Programming and Scripting :: Favorite text editor?

At first, I thought commandline editors were anachronisms from the green screen days, good only for geek points.

But once I started playing around with linux and the console in particular, it became apparent just how quick vim could be to make that tweak to a config file.

And you only really ever seem to need to know just a few vim commands for that purpose (although I soemtimes edit scripts with it as well): insert, replace, delete line, search, save and quit, quit without saving.

The only annoyance is getting on a system which is perverse enough to only have vi instead of vim, and finding that backspace or something doesn't work.

Having used pico for the past 5 or so years, nano gets my vote hands down.

Not all that keen on beaver - especially the way it handles seach and the way you can't cursor up on a wordwrapped line (unless I'm missing something config wise). I used to use notetab lite under windows which nailed it for how I like to work with gui text editors.

When I have to use a cmd line editor nano or pico are my choices, never learned vim or vi.

cbagger01, I did not think anyone would remember compuserve. Expensive and for me long distance took all night to download a simple picture, got to like xkermit.

The old days, that were really not that long ago!

I'm just stupid when it comes to vim, i've tried it but still can't figure out how to use it. I'll just stick with nano.

I've always found that joe suits my needs best. Every once in a while I try to use vim, but I always end up disliking it more than the time before.

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