Wikimedians by favorite text editor

List yourself under your favorite text editor here.

BBEdit

• 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

• Aperculum - Ed is the standard text editor.
• Mozzerati - because wikipedians should be able to remember what they are editing.

edlin

• Herostratus

editplus

• Bogdan
• Morbid-o
• Dario ^_^ (talk)

emacs/xemacs

• 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

• kahusi - Standard Version
• Penn Station

Epsilon

• Noel

FTE

• Eequor

Gedit and forks

• Andrevan
• Admrboltz
• Aleksandrit
• Nasir Khan Saikat
• Ralgis

Pluma

• Gamliel Fishkin

HomeSite

• Minh Nguyễn – Allaire HomeSite 4.01

jedit

• Ravn ..plus nedit for the quick stuff and vi on console. Yay for Java!
• Kaster
• Dungodung

Joe

• Shallot
• Silume
• 212.202.57.141
• Ddawson for simple stuff
• Kittycatttmattt joe mama

Jove

• Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick I love the speed. (plus see below)

Kate

• Krik - Best reason to use KDE.
• Eloquence
• Utcursch. I wish it were a part of GNOME.
• David Edgar - for coding

Metapad

• David Edgar - for simple tasks on Windows

nedit

• Karol Langner

Notepad

• 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++

• David Edgar - Notepad++ when I need to code on Windows
• Nicole Sharp (talk) 18:53, 22 September 2023 (UTC)

NoteTab

• Alison9

OpenOffice

• Lzygenius
• Aleksandrit

Perl

• Silume

pico & clones

nano

• Simon Arlott
• Andrevan
• Spm
• Linuxbeak
• Lord Bob
• Linuxerist (on ubuntu)
• ugen64
• Allan Javier Aguilar Castillo
• David Edgar - for simple tasks on Linux/Unix

pico

• Zidane2k1 (too lazy to learn vi)
• Linuxerist (on suse)

syn

• sheridan

Terminal emulator/command prompt-related

"" >

• Silume

cat

• 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

• Cat

TextEdit

• iKato

TextMate

• Animated Cascade - I finally found something I like more than Vim

TextPad

• gracefool
• Hashar, now use 'vim' under Linux
• Jyril -- TextPad rules!
• Joe D
• Suitov
• Thib Guicherd-Callin
• Vina
• Deniz Utku - simple is the best

UltraEdit

• Dori
• A-giâu
• Gurmeet S. Kochar
• LarryEitel
• VampWillow

vi & clones

nvi

• Dysprosia

vi (the original)

1. Austin Hair
2. Bo Register
3. CAPS LOCK no clones for me, just pure ex-vi.
4. Penn Station

Vim

• 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

• \Mikez And you talk about shortcuts in M$Word? 200 shortcuts and counting... (And I can find them!)

Word (Microsoft)

• 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

• Sesel
• Sarazyn

Wordperfect

• KnightofNEE Go full control over text via reveal codes! (That and I grew up using it).

Wordstar

• 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

• Mulukhiyya (It's something, like a thoroughly domestic Common Lisp Emacs for Windows. I call it Jijii. Not recommended for 真人間.)

Other

• 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