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QotD: Text Editor

Question: What text editor do you prefer (CLI, GUI, whatever)?

My Answer: BBEdit. Just about always have. Wish the tab implementation didn't suck… but it'll do.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

8 Responses to "QotD: Text Editor"

  1. TextMate won me over months ago after using SubEthaEdit and BBEdit. Snippets rock.

  2. TextMate for me. I finally bought it the other day and haven't looked back. TextMate probably takes a little more setup to get it how you want it, but once you do...you can't live without it.

  3. BBEdit. I also use the command line tools 'bbedit' & 'bbdiff'. I now use bbedit from the terminal more often than emacs, and I use the bbdiff tool as the compare utility from SourceOffsite.

  4. Try as I might, I am unable to switch from vi. I have and use BBEdit and TextWrangler, but I still prefer vi, even for editing files on my local system.

  5. I use nano/pico on the command line and subethaedit in OSX.

  6. I use primarily emacs and SubEthaEdit. And sometimes TextWrangler, as it has outstanding scripting support.

  7. Born and raised on BBEdit, but if I'm at work on Windows or a Unix box, I'll take vi(m) anyday. Not quite "just" a text editor, I'm digging Eclipse as an all around Java IDE.

  8. I'm still stuck in Windows, so ConTEXT does my daily editing. I use Nano for remote editing when SSHing.