Comments on: Free text editors for the rest of us

By: JC

JC — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:04:26 +0000

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?

Scrivs — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:23:09 +0000

Haha, that’s why you gotta take the time to learn Vim!!!! ;-)

Vinnie Garcia — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 01:42:19 +0000

“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 :(.

Neil — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:17:35 +0000

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.

Scrivs — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:47:44 +0000

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…

beatniklew — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:26:49 +0000

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.

Geof — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:04:20 +0000

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.