What's your favorite editor to hack with?

Post by brlewis » Mon, Sep 17, 2007, 8:14 PM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #2

I love TextMate on the Mac. Personally I think it's the best thing since sliced bread :) The only problem is that it's not cross platform and it's not available when you're connecting over SSH into a server to fix some problems. I use Vi most of the time to just edit configuration files, etc, but I found it lacks the power I need for doing serious hacking (for all the vi lovers out there, I'm willing to admit this is…

Post by cturner » Sun, Sep 23, 2007, 8:22 AM UTC

far33d wrote: post #62

cturner wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

ex is the same executable as vim/vi these days.