List your favorite text editor(s)

[E]

Regardless of platform, I can't work without a text editor open at all times. I write almost everything in them and use them for countless utilitarian tasks.

My favorite on a Mac is TextMate. It may be the greatest ever made, but it's not being actively developed anymore. I use Notepad++ in Windows.

[ahow]

Notepad++ in Windows.

[atfl]

kwrite in KDE, nano from the prompt

[ahow]

Originally Posted by E

I use Notepad++ in Windows.

Do you use any extensions in Notepad++? I've tried and could never get them working properly. I only tried two, but neither would work.

[E]

Originally Posted by ahow

Do you use any extensions in Notepad++? I've tried and could never get them working properly. I only tried two, but neither would work.

Nope, not in Notepad++.

In TextMate, "extensions" are called bundles. They are really what make it so powerful. It's crazy what people come up with: from typesetting and automating LaTeX to doing Google searches in-line without leaving the text editor.

[Pseudolus]

Gardner Dozois.

[IMP]

KEDIT

[yoyo]

edlin

[llcooljabe]

Why use a text editor? (serious question)

[Ron Weasley]

Originally Posted by yoyo

edlin

Only when preparing code for debug.