i'm still not able to use vi even i use *nix few months already. so i use mcedit.

mostly i have to use vi, cause it's the default one, and usually you have to log on another machines, and they don't have my favorite "aee"

Man that's obscure, not even gentoo has it. What is it?

this stands for "advanced easy editor" but mostly referenced only as "easy editor" you may find it http://www.users.qwest.net/~hmahon/s...-1.4.2.src.tgz
it's very intuitional, similar to nano /pico

ALL HAIL vi

It takes some getting use to, though.

plain good old - vi - ;-)

I used to use joe ...

i voted for vi, because i use it by default. it is always there, and works the same (well, you know what i mean) on different systems. My first laptop had a nonfunctional escape key though, so somebody advised me to use emacs instead of vi (as, at that time i was a 100% newbie). I did like emacs, however having heard a lot of comments from people about bloat and unneccessary features, i tend to agree. also, emacs is not default on many systems, it is a third party application, as it were.

For GUI text editors though, i would choose gedit. It's not in the list i noticed, i was about to choose nedit in its absence, but had to go for vi, since i do actually use it more. When writing html i use bluefish, it has nice colour highlighting, but you'll need to rattle through the preferences on first run to set it up.

Other text based editors i liked were joe, nano, pico and jed. joe has a nice thing where it can sort of emulate emacs and pico (called by typing jmacs or jpico instead of joe) which i liked a lot. on smaller systems for older PCs, it can be a better idea to have joe instead of emacs for this reason.

GUI editor=krwite
console editor=vi
alias vi='vim'

As "Zazzy bob" says the VI editor helps to learn SED comands as well ... I also learned SED after using VI only ,really intresting ...

VI is the King of kings for ever.......

Although it's not on the the poll, Mac users are familier with OS X's editor called TextEdit. If you open a shell in OS X, vim is the default editor.

If you ever expect to really use Unix or if you ever expect to use other Unix systems (SCO, Solaris etc), yes. vi is the standard Unix editor; you'll probably have to learn how to use it eventually.

http://mind-map-you.blogspot.com/200...-mind-map.html

I used to use pico when I first started out, but I have gotten more and more used to vi and it rocks! Speaking of which, rocky vi is due out soon.

Vim 6.4 for Windows and then transfer it to the unix system

This is more out of practicality since I just like having the menu bars at the click of a mouse and I'm just more comfortable with the GUI version. Also most of the system I work with are set to run level 3 and don't have any GUIs installed or configured so it's not going to do me much good to startx.

Personal favorite editor of mine is rm -f
Never complains about syntax and the result is always as expected, a blank line and no file

been doing vi so long it's second nature now. Great forum btw.