What is your favorite text editor?

In the Windows environment, I use TSE Pro (The Semware Editor).
It is a full block and column type editor with a full Pascal-based macro language for those willing to experiment.
I've used it since 1985 when it was first called "Qedit".

I've never found an equivalent for the 'nix world.
Then again, I don't have a need either.
 
astyle said:
I was a nano user on Linux, as well, but after switching to FreeBSD, I was happy to find that it has editors/nano...
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Yeah, I know FreeBSD has editors/nano but I'd like to use the one that comes with the base system. I wasn't a professional nano user, just basic text editing, not knowing much shortcuts of nano. ee(1) was a good editors/nano alternative, now i got used to editors/vim and it's very powerful compared to these two imo. I wish the vi(1) in base was supporting deleting by backspace, that confuses me sometimes.
 
Cthulhux said:
sam is the standard V10 UNIX text editor
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What does V10 UNIX have to do with FreeBSD? Other than the fact that V8, V9, and V10 are derived from some ancient release of BSD, I don't think they have anything to do with eachother. Irrelevant comments aside, I will continue my vi evangelism. I do use emacs when I am in X though.
 
RetroComputingCollector said:
I will continue my vi evangelism
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I used to use vi, but after seeing how it's made for old keyboards, and it's difficult to move around, I moved on to the light flavor of vim. I enter editors/vim@tiny to install this flavor. If I use the ports syntax with the flavor, it doesn't link: editors/vim.

When submitting a bug report about vi, it gets ignored. It seems like they consider those features. If I go to the beginning or end of a line, I have to go back into insert mode every time. It makes it difficult to add an # for lines I wish to comment out and to make other insertions. That's the way legacy keyboards are expected to act. I don't understand why something that functions like this isn't replaced in base with something closer to a light vim.

I started looking at ed(1) for a curses terminal. It's in base.

Cthulhux said:
sam is the standard V10 UNIX text editor
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RetroComputingCollector said:
What does V10 UNIX have to do with FreeBSD? Other than the fact that V8, V9, and V10 are derived from some ancient release of BSD
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editors/sam is in FreeBSD ports, so that's the connection to FreeBSD.
 
RetroComputingCollector said:
Modern interfaces are optimized for keyboards based on the PS/2 layout from 1987. Just because it's old doesn't make it obsolete. It's still useable on a modern keyboard.
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Hardly. Based on what I've described above. If that's what you like to use.
RetroComputingCollector said:
I use twm (from the 80s) when I need X, which released in the 80s.
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mcwm, ctwm, cwm are more modern and lightweight. ctwm is default on NetBSD, and cwm is default on OpenBSD. mcwm is modern and based on libxcb. cwm and mcwm are also keyboard oriented. twm is good enough for a basic minimal WM though.
 
sidetone said:
Hardly. Based on what I've described above. If that's what you like to use.

mcwm, ctwm, cwm are more modern and lightweight. ctwm is default on NetBSD, and cwm is default on OpenBSD. mcwm is modern and based on libxcb. cwm and mcwm are also keyboard oriented. twm is good enough for a basic minimal WM though.
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I'm the person who has a garage that has been converted into a Vintage Computer Museum!
 
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