Text Editors

[Krazed]

What's your preference when it comes to text editors in linux?

I use pico, and sometimes, barley ever, emacs.

[RoMi]

I use vi, becasue iago gave me the 5 sec. tutorial.  Its also the only one OpenBSD comes with by default.

[Joe]

pico!

[iago]

vi, vim, elvis.  Original vi is the most fun, but I prefer vim with syntax highlighting and auto indenting and stuff.

[Ergot]

vi or vim I don't really care. Use to be pico but then I changed my mind. Har.

* Ergot blames iago for pointing me in right directons :[!

[Quik]

vi, vim, winvi, or (rarely ever), pico.

[mynameistmp]

emacs during an X session. i'll use vim if i'm going CL mode

[iago]

emacs during an X session. i'll use vim if i'm going CL mode

My list of "Things To Do Before I Die" includes learning emacs. 

[deadly7]

emacs is another text editor? How hard could it be to learn if it is?

[iago]

If you think learning how to use a text editor is always easy, you've obviously never learned vi. 

emacs probably isn't horribly difficult, it's just learning how to use it and how it works that's tricky.

Also, to use emacs to its fullest, I'd like to learn how to make extensions for it which are written in Lisp.

[deadly7]

I don't have Linux.. I've used VI before though (once). didn't seem TOO hard for me, but then I only used it for about two minutes.

[mynameistmp]

Also, to use emacs to its fullest, I'd like to learn how to make extensions for it which are written in Lisp.

Technically they are written in Emacs Lisp, which is different than Common Lisp ;P Emacs Lisp is much simpler than Common Lisp, although standard emacs distributions offer an optional extension file that adds much of Common Lisps functionality to Emacs Lisp.

[Joe]

I forgot to mention that I also use gedit. =)

[iago]

Also, to use emacs to its fullest, I'd like to learn how to make extensions for it which are written in Lisp.

Technically they are written in Emacs Lisp, which is different than Common Lisp ;P Emacs Lisp is much simpler than Common Lisp, although standard emacs distributions offer an optional extension file that adds much of Common Lisps functionality to Emacs Lisp.

I know it's not standard Lisp.  But that wasn't important enough to the subject to mention, I figured :P

[Blaze]

Would KWrite count or is my definition of a text editor wrong? :P