QotD: Text Editor
Posted November 15th, 2005 @ 12:27pm by Erik J. Barzeski
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.
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Posted 16 Nov 2005 at 12:34pm #
TextMate won me over months ago after using SubEthaEdit and BBEdit. Snippets rock.
Posted 16 Nov 2005 at 12:56pm #
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.
Posted 16 Nov 2005 at 1:09pm #
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.
Posted 16 Nov 2005 at 1:25pm #
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.
Posted 16 Nov 2005 at 4:09pm #
I use nano/pico on the command line and subethaedit in OSX.
Posted 16 Nov 2005 at 5:07pm #
I use primarily emacs and SubEthaEdit. And sometimes TextWrangler, as it has outstanding scripting support.
Posted 16 Nov 2005 at 10:59pm #
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.
Posted 18 Nov 2005 at 8:41am #
I'm still stuck in Windows, so ConTEXT does my daily editing. I use Nano for remote editing when SSHing.