Text Editor

Introduction

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A good programmer needs a good text editor. There are many text editors. Some run command-line while other runs in GUI mode. Both have their own advantages and disadvanages.

For your own interests, see also the text editor holy war 1, 2, 3, 4 in Hackles.

GUI Text Editors

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• EditPlus : not free!
• Crimson Editor
• AEdiX Suite : bundled with a hex editor; support regular expression search/replace
• ConTEXT : various color syntax highlighter; lack of regular expression support
• Notepad++ : written in C without using MFC (such an avoid-Microsoft programmer)
• jEdit : requires JRE; support regular expression search/replace

Command-line Text Editors

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• vi
• Vim : vi improved
• GNU Emacs - see also the Church of Emacs
• Pico
• Nano : enhanced pico with regular expression search/replace and color syntax highlight

Tutorials

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• vi command reference : or search for vi-ref.pdf or viref.pdf at Google
• http://www.xerox-techsupport.com/ips/tips/vieditor.pdf
• http://helpdesk.cs.tamu.edu/docs/vicommands