What Notepad replacement do you use?

[Wanderer]

textpad was my tool of choice but notepad++ is free and just as good.

Those two are my choice too for PeeCee stuff.

vi :wq!

Bit of a marmite one that... I hate vi with a vengeance and always will, that editor is the work of the DEVIL. There are so many more intuitive editors like emacs, jove, pico etc.

[eek]

Those two are my choice too for PeeCee stuff.



Bit of a marmite one that... I hate vi with a vengeance and always will, that editor is the work of the DEVIL. There are so many more intuitive editors like emacs, jove, pico etc.

vi is actually my unix choice. But that is because I've used it on and off for 15 years and know enough of the key combinations off the top of my head that can I edit a file from the console without thinking.

[FiveTimes]

emacs for me

[stek]

Bit of a marmite one that... I hate vi with a vengeance and always will, that editor is the work of the DEVIL. There are so many more intuitive editors like emacs, jove, pico etc.

Essential for us techies when only left with the root slice/partition in rescuing the system. Other more feature rich editors may need libraries on now unmounted slices/partitions.

Anyway, vi makes the command line command editing fun 'set -o vi' is one on my first things to type if not already set....

[RasputinDude]

yup, vi on linux/UNIX.

emacs is horrid. Absolutely, unbearably horrid.

[eek]

yup, vi on linux/UNIX.

emacs is horrid. Absolutely, unbearably horrid.

+ a few billion.

emacs is with a tendency to encourage

[darmstadt]

Ah, forgot, primary editors are ISPF/PDF and XEDIT :-)

[Sysman]

I've been using TextWrangler a bit on the Mac lately for things like server config files, though I use Eclipse for most development work. Straightforward text editing just gets done in TextEdit.

Did you realise that TextEdit can read .doc files?

[Sysman]

Essential for us techies when only left with the root slice/partition in rescuing the system. Other more feature rich editors may need libraries on now unmounted slices/partitions.

However as I found out recently if you are using a keyboard where the escape key isn't recognised, you are somewhat stuffed...

[Wanderer]

Essential for us techies when only left with the root slice/partition in rescuing the system. Other more feature rich editors may need libraries on now unmounted slices/partitions.

Oh yeah, my guru once told me it's even possible to use it on a teletype printer. I know how to use vi and will use it when I have to but I still think it's a piece of tulip.

yup, vi on linux/UNIX.
emacs is horrid. Absolutely, unbearably horrid.

Told ya it was a marmite one.