening up new "buffers" in it. Secondly, the macro system allows me to do amazing repetitive things really, really easily.

I still use vi for quick edits in the shell, when I don't want to switch between xterm an emacs (I use eshell every once in a while, but mostly a normal shell in an xterm/konsole). But anytme I'm in a file for more than 30 seconds or more, emacs really starts being handy.

syquestrd270

pico

Jadedfox

Emacs. Nuff said.

--jaded

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Mephex

nano, pico without the pine fresh scent

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Jean-Luc Godard

Emacs can do so much more than vi with much less hassle, but when I'm in a rush I'll just use gedit through nautilus.

Nafter

vi, what i learnt first heh

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ca_xtreme

i learned pico first but perfer vi ..... all i had to use on a hp-ux machine..but i hate typing so i will usually use like kwrite or what have ya in the gui.

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kaze01

vi or vim if it's available. I use it a *lot*, so i'm pretty good with it. never used emacs.

nothingx

It really depends on what I'm editing. For hacking out code I like to use something graphical like xemacs or nedit because they give you nice syntax highlighting and have macros for doing things like commenting out blocks of code... but when I just need to make a simple edit to a config file or something like that, vi works perfectly. As always, there's a right tool for the right job.

Fearless_Hyena

I laughed when I read that, I never bothered to learn Emacs either. I only ever use vi anymore but still I'm far from proficient in it. I would always use pico to write text files, but I hardly ever do that outside of a gui anymore.

If you don't know vi then check out this oldschool post on Hack vi, it's funny but actually instructive. Sometimes vi is your only choice so it could come in handy. I think it's where I first learned vi from....

Tandem

vi.

IMHO, The first and really only editor you should be bothered learning.
Regardless of where you go, vi will always be there and ready for you to use.

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noctypair

Nano/Vi depending on what I am working on at the time

Rekna

vi/vim you have to learn the interface anyways since most other programs share the same interface (like man). Besides it is really efficient once you get used to it.

sargorn

vim/vi. gvim/vim/vi if in a gui, depending on task.

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zero2

Only use vi.