What's Your Favorite Text Editor? (Besides TextEdit)

[pablobh]

I use Espresso 2

 

[Joonikko]

I've been using iA Writer for quite a while
Notational Velocity + iA Writer + Dropbox = perfect note taking experience with syncing and reduntant backup.
I know its just a text editor with no fancy features, but thats only what I need and want, since I find myself always tweaking every setting and because iA Writer doesn't have any settings, I can actually get projects and other schoolwork done.

Ps. You have to change Notation settings to save the notes as plain text files and set note directory into a folder inside Dropbox. This makes the workflow between computers seamless.

http://www.iawriter.com
http://notational.net

 

[CBorg]

"kate", the standard text editor of the K Desktop Environment. On OSX its available as a MacPort. Love the block selection mode. And in combination with the terminal emulator "konsole" which can be docked into it, you get a great programming environment.

http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=library&substr=kate

 

[smolderas]

of course "vim"

 

[mntbighker]

I have been a Text Wrangler guy for quite a while, and vi lately in a Linux terminal. But with avalanche here about Sublime I guess I will be looking at that carefully.

 

[unimatrix725]

BBedit 10.x all the way!

 

[DBP]

Old habits die hard. vi/vim is still my go-to editor, having learnt it 25+ years ago. My fingers know their way around with me thinking about the mechanics. Unfortunately this sometimes mean I sometimes find extra j's and k's appearing when working with other editors, but that's quickly fixed.

My vi (now vim) config has grown over the years, with lots of customisations, but I've been wondering lately about more language-aware editing tools. I might have a look at some of these, although there's a lot of inertia built into these fingers by now.
Have tried emacs multiple times, but always ended up falling back to vi-compatibility and wondering what the point of the exercise was!

 

[jonvdveen]

For my needs, I've always liked TextWrangler!

 

[miv79]

I use Espresso 2

Yay, was wondering when someone was gonna share the Espresso love!

 

[Pakalolo]

Thanks tonymacx86. I have always used TextEdit but, I think I may have converted to TextMate.