Which text editor do you use?

Dave!

Hey folks,

Just wanted to get an overview of which text editor people are using these days Hopefully not starting a flame war! :pac:

Might be useful to say what kind of development you do, also.

Maybe we can steer clear of the IDE vs. text editor debate, as it came up elsewhere and got a bit heated! I'm more interested in, for people who 'just' use a text editor, which do they use?

I'm a Ruby developer mostly, but pretty much for everything I use Sublime Text 2. If I'm working on something on a server directly, or for small changes where I'm already on the command line, I'll use Vim.

I'm still learning how to use Vim. I can do the basics handily enough now, but I don't know enough about it to be able to get much productivity out of it.

KonFusion

ST2 for pretty much everything.

There's a recent similar thread here.

Ludo

NotePad++

Find it to be the fastest for opening files so I use it by default.

Colonel Panic

I use Vim for OSX and Linux development quite a lot. Probably 80% of the time... I like Notepad++ for Windows but for the most part I stick within the bounds of Visual Studio.

Useful.Idiot

Sublime Text 2. Decided to give it a go for a current project. It's just so...sexy.

Steve

notepad++ is a great all rounder, just discovered it a few months ago.

It's got some great auto formatting features for looking at scripts & xml.

RealistSpy

notepad++

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notepad++
vi
eclipse

GreenWolfe

Notepad++, nano, and gedit in order of most to least usage. I'm also trying to get my head around Vim, but failing miserably

Unregistered.

Notepad++ as a default for pretty much any text files. Has an FTP plugin as well so it's useful for remote editing.

Mort5000

Notepad++ and VIM.
Occasionally Notepad if I'm lazy and need that magic F5 functionality.

jester77

Depends on what I'm doing but Sublime, VIM and IntelliJ covers everything.

croo

excluding IDE's I'm still using vi(m) & jEdit... I like that it's cross platform!

Skrynesaver

Vim, Eclipse (Testing Sublime @ the moment, still not sure...)

00833827

Sublime 2

PrzemoF

vim

Creamy Goodness

xcode
sublime
vi

ectoraige

ivimESC:wq

jmcc

On Linux, at the command line, 'joe'. On Windows, I have Dreamweaver for website code but I don't really write code on Windows.

Regards...jmcc

Reamer Fanny

NotePad++ or nano on linux

redman85

sublime text 2 with Emmet installed

AwayWithFaries

Notepad++ on Windows and vim on Linux.

Notepad++ is excellent, easy to use and setup. Vim takes a bit of getting use to but once you get the hang of it worth it.

timetogo

Notepad ++.
I tried Sublime Text but I found two negatives that turned me off it.
One is the cost if you want to license it.
The second (and bigger for me) was the fact that you can't print from it. I know some people will argue that printing is old fashioned or not needed but I need it. So I had Sublime Text for work and then Notepad++ (or anything else) to copy text into to print. I gave up after doing that for a few days.

Sparks

Always (g)vim, except when only vi is installed and I've no time to install vim.
Mind you, if you took all the people who answered "vim" and looked at their setup, I don't think you'd find much commonality. At last count vim had 4500+ scripts for everything from tweaking colour schemes to making it into a fully fledged ide for several languages; and that's without even mentioning vim-vs-gvim...

c_man

My main work would involve VS but for pumping out a python script, analysing log files etc it's Notepad++ all the way for me.

When I have to examine an issue with the build on Mac I find myself using Sublime Text, but I suppose I really should learn Vim or the likes...

Mo14

Just a lowly 2nd year Comp Sci. student here, but my setup is as follows:
Sublime text 2 for everything from C to Scheme to Python on Windows
Vim on Linux, mainly just for learning Django on my raspberry pi.
VS and Eclipse for C# and Java respectively.

SalteeDog

I don't do much coding at work but for personal stuff I use NotePad++ on Windows, Geany on Linux and Emacs for doing stuff directly on the server.

Tar.Aldarion

Just use gedit, vi and vim mostly. I'll use an IDE given half a chance.

Trojan

Notepad2 - it's a drop in replacement for Windows Notepad. Does syntax highlighting, pretty much everything else needed in a coder's text editor, and loads as fast as system Notepad (very important to me).

ChRoMe

Notepad++ on windows, vi on Linux.

returnNull

notepad++

Dante

NotePad++ nice and handy

rainbow kirby

Sublime Text 2, particularly because work paid for the licenses for us. Also vim when I want to do quick edits. Rarely use IDEs - even for C++ I still tend to use ST2.

Will use notepad++ if I have to use Windows.

Manach

Unix world: Vi
Windows, Simple text editing: Notepad ++
Win/Mac, Documentation: OpenOffice Writer.