If you use Linux or even Windows, you know that finding a free text editor is not a problem at all. On Linux this realm is dominated by the two Goliaths we affectionately call Emacs and Vi. However, those are more power user text editors. Most users just need a text editor that lets them type in words without having to memorize keyboard combinations. Crazy, I know.
This article over at Linux.com explores some of the options that users have on the Linux side. Interestingly enough, I never heard of any of the ones they mention until I read the article. Might have to give them a go one day (only to return to my first true love, Vi).
I personally use the follow-up to pico, nano. [Well, it's not a true followup ... it's a more free/FREE version that emulates pico's functionality.]
I save my zealotry for religion.
According to my Emacs using friend, “It’s not a text editor unless it can play tetris and technically qualify as a sort of operating system”
I also use nano.
Emacs people are very weird like that. Almost to the point of being masochistic I would say, but then I would have to say whatever floats your boat…
I personally like vim (pretty much vi) for code, but for simple stuff and comfig files I don’t know of anything simpler for the job than nano.
“If you use Linux or even Windows, you know that finding a free text editor is not a problem at all.”
However, finding a GOOD free text editor on Windows can be a bit of a task :(.
Haha, that’s why you gotta take the time to learn Vim!!!! ;-)
Textpad is good on windows, and it’s shareware… just a little box when you open it if you don’t want to pay.
As for Vim… what about Vigor?