Comments on: What does your favorite text editor say about you?

by: PHP Programmer

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:43:16 +0000

Emacs all the way! lol I havent used it in a while but was very useful for me.

by: nathan

Fri, 09 May 2008 06:42:57 +0000

I use edxor a lot. It’s small, simple, and unobtrusive. Then again I don’t write very complicated code.

by: DMcCunney

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:34:39 +0000

Thanks for the chuckles. The first real text editor I ever used was on an IBM mainframe via a 3270 terminal. It emulated TSO/SPF with some additional bells and whistles, and when the shop moved to “real” TSO/SPF, I thought it was a step backward. Among other things, editors on block mode devices have a completely different idea of “full screen editing” than anything people see on a PC.

The first PC editor I learned was WordStar, back in the days when it was the second editor you learned because the first one you preferred might not be available on the PC you had to work on. I still prefer to remap my editor keystrokes to WS if possible to avoid retraining my fingers.

I’ve used most of the ones you mentioned. These days, I use vi or vim on *nix boxes, and an assortment of things on PCs.

I like good things in small packages, so my favorites are probably Dr. David Nye’s e.com (an MS-DOS editor that did word wrap, right and left margins, and macros in 5KB, and Brian Kelley’s MS-DOS tm, which implements emacs key bindings, macros, and unlimited undo in 4KB.

Folks interested in editors in general should look at http://texteditors.org, a wiki devoted to the topic, which has so far identified and listed 742 editors for various platforms.
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Dennis

by: sloopy

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:15:53 +0000

hmm nice, but back in the day on macs i used to use BBEdit, it is a very nice editor, even bought several versions of it, but i started with vi, continued to use vi when on a non-mac and now use vi(m) exclusively…

vim-
when a mountain gets in the way,
a clear path is a few keystrokes away…

sloopy.

by: Luke Maciak

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:51:39 +0000

Heh… I guess the user-agent sniffing plugin doesn’t know about HP-UX. Either that, or your Mozilla does not have any OS relevant information in the user agent.

by: riffraff

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:46:42 +0000

Oh, you did not get my OS-info:
It is HP-UX 11.11

by: riffraff

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:45:19 +0000

Hi,
I am using VI and on PCs (yikes) GVIM.
The descriptions are absolutely correct I am a system administrator. Also I like to use ED in singel-user-mode

by: Alex Kritikos

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:53:36 +0000

Personally, I like Acme. It’s from Plan 9 (what the guys at Bell Labs did after Unix), but has been ported to OS X, Linux and other Unixy things. Syntax highlighting? Nope. Consistent, powerful, simple interface that actually uses the mouse well? Yes.

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Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:48:41 +0000

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by: Luke Maciak

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:48:40 +0000

Oh, no - I haven’t implied they are the same. But edlin was kinda inspired by ed. It is not the same tool, nowhere near as standard, and useful. It was merely and attempt to bring ed like functionality to the world of DOS.

So I’m merely saying that an edlin user would be roughly equivalent to a hard core ed user in due to their old school ways in their respective domains (DOS and unix). Or something like that.

Btw, I don’t use ed itself, but I write sed scripts all the time to accomplish various tasks. Does that count?