My favourite editor is?
Submitted by kamaraju
| vi-like |
   64% | 105 votes |
| Emacs-like |
20% | 33 votes |
| Another |
14% | 23 votes |
| Total 163 votes |
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Ooooh a flame-war!
Steve
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First thing I do when I install Debian is install nvi, then set the editor[1] as the default and remove nano.
[1] update-alternatives --config editor
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I'm the same, I was a hardcore Emacs user for many years because my early experiences with vi were painful.
Then I read a couple of good tutorials, and one of the O'Reilly books which explained how it worked and nowadays I tend to prefer it.
I still use Emacs for debugging in, and for when I want to have lots of files open at once - but otherwise vim is the editor I prefer.
Some good links are:
- Beginners guide to Vim
- Introduction to text editting for Programmers - with some nice screenshots.
Steve
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nano kicks ass. it's a great editor because it doesn't presume the user is a snooty wannabe hacker who wants to learn a dozen keystrokes just to update some configuration file.
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vi for quick stuff, in Gnome I use gedit for quick stuff.
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