Re: [PLUG] Poll! editors (and possibly me burning at the stake)

["Brian Stempin" <brian.stempin@gmail.com>]

> have you heard of Win32Pad? it's another notepad replacement. if i'm in
> windows, it's my necessity. line numbering, minimize to try, and yet
> still clean and minimal.

When I'm in windows, I use the Crimson Editor.  It's small, it supports syntax formatting, and it's very easy to record and play macros for performing repetitive tasks to text files....in many cases, it's much faster than writing a script. 

On Nov 26, 2007 4:37 PM, Cliff Pankonien <cliff@ccpip.com> wrote:

pico here...actually i guess "pico" is an alias for nano in
ubuntu...i've used pico for years, and used to have to explicitly
install it in suse...then i switched to debian/ubuntu...typed "pico"
after an install, woohoo! already installed! then i realized it was
actually running nano, which as far as i can tell, is identical
keystroke-wise to pico. easy to use, powerful enough for me...

Eugene Smiley wrote:
> Brent Saner wrote:
>> wow, i really love all the responses! it's really helpful.
>>
>> James- i've noticed a similar trend; my coding/developer friends tend
>> to use emacs whilst the sysadmin buddies i have tend to use vi.
>>
>> Art- i totally forgot about the lesser ones, like Jed! as an added
>> bonus, jed has an "emacs emulation mode" and is a lot more lightweight
>> than emacs! i just found that interesting.
>>
> [snip]
>> let's keep this going, i'm curious as to what the rest of you use!
>
> Pico / Nano.
>
> I just want a simple editor that doesn't effing require me to memorize
> vast dictionaries of keycodes to do what I want to do, i.e. edit a text
> file. I should be able to use the arrow keys, the delete key, and be
> able to TYPE. I shouldn't have to enter "Edit Mode" since I'm in an
> editor. I should just be able to edit!
>
> Alternatively, I'll WinSCP to the Linux box and use Notepad++. I rarely
> even use the GUI console any more. I'm debating removing X from it
> totally. Putty and WinSCP do what I need.
>
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