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View Poll Results: What is your preferred text editor?
vi or vi clone such as vim 913 73.39%
emacs 68 5.47%
notepad 67 5.39%
EditPlus 60 4.82%
UltraEdit 58 4.66%
pico 24 1.93%
nano 28 2.25%
mcedit 8 0.64%
nedit 18 1.45%
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Old 03-01-2006
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I use nedit most of the time, it's a little easier to use than vi (not as many "hot keys" to memorize), but can at times not be quite as robust, especially when dealling with large files. I guess that it really depends on what one is using it for, and one's preference, but both are good.
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I like vedit for Unix stuff (www.vedit.com) but the best editor of all other stuff is Kedit version 1.5 (www.kedit.com). It hasn't been updated since Jan 1998 but it is the most powerful editor around. It is a full screen editor with a command line. With the sample macros that you can download for free, you can virtually do anything with a file.
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vi & notepad :P
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I'm a vi/vim fan
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pretty good EDITOR- WINSCP

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WINSCP is a damn gud editor

it's u ser friendly

just check it out
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I just use vi or vim..
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Originally Posted by tej.buch
hi...people seem to be gung ho about vi...what is so special about it? kindly inform me about its features that make it so special...
Well, if you're the kind of user that finds himself doing the same edit to 99 lines and wondering if he should write a perl script to do this for you, vi may be the editor for you... Instead of the limited search/search-replace functionality many editors have, vi supports full-blown regular expression search and search-replace. It's got many little features that let you do more work with less keystrokes but regexes is the "wow" one.
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