[Unixfy]

"What is the best Texteditor and why is it vim" would be the correct formulation of the question.

Who said it was Vim?
The correct correct formulation is:
"Why is the best text editor, and why is it Nano?"

[TrK]

seriously nano/vim and the best editor? i am sorry but i don't think it is best editor.

[Hagmui]

nano is easier to learn, the learning curve of vim is quiet steep, but once you get t he hold of it you are faster and can do more stuff with it. Navigating around gets very easy and very fast once you get to know he keyboard shortcuts. Also the ability to record and repeat certain actions is just a joy.

[RickB]

Sublime Text 3

On Linux servers I mostly use either VIM or Nano.

[Unixfy]

nano is easier to learn, the learning curve of vim is quiet steep, but once you get t he hold of it you are faster and can do more stuff with it. Navigating around gets very easy and very fast once you get to know he keyboard shortcuts. Also the ability to record and repeat certain actions is just a joy.

Quite true. I like nano since I'm just too lazy to try and learn vim

[Hagmui]

nano is easier to learn, the learning curve of vim is quiet steep, but once you get t he hold of it you are faster and can do more stuff with it. Navigating around gets very easy and very fast once you get to know he keyboard shortcuts. Also the ability to record and repeat certain actions is just a joy.

Quite true. I like nano since I'm just too lazy to try and learn vim

I have used nano/pico for around 14 years because i was too lazy. Then forced myself by setting an alias from nano to vim and after a week never looked back. There are some interactive tutorials around the net that help you, give it a try.

[rh619]

notepad++ , who is saying that it is vim ??? .....................

[Hagmui]

notepad++ , who is saying that it is vim ??? .....................

The text editor gods my friend. One editor to rule them all, one editor to find them, one editor to bring them all and in the editingjoy bind them.

[thingamajick]

My personal favorite is Sublime Text 2. Period. I use it for everyday stuff such as coding and or quickly modeling text with the multiline cursor and replace with Regular Expressions.
A big plus of Sublime Text, as written before, is the Plugin Ecosystem. Especially when Sublime is used for coding, it's distraction free modes are a real blessing.

Things i tried (and why I disliked it):
* Notepad++ (sorry, I just don't like it)
* geany (savage af with file formats - always adding NL at end of text)
* eclipse (too slow and bloated)
* gedit (missing plugins)
* notepad (eww windows)
* wordpad (brrrrr)
* nano (the usability sucks)

Things i use at Linux console:
* vim (fast and convenient)

For anybody willing to learn and unleash the power of vim, i recommend the command "vimtutor". It's an interactive tutorial which explains functions and requires them to be used while reading the explanations file. All in all a great concept.

[kubanek_kuba]

Notepad++ for me.
Why?
- Tab interface (multi files in one window)
- Syntax highlighting (good for files with other extension than .txt)
- Simple and clean interface
- Zoom out and zoom in