Star LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 7th Mar 2006 14:56 UTC, submitted by jeremy
Linux The results of the LinuxQuestions member's choice awards are in. The results: Ubuntu is the best distribution, OpenOffice.org the best office suite, GAIM the best instant messenger, KDE the best desktop environment (Run! Run! Duck! Duck!), Konqueror the best filemanager, etc. Do with the results as you please.
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Ah, vi
by JustThinkIt on Tue 7th Mar 2006 16:36 UTC
JustThinkIt
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2005-09-04

Kind of hilarious to see vi as the most popular text editor. That would be liking awarding "copy con filename" as the most popular DOS editor.

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RE: Ah, vi
by mcrumley on Tue 7th Mar 2006 17:03 in reply to "Ah, vi"
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2005-06-29

vi is a very powerful editor, if not the easiest to learn or use. There is no comparison to 'copy con filename'. Personally, I like jEdit, but I sometimes use vim when working in a console.

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RE[2]: Ah, vi
by Celerate on Tue 7th Mar 2006 20:15 in reply to "RE: Ah, vi"
Celerate Member since:
2005-06-29

"if not the easiest to learn or use"

Hehehe, another one of these threads.

Obviously you haven't tried Pico or Nano, those are by far the easiest and most user intuitive command line editors I've seen. They don't have many features, but they are both fully qualified text editors. IMO Nano should be included with every distribution, when you tell a complete newbie to edit a configuration file the last thing they need is to have to learn the editor as well, that wouldn't be necessary with Nano.

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RE: Ah, vi
by Emil on Tue 7th Mar 2006 19:12 in reply to "Ah, vi"
Emil Member since:
2005-06-29

In other words, you know nothing about Vi. I'm using it for development for 4 years now. Powerful, fast, with a lot of extensions.

Sure, it has not mr. Clippy (OK, there's VIgor;) or a cute, little yellow dog, but if you're an UNIX user, you find it a advantage. ;-)

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