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What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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vim, obviously.

Bah! Visual editors are so new-school. You should use ex :)

Sam is the coolest of the non-visual editors, but it's deceptive because it comes with a graphical mode. If you run with that off, though, it's ed on steroids.

Re: What's your favorite editor to hack with?

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currently I'm learning Emacs, and I'm loving it. For quick tasks (i.e.: config file, glue scripts) if emacs is not running (i.e.: connected on a server) then Vim. For really stupid things, cat ;)

Hmm, I've always found it odd how many people say they use emacs, but not for "quick" tasks. It's not like it takes long to start it up -- on my machine, emacs -f kill-emacs takes 0.12 seconds.
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