pico vs emacs vs vi vs edit vs notepad

Encoded? Why would you encode an answer when its so obvious?

Notepad owns all.

Once you know the commands, vi is the best. There is so much it can do. However, it has a steep learning curve that deters most poser programmers.

I''d just like to say that emacs is horrible, or at least that version of emacs (is it X-emacs or something) that involves all those stupid mouse+keyboard combination shortcuts.

Emacs is a great desktop environment and email client. Too bad it lacks a decent editor.

Honestly, they all suck. I haven''t bothered to actually look, but I have yet to encounter an editor that brings nirvana (PFE included). It doesn''t help that I include appearance as a criterion.

nano!

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''Tis true, Notepad owns all.

VI!

emacs seems too clunky. I like vi cause it''s seems so lightweight. It''s easy to learn the basic commands too.

SciTE owns all.
Ever since I downloaded it about 2 months ago, it''s all I use.

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I didn't realize there was a competition here... its notepad, obviously.

And please learn how to spell, you make yourself look retarded when you mix 1337 with mispelled words.

[edited by - zer0wolf on May 27, 2003 5:42:42 PM]

copy con

but seriously I use nano and vi quite a lot, along with gEdit; under windows, usually notepad (or MSVC - notepad can''t handle some EOL characters for some reason).

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- saving pigs from untimely fates, and when he''s not doing that, runs The Binary Refinery.

vim is the best for me. Code block folding, very clean, regexps, and too much more. It''s tough to break into but just like Linux, give it a year or two and it''s the fastest damn thing you will ever use.

Current vimrc if anyone is interested (check out the statusline setting, hehehe):

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
" Vim internals
set nocp
set vb 
set autoindent 
set nobackup
set hidden
set number
set ruler
set laststatus=2 
set statusline=\ \ %03.5c\ :\ %03.5l/%03.5L\ \ \ \ \ %-03.3m%-04.4r\ %-050.50F\ 
"set insertmode

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
" Folding
set foldmethod=indent
set foldcolumn=2
set foldlevelstart=99

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
" Tabs
set ts=4
set expandtab
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
" Key bindings

" Misc keys
"imap     :foldclose
"imap      :foldopen
"imap      :!make
"imap      :bp
"imap      :bn

" Quit, Save, Open, New
map  :q!
map  :w
map  :e\ 
map  :enew
imap  :q!
imap  :w
imap  :e\  
imap  :enew

" Find, Find Next, Replace, Find Tag
map  / 
map  // 
map  
map  :tag 

" Close New Prev Next buffer controls
set hidden
map  :bdelete
map  :enew
map  :bn
map  :bp
imap  :bdelete
imap  :enew
imap  :bn
imap  :bp

" XMMS controls
map    :!xmms -r
map    :!xmms -p
map    :!xmms -t
map    :!xmms -f

""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
" Universal syntax highlighting
set autoindent
syntax on

highlight Todo          ctermfg=red              
highlight Comment       ctermfg=red                
highlight Error         ctermfg=white   ctermbg=red
        
highlight PreCondit     ctermfg=darkgreen        
highlight Operator      ctermfg=darkgreen         

highlight Conditional   ctermfg=darkgreen          
highlight Include       ctermfg=darkgreen           
highlight Structure     ctermfg=darkgreen            
highlight Statement     ctermfg=darkgreen             
highlight Type          ctermfg=darkgreen              
highlight PreProc       ctermfg=darkgreen               
highlight Macro         ctermfg=darkgreen                
highlight StorageClass  ctermfg=darkgreen                 
highlight Repeat        ctermfg=darkgreen                  
highlight Label         ctermfg=darkgreen                   

highlight String        ctermfg=darkyellow           
highlight Float         ctermfg=darkyellow            
highlight Number        ctermfg=darkyellow             
highlight SpecialChar   ctermfg=darkyellow              
highlight Character     ctermfg=darkyellow               
highlight Boolean       ctermfg=darkyellow                

highlight folded        ctermfg=white   ctermbg=blue
highlight foldcolumn    ctermfg=white   ctermbg=blue
highlight statusline    ctermfg=white   ctermbg=blue
highlight linenr        ctermfg=white   ctermbg=blue
 

anybody out there work with ultraedit? I love it...I was all about notepad until I found ultraedit.

pico you fools! VI is teh suck. No one shoud learn how to use an editor, it should be totally obvious.

Notepad and EDIT are the best, simply beacause it''s so easy to have fun with the menu''s in a hex editor. You should see my new version of "notepad"... hehe...

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I use edwin for my Scheme stuff. Edwin is the same as emac (just with Scheme instead of Lisp). It''s true that it has a steep learning curve but when you''ve got it all memorized it works really well...

But as a true text editor I''d choose TextPad.

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I''ve been using gvim on Windows for quite a while now(2 years). It sucks for a lot of reasons, including, but not limited to:

- The cursor cannot be outside of the visible area. If you try to scroll away from the cursor, the cursor follows.
- Managing larger projects with more than a couple of files is awkward at best
- You are required to save a buffer before changing to another
- The adherence to Windows UI standards is sketchy at best, even when sourcing mswin.vim
- It leaves you very dependent on your .vimrc - it''s pretty hard to use when you''re at a location without your own .vimrc

[X]Emacs is just huge...

Notepad is pretty useless since it cannot handle files with other line ending styles than CRLF. The fact that it has no autoindent and no way to change the tabsize doesn''t help either.

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Editpad!

why would anyone need anything else besides notepad?

[edited by - MrPoopypants on May 27, 2003 6:15:57 PM]