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View Poll Results: What is your preferred text editor?
vi or vi clone such as vim 908 73.28%
emacs 68 5.49%
notepad 67 5.41%
EditPlus 60 4.84%
UltraEdit 58 4.68%
pico 24 1.94%
nano 28 2.26%
mcedit 8 0.65%
nedit 18 1.45%
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Vi is my choice. Powerful, fast, low overhead.
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Sometimes I tried to use pico but the editor screwed me up although not every time.
but vi gives me the ease and the power to control everything in a file.
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