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View Poll Results: What is your preferred text editor?
vi or vi clone such as vim 789 72.79%
emacs 61 5.63%
notepad 63 5.81%
EditPlus 53 4.89%
UltraEdit 52 4.80%
pico 22 2.03%
nano 21 1.94%
mcedit 8 0.74%
nedit 15 1.38%
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I use VI and VIM on the Linux and Unix command line. I've never used anything consistently but VIM and VIM in 18 years.
...what is emacs anyway? Whoops, did I type that out loud?
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VI is the way to go! also Sun has improved VI editor in new solaris 10
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re: editors

i use vi, but hate it... if you are in your CDE, use the notepad editor.

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i use vi, but hate it... if you are in your CDE, use the notepad editor.

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Learn vi and you will love it. I don't know anyone who *really* learned vi and hates it.
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I second what dangral posted - once you learn it you will love it - its a very powerful editor
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