What text editor is the best in your oppinon?

[that_punk_guy]

FrexxEd is closest to my heart. :-)

I never programmed much with it but I do remember it was brilliant for editing large AmigaGuides.

[Merc]

I always used a nice little editor called "Edt"...  It's lightweight, does all the normal stuff, and seemed to be a proper Amiga program that used all standard requesters, key shortcuts, etc., which I remember having a hard time finding.

GoldEd was pretty good too, but I found it too slow loading ISTR.  EdWord was a close second but I remember not liking something about the way you had to copy & paste text..  I'm very picky about editors I guess... makes me wonder how I can stand to use vi all the time at work  :-D

[Waccoon]

It's amazing how many text editors suck.  My favorite is EditPlus2, but it's only available for Windows.

Don't be fooled by its simplicity.  It absolutely rocks (or it would, if it could parse PHP Here Documents syntax.  That's about the only feature request I have for it!)

[Dietmar]

GoldEd was pretty good too, but I found it too slowloading ISTR

If you don't have requirements beyond normal editing (but want folding, undo, macro recording and high configurability), try microgolded. It starts in half a second on my UAE setup and instantly on MorphOS.

GoldED, which starts in a second, can be made to start instantly with the "Editor Resident?" menu: it will remain loaded/windowless after closing the last text. If you type "golded:ed ", the resident editor will become active again instantly. You can also activate it with the hotkey. It can be pre-loaded (without window) in s:user-startup. Another way to reduce startup time is to activate the image cache.

Btw, what does ISTR mean (probably not International Society for Third-Sector Research)?

[TheMagicM]

Another vote for CygnusEd.

[Karlos]

Isn't anybody going to vote for SYS:C/edit?

Shame on you all :lol:

(actually it is pretty nifty once you figure out how to write macros for it....)

[Brian]

CygnusEd all the way... apart from it not handling graphiccard modes all that well in some versions and the fact that it can "only" take 4000 letters a line (should be enough for most though) it's the best thing out there. I've even edited binary files with it.

[Dietmar]

I heard the author of GoldEd was prosecuted once upon a time because an earlier version formatted your RDB if it detected you were using a pirate keyfile.

I heard the author of GoldED once went back through time after he found out that his custom rendering code was faster than the speed of light. Kids, this is an important message from Dietmar: Don't drink Alcohol A note for software pirates: it's perferctly safe to steal GoldED, any version. No malicious code contained. But you know in your big, good hearts that stealing software is bad, don't you?

[Dan]

Janoeditor or if I am at an unix pico/nano.
Remmeber that beta version of janoeditor where you could make it the WB-background?8-)

[Nestor]

AZ text editor works for me