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Bless the 79 people who voted for notepad.

I use notepad for two things: an extention of the clipboard; and it's great for removing formatting from text before you paste it somewhere else.

The clear winner is vi (or a variant). And that's impressive because whenever anyone who hasn't used UNIX much sees it they're astonished at it's apparent primitive-ness.

I couldn't imagine ever writing a script (or a lot of other things) without vi.

Always use vi..

Just love the shortcuts it provide.....

all hail vi editor !

Notepad.
But will lookin to vi. Seems that is the obvious choice.

vi for me

I voted for vim earlier, but now am very happy to know that vi/vim leads the race, that is also by 1000 votes difference.

I am proud to say that i use vim daily for all my programming and documentation needs. Also i too write "vi/vim tips & tricks" at the blog TGS.

I will sometimes use xedit but really only for the purpose of copying/pasting a large amount of info from an unlogged xterm. And, if I'm copying something from Unix box to Windows to put in, say, an email, I will first paste it into notepad before putting it into my email because pasting it directly into email generally tends to screw everything up.

When in a Unix environment, and actually editing something.... vi 100% of the time. And since a lot of what I end up doing is repetitive, I like the ex commands files. This was the first editor I ever worked with and I've never had a reason to change.