Editor Wars

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Opinions

By "editor" we are referring to a text editor, an ubiquitous program that is used to edit plain-text files. UNIX hackers often use them more than any other tool, to write code, edit configuration files, edit input and output files, etc. Editors can be very minimalistic (like joe) or very feature-ful (like Emacs). In any case, they are a case of a lot of debate.

The main candidates among programmers are vi and Emacs, and programmers are split roughly half-half between them. Recently, more and more programmers are using more GUIish IDEs, especially those that have adapted to Linux from a previous work in an Windows-environment.

In any case, here are the opinions of people about which editors they like.

• Editor Wars - Shlomi Fish