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View Poll Results: What is your preferred text editor?
vi or vi clone such as vim 857 73.19%
emacs 65 5.55%
notepad 66 5.64%
EditPlus 58 4.95%
UltraEdit 54 4.61%
pico 23 1.96%
nano 25 2.13%
mcedit 8 0.68%
nedit 15 1.28%
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Vi is my choice. Powerful, fast, low overhead.
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where would this world be without vi ? :-)
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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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i thought vi is faster...
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