don’t really have a favorite editor. What I use depends on what environment I’m working in.

I started on IBM mainframes and DEC minis, went from there to Unix, and next stops were MSDOS, Windows. and Linux.

On mainframes, the realistic choice is ISPF.
On DEC boxes, edt got the nod. On Unix, you learned vi because it was likely to be available when things like emacs weren’t. On MSDOS, you learned WordStar for the same reasons. I maintain basic fluency in all three.

In Windows, I normally use a fork of Florain Ballmer’s Notepad2 called Notepad2-mod. It’s small, comes up fast, and can replace standard Notepad with a registry hack. Most of the editing I do is quick and dirty scripts and config file changes, so I don’t need one of the big guns, though I have an assortment available.

On Linux, I normally use vi from a command line, and gedit or lightweight IDE geany from a GUI. Again, my needs are modest.

My current “Hey, that’s neat!” candidate is Albrecht Kliene’s e3. e3 is a rara avis – a Linux editor written in assembler. It has partial emacs, ne, pico, vi and WordStar emulations, and which personality it assumes depends on the name it is called by. There is also a generic C source file for bringing e3 up on other machines. On Windows7 here, the underlying EXE is all of 20K in size.

See http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?E3
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Dennis

My default editor is Codelobster
What can Yousay about me? :)

Left a few obscure good ones: pepper, ne and aee. I actually use ne as my editor of choice.

I use vi a lot for quick stuff, but for certain operations (esp. regular expressions), I turn to NEdit, the graphical text editor they started us with back in college.

UltraEdit. For when you want your editor with a splash of missionary zeal

Text editors suck. I handwrite my code with pencil and paper, snap a pic with my iPhone and OCR it

I love gedit : I have customized the gedit to look/act like TextMate ..

What about Smultron/Fraise? :D

An extra vote for Gedit; it can be “da’Bomb” for pretty much anything! Very flexible and extensible if needed.

Jason F wrote:

Bull computer

HVS Version 6

full screen editor: SCORPEO

not bad.

Hi, Jason. I’m desperately looking for Honeywell-Bull’s SCORPEO editor. I made a personal web-site mainly dedicated to Honeywell, but unfortunatly I haven’t found any screenshots about editors. Have you anything? Please, send me links, pictures, whatever about Honeywell!!
My adress: bigdenis962@yahoo.com
Look at my site at: http://personal.stcable.net/~bigdenis/@ Jason F:

I like notepad ++ because of it’s plug in. It’s great tool for work with different languages..