On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:16:51AM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:47:43AM +0000, samwise wrote:
Hey,
We touched on this briefly last night after the question was asked about the best Linux replacement for UltraEdit, but we didn't really get into it as we were all getting ready to stuff ourselves with Hoi Sin sauce.
I thought it'd make an interesting thread. So, suggestions for favourite editors.
Without getting into a flame war between vi and emacs ... what editor do you prefer for light-weight editing? i.e. not a full IDE like eclipse or KDevelop, but just for the little jobs of editing small text files.
I use vim fairly much for everything (including composing this mail, ahh for being able to use a sensible editor in your mail client), light or heavy wieght, I find that using the same editor everywhere means that I don't have to switch brain to another mode for using a different editor, and what I want to do is fairly much always at my finger tips. (Oh, and I mostly entirely hate IDEs because they get the hell in the way of the code, waste memory, and give me no real advantages over being able to throw commands at a command line in a different window to my editor).
My philosophy exactly! :-)