Wikimedians by favorite text editor
List yourself under your favorite text editor here.
BBEdit[edit]
- Cyrius -- It (still) doesn't suck.
- Elektron (and vi on a console, since I haven't learned emacs or pico... I'm all alone here...)
- EVula -- All my web coding is done by hand. If my version supported non-Roman characters, I'd probably use it in my wiki-ing more often... time to upgrade!
- Pfv2
ed[edit]
- Aperculum - Ed is the standard text editor.
- Mozzerati - because wikipedians should be able to remember what they are editing.
edlin[edit]
editplus[edit]
emacs/xemacs[edit]
- Amayzes
- Ardonik 'cause VI sucks.
- bpt
- Catbar (Brian Rock) - XEmacs, actually
- Daekharel
- Ddawson (XEmacs) for most complex stuff
- Decumanus
- Idont Havaname - Notepad and emacs.
- Jérôme
- Koxinga
- Millosh
- Noldoaran
- Slowking Man
- The Anome
- Thib Guicherd-Callin
- Tualha
- Utcursch
- Fade
- Dylan Lake
EmEditor[edit]
- kahusi - Standard Version
- Penn Station
Epsilon[edit]
FTE[edit]
Gedit and forks[edit]
Pluma[edit]
HomeSite[edit]
- Minh Nguyễn – Allaire HomeSite 4.01
jedit[edit]
Joe[edit]
- Shallot
- Silume
- 212.202.57.141
- Ddawson for simple stuff
- Kittycatttmattt joe mama
Jove[edit]
- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick I love the speed. (plus see below)
Kate[edit]
- Krik - Best reason to use KDE.
- Eloquence
- Utcursch. I wish it were a part of GNOME.
- David Edgar - for coding
Metapad[edit]
- David Edgar - for simple tasks on Windows
nedit[edit]
Notepad[edit]
- Andrevan
- Aperculum
- Constafrequent
- FriedMilk Maybe not pro-Notepad so much as anti-Word...
- Idont Havaname - Notepad and emacs.
- Mike Storm - because I can hack in and change the font
- Optim
- Webkid
- Zanimum
- Codernaut
- Etoile
- Hołek
- acagastya
Notepad++[edit]
- David Edgar - Notepad++ when I need to code on Windows
- Nicole Sharp (talk) 18:53, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
NoteTab[edit]
OpenOffice[edit]
Perl[edit]
pico & clones[edit]
nano[edit]
- Simon Arlott
- Andrevan
- Spm
- Linuxbeak
- Lord Bob
- Linuxerist (on ubuntu)
- ugen64
- Allan Javier Aguilar Castillo
- David Edgar - for simple tasks on Linux/Unix
pico[edit]
- Zidane2k1 (too lazy to learn vi)
- Linuxerist (on suse)
SimpleText[edit]
syn[edit]
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"" >[edit]
cat[edit]
- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick The one I actually mostly use.
- Paddu What I use the first time I edit a file (afterwords I use Vim).
- Silume
- Kittycatttmattt i use this as an alternative to joe.
TeXShop[edit]
TextEdit[edit]
TextMate[edit]
- Animated Cascade - I finally found something I like more than Vim
TextPad[edit]
- gracefool
Hashar, now use 'vim' under Linux- Jyril -- TextPad rules!
- Joe D
- Suitov
- Thib Guicherd-Callin
- Vina
- Deniz Utku - simple is the best
UltraEdit[edit]
vi & clones[edit]
elvis[edit]
nvi[edit]
vi (the original)[edit]
- Austin Hair
- Bo Register
- CAPS LOCK no clones for me, just pure ex-vi.
- Penn Station
Vim[edit]
- Hashar
- Gwicke gvim, vim, vim-bonobo... Used Emacs before ;-)
- Kpjas
- Maveric149 (what? There are others?)
- Paddu
- Pakaran trying to learn to use it... mostly use Emacs at the moment
- Arvindn I get withdrawal symptoms if I don't use vim for a day or two
- User:Ramir
- bdesham
- Patrick-br, of course ;-).
- Marcelo R.
- Benc
- Yath though nedit is nice sometimes.
- Ayman
- Sam Hocevar
- Project2501a 14:36, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC) Editor != Operating system
- Djinn112
- Wins oddf
- R3m0t 01:32, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Nikai with aspell
- Mork the delayer Someone needs to develop a javascript version of vim so I can edit HTML text boxes with vim.
- ChaTo
- Jay
- Voyager640
- Collinj
- .anaconda - It's so cool on Mac OS X...
- PtrQs
WinEdt[edit]
- \Mikez And you talk about shortcuts in M$Word? 200 shortcuts and counting... (And I can find them!)
Word (Microsoft)[edit]
- Muriel Gottrop Is that so strange?... yes,it is, since messing up line breaks
- Menchi: Shortcuts and functions, unlike Notepad -- the only other editor I have.
- Mark Ryan - It's simply the best. Better than all the rest.
- Merovingian Duh.
- en:User:JB82
- RainbowToffee
- Neutrality 19:51, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Nichalp
- BrokenSegue - too lazy to use any of the others i have
- Martinman11 w00t!
- DarkEvil Just started using it the first time I needed to edit a text
- Love the import symbol feature Smiddle
- V0lkanic
Wordpad[edit]
Wordperfect[edit]
- KnightofNEE Go full control over text via reveal codes! (That and I grew up using it).
Wordstar[edit]
- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick (I am sorry, but this is a sentimental favorite) I have several editions of CP/M wordstar on 8 inch diskettes.
- User: Dr Paddle Don't be sorry. I miss Wordstar 5.5! I'm trying now to write macros in Word to prepare 60k-lines of text for import into a spreadsheet. Could have written the Wordstar macros in minutes! But now I have to learn VBA. Have a button on my office wall, "Keep your hands where they belong. Wordstar 5.5" (Learned Wordstar in CP/M on an Osbourne. Perfected it in DOS on a 286.)
Xyzzy[edit]
- Mulukhiyya (It's something, like a thoroughly domestic Common Lisp Emacs for Windows. I call it Jijii. Not recommended for 真人間.)
Other[edit]
- Mats 02:17, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
- Rogper 16:55, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
- Benc: vi under Linux; Crimson Editor under Windows.
- Utcursch. SciTE - when I am using Windows.
- Benn Newman (newmanbe) - Acme
- Treepad - Muzammil