The best editor.?

[Jakob77]

1) What is the name of the best and most forward compatible editor.?

2) What editor do you actually use and what is the reason for it.?

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1: That is what I am trying to figure out with this subject.

2: I use Gedit because it was my first Linux editor and I guess I am a bit romantic about it. I also have a script connected with it but that is no big deal except the name of the command is "ged" and I have fun with that. In Denmark 'ged' means 'goat' and if something goes wrong a Dane might say in slang that there went goat in it. I think the name is good because it reminds me that I can really fast make a lot of goat in Linux with my editor.

[Stevo]

I am a survivor of the great emacs vs vim wars , and you have no idea what a can of worms/ Asian land war you getting involved in.

[timkb4cq]

I mostly use featherpad these days.
I never got in the vim/emacs war because I'd already been through the WordStar/WordPerfect wars a decade earlier.
If you like WordStar commands, Joe is an editor that uses those same commands. AFAIK nobody has ever tried to recreate the Function key memorization mess that was WordPerfect.

[figueroa]

Vim. For light GUI work, Mousepad or Leafpad, but I don't like to have to use the mouse for editing text files. (Featherpad is OK, but I don't need that much power for my use case.) Don't be fooled into thinking that GVim is a GUI text editor. It's just Vim in a GUI window instead of a terminal shell.

I understand that Vim seems impossible for the uninitiated. As a new user in 1984, I was told to use vi for some needed editing tasks (making scripts for running database queries), but I got stuck, and the only option on our system was ed/ex line editor which is even more difficult. I asked for help but was told to get a book, Unix Primer Plus. That contained everything I needed to get started down my road to power vi user (as well as power Unix/Linux user). Best book ever. You can read it on-line, or grab a getting-started-with-vim article or tutorial. You won't be sorry.

[AVLinux]

MousePad....

[Gaer Boy]

If you like WordStar commands, Joe is an editor that uses those same commands. AFAIK nobody has ever tried to recreate the Function key memorization mess that was WordPerfect. :p

You're being a bit hard, Tim. You only needed to remember the common F-keys - the keyboard overlay did the rest. Reveal Code (Alt-F3) gave unparalleled control when editing.

[Malik]

Geany (Super Fast Text Editor)

[Jakob77]

Fortunately, I don't have to settle a dispute.

Up to a point I guess it is already settled in MX since I get FeatherPad as first choice when I right click on a .txt file.

If we look a all of Linux maybe mousepad is the most common.?


I do remember Word Perfect for DOS had an editor ('ed').
I used it and I liked it but I have never seen it since.
I don't think we have it in Linux.?

[Eadwine Rose]

I remember I had a notepad. I still use it. Came with a pen and all.

I mean.. if you want to use old-fashioned stuff....

[MadMax]

Notepad Next for a GUI editor. It's pretty new and lacks quite a few features, but on the other hand it feels pretty lightweight.

Vim for console.