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Category: Best Open Source Text Editor

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-the-carnage-begin dept.

Nobody loves a good old fashioned vi/emacs war more than me, so we decided to create a category in the Slashdot 2000 Beanies just as an excuse to have a flamewar! Nominate your favorite text editor, and let the good times roll.

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  1. Pico! by Kurt+Gray · · Score: 3

    Pico is:

    - small
    - simple
    - useful
    - fast
    - included. If you've got pine, you've got pico.

  2. I have to at least suggest TECO by dsplat · · Score: 3
    Yes, TECO. To quote Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal:

    Some of the concepts in these Xerox editors have been incorporated into editors running on more reasonably named operating systems-- EMACS and VI being two. The problem with these editors is that Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in Women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor-- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. TECO, to be precise.

    It has been observed that a TECO command sequence more closely resembles transmission line noise than readable text[4]. One of the more entertaining games to play with TECO is to type your name in as a command line and try to guess what it does. Just about any possible typing error while talking with TECO will probably destroy your program, or even worse-- introduce subtle and mysterious bugs in a once working subroutine.
    --
    The net will not be what we demand, but what we make it. Build it well.