Text Editors

[dougs]

This is a question about what you use when you want to edit a file that contains text.

Poll Text Editors

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[sbisson]

Something Scintilla-based on whatever OS I'm currently using.

By far the best text editing engine around...

[catyak]

Usually nano if in a text window, fallback is vi because that's usually part of Busybox. If it's a GUI then most likely kate, although mousepad/leafpad are options if it's not there. If I'm using Windows then I use med.

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[ang_grrr]

Mostly notepad (because I word on a windows enviroment) but nano and pico in linux, simply because I learnt to use pine in the early 90s.

[andrewducker]

Notepad++, which is Scintilla-based.

Not that I use a pure text editor that often.

[flick]

SubEthaEdit, which I suppose is closest to Notepad. But I'm not sure: I use it as though it were (except when I'm also using the nifty collaborative editing mode), but sometimes it does funny things when I use brackets and shortcut keys, and they well be based on something like Vi or Emacs. Dunno, never used them!