lifehacker.com — From managing our to-do lists to writing code to jotting ideas to keeping a grocery list, nothing beats a solid plain text editor. On Tuesday we asked you to nominate your favorite text editor, and over five hundred passionate comments later, we've whittled your nominations down to the most popular.
May 1, 2008 View in Crawl 4
decavoltMay 3, 2008
Komodo Edit and Coda are both missing from that list, and they should be #1 and #2. Komodo's open source, cross platform, free, and seriously powerful while being really easy to use for any language. Then Coda is just plain brilliant for web development.Komodo<a class="user" href="http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/komodo_edit.mhtml">http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/kom ...</a>Coda<a class="user" href="http://www.panic.com/coda/">http://www.panic.com/coda/</a>
kaevesMay 5, 2008
And I use MS Paint!
cluckinchickenMay 5, 2008
Notepad++ has been pretty solid for me.
hello2usirMay 5, 2008
If you want a Notepad clone for Linux, use LeafPad.<a class="user" href="http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/">http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/</a>
Closed AccountMay 6, 2008
Yup, Kate is great. Although I use VIM and TextMate every few days and have used (Not "tried", used) all the other editors mentioned in the article I always come back to Kate.
polkoMay 7, 2008
notepad is ok...
andyboyd80May 18, 2010
UltraEdit ( <a class="user" href="http://www.ultraedit.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.ultraedit.com</a> )... Definitely
AnimalSoftwareMay 9, 2011
And this would improve most of them:
http://www.animal-software.com/dolphin-text-editor-menu.php