By: Matias
Emacs last?? I don't buy that, I've been using Linux and Vim for programming for 3 years now and I've seen A LOT more people using Emacs than using nano and Gedit, there is probably as many people using Emacs as there is using Vim...
By: nwmsocal702
People can say what they wan't but vim and emacs are by far the two best text editors/environments ever made for developing, programming, editing a config file or just plain writing a text file. I think we all know that nothing else really even compares to those two. Especially for development if you are using any programming language with the exception of Microsoft garbage and possibly Java and you are not using vim or emacs you are seriously doing yourself a disservice. Or if your a systems admin knowing vi is an essential skill, even if your are just someone who enjoys learning about computers or writes a lot of text in my opinion it is well worth it to learn vim or emacs, do not let anyone fool you these two pieces of software are more powerful and capable then any so called "modern" GUI equivalant IDE or text editor both vim and emacs are complete environments with built in programming languages, full fledged macro support, thousands of plugins and much much more.
To be honest I'm a loyal vim user but I would probably have to give the advantage to emacs as far as extend ability goes I just prefer vims modal editing over emacs and it's true both editors take an investment of time to learn, but learning the basics is not really all that difficult. Spend 30mins to an hour and either start vim-tutor in vim or emacs built in tutorial and I guarantee you in less than an hour you will be able to use either editor for all your basic text editing needs. And from there the sky is the limit that one piece of software will serve you in many uses need a text editor, need an IDE, need a file browser, need a email client (mutt can use vim), need an scp/sftp client and virtually anything else can be done so IMHO its well worth it to learn.
By: Pawan
Hi,
any one tell me which Editor best for Python Script in Linux CLI mode not gui for save indentation.
By: dangson
Never know how to exit vim except close the terminal. :)
Nano is my best friend when I have no GUI, then Sublime Text for GUI.
By: shmoib
kate
notepad++ ran over wine
By: CFWhitman
@Paul Gresham
I realize Paul will probably never see this comment, but just to make something clear for anyone who reads Paul's comment. The editor vim does indeed save documents in plain text. In fact, as far as I am aware, like most text editors, that's the only format it can save documents in. Everything else is just the extension you use to name your file.
Yes, you can save a file with an html extension, but html files are plain text files; the extension just lets programs know that the file is expected to function as html code. Saving something as plain text is as simple as naming the file with a txt extension (in Windows anyway; in Linux no extension can also work)
The only stumbling block you may run into is that Unix/Linux uses a line feed as an end of line while Windows/DOS expects a carriage return and a line feed.
By: h2
vim for in-terminal editing
sublime for a GUI interface editor (much better than g-edit, the improved ctrl+f is worth it enough)
By: antgaucho
Fionn, that was too subtle. I'm not confident enough of these posters, e.g. the credential wrangler, have seen <a href="http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> . That post, but come to think of it ed as well, has brought me near tears more than once.
My two cents--I'm a vi user, so I use vim and gvim (depending mostly on whether I'm coming from a gui interface.) I'd say most days I use both of them. Discussing GUI editors per se is off-topic IMO, and would make another interesting poll. Development environments are way off topic. OSes are, well, you get the idea.
By: Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
*XEmacs* has been my favorite editor since 1992, and it runs on a variety of platforms (I'm using it and have used it in the past on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X). As a computational linguist, I've always found it useful to have powerful macro capabilities and a full LISP interpreter built in for automating tasks like text processing (e.g. for editing lexicons). XEmacs has a shell mode, VM for email, and the GNUS news reader built in, so like your Web browser, you will never really close it.
Recently, I'm enjoying Sublime for note taking and coding as well.
By: Chidanand
Dear @rg,
After reading your long crappy comment, I am really in doubt about your experience you mentioned.
Windows actually was created for dummy(no-voice) users. Linux are for servers. GUI eats the system resources like popcorn and geeks don't need that. So Linux is used where reals geeks work like web servers and Super-computers. Your Windows have no work there,it's only for non-geek users.
In command line I can login on 200 servers at a time and can run command at a time. Go, and do the same in GUI. In bash I can maximize my server uptime and productivity by not wasting my resources on GUI.
Go and try hacking or pen-testing via your Windows.
Thing is that all you can do with Windows, I can do that on bash CLI. But you can only do 30-40% of job on Windows GUI of bash CLI.
I doubt your experience because you took 9 hours for that simple thing. I work on AWS cloud with 166 CentOS servers. I can configure all servers SIMULTANEOUSLY just in 3 hours through CLI.