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vi
[bar] 43/47%
ex
[bar] 0/0%
pico
[bar] 8/9%
emacs
[bar] 17/19%
nedit
[bar] 7/8%
notepad
[bar] 3/3%
other
[bar] 13/14%
91 total votes
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RE: Your editor of choice is..
by yiango (Novice) on Jan 03, 2000 at 23:25 UTC
    I use 'fte' :)
RE: Your editor of choice is..
by da w00t (Sexton) on Jan 03, 2000 at 20:42 UTC
    Wow. I was the first post... er.. poll. :)
Re: Your editor of choice is..
by Jenda (Abbot) on Jul 16, 2006 at 08:14 UTC
Simpletext
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 03, 2000 at 22:35 UTC
    How could anyone overlook simpletext?
RE: Your editor of choice is..
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 04, 2000 at 18:16 UTC
    I like TextPad on my Windows PC.
      Wow! Someone else who uses TextPad. It's the best editor you'll ever find for Windows. Don't confuse it with WordPad ot Notepad - this is a full, commercial product that does almost everything emacs does. If you are stuck using Windows, try it out.
        Emacs 20.6 has been ported to Win32... hasn't it?

        Update: Yes, it has. 20.7 has, too. It's what I use.

Re: Your editor of choice is..
by aplonis (Pilgrim) on Apr 11, 2004 at 23:29 UTC

    Here is one from CPAN...

    T-Pad

    ...its called T-Pad and is in pure Perl.

    Reason I like it is mostly because it is pure Perl. I fought like hell to get Perl approved by the IT department where I work. I hadn't the energy to do the same bit over again for TextPad. But now that Perl is installed on all the PC's at work, now I have at least an editor aimed at Perl...and don't need any IT approval to run it. Hurrah!

    Also because it is in pure Perl, I can actually add features. It took only minutes to add in a pull-down menu and add some handy Perl one-liners to run Perl Tidy, run pod2html, run PAR, copy *.pl as *.txt for downloading, etc. etc...

    At home I run OptiPerl on Win32 and Nedit on NetBSD Unix. But at work I make do with T-Pad. It doesn't compare to OptiPerl, or even Nedit, but it sure beats the daylights out of Notepad, WordPad and their ilk.

Re: Your editor of choice is..
by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 23, 2007 at 13:39 UTC
    What's next? A poll about indenting? Geez...

    --shmem

    _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                                  /\_¯/(q    /
    ----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
    ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
Re: Your editor of choice is..
by artist (Parson) on Dec 24, 2007 at 01:42 UTC
    I used vi for many years and then one day, I learned Emacs. After that I never turned back to vi unless absolutely necessary. I am surprised to see the low % of emacs here so far.
    --Artist
Re: Your editor of choice is..
by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 23, 2007 at 18:53 UTC
    1. Chisel and big rock
    2. quill pen
    3. stick in the sand
    4. stubby pencil
    5. eraser
    6. Whiteout
    7. prefontal lobotomy
Re: Your editor of choice is..
by thiagu_mvt (Sexton) on Jul 14, 2009 at 08:49 UTC
    EditPlus for windows. It offers syntax highlighting.
Re: Your editor of choice is..
by mildside (Friar) on Feb 09, 2004 at 04:43 UTC
    I edit under Windows (even my Unix programs), and I quite like ConTEXT editor. It knows about Perl, has lots of features, and it's free.

    Cheers!

Re: Your editor of choice is..
by Marza (Vicar) on Jul 16, 2006 at 08:29 UTC
Re: Your editor of choice is..
by Onur (Beadle) on Dec 23, 2007 at 11:21 UTC
    vim is my preferred editor for perl. Actually I am writing everything with vim.
    Onur Aslan
BBEdit
by chrisabraham (Initiate) on Jan 05, 2000 at 04:33 UTC
    The best GUI editors in the history of computing (I said GUI because I use vi all the time and would never take the name of vi in vain) are BBEdit, Alpha, and Nisus. All have excellent and brilliant regex and are really built with everything in it. You need a Mac though.

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