Ultimus:
Notepad++ is good but experts recommend Emacs. I use notepad anyway because it has a plain but efficient user interface.

Efficient??
Please can you define what you mean by efficient

Codenister:

Efficient?? Please can you define what you mean by efficient

It has and does everything I want.

dhtml18:
I believe some people do not seem to understand the difference between IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and TextEditor.
When i mentioned Android studio, notice i cancelled it - i was just being a troll for doing that.

But seriously, I believe visual studio, android studio and the likes fall under IDE rather than text editor (although they can be used as text editors).

I believe some of you guys should look at - http://java.about.com/od/gettingstarted/a/ideversuseditor.htm (to distinguish between an IDE and a Text Editor)

Some text editors blur that line aka emacs, vscode, vim etc.

KazukiIto:


Some text editors blur that line aka emacs, vscode, vim etc.

True, those are special kinds of text editors. Like some people regard notepad++ as an IDE, well, there is a way to configure your notepad++ that actually makes it behave like an IDE rather than just-an-advanced-notepad.

So yes, you are right. But something like Microsoft Visual Studio (any version), or Android Studio are purely IDEs, and not text editors at all, sam sam.

Microsoft word all the way!! /

The poster above me deserves 36 strokes of my e-cane.

dhtml18:

True, those are special kinds of text editors. Like some people regard notepad++ as an IDE, well, there is a way to configure your notepad++ that actually makes it behave like an IDE rather than just-an-advanced-notepad.

So yes, you are right. But something like Microsoft Visual Studio (any version), or Android Studio are purely IDEs, and not text editors at all, sam sam.

visual studio has a built in text editor

Darangi007:

visual studio has a built in text editor

So that makes it a text editor right?

Dreamweaver has a built-in text editor - so it is a text-editor
Microsoft Frontpage has a built-in text editor
Android studio has a built-in text editor
NAIRALAND has a built in text editor

So all the above are TEXT EDITORS then.

dhtml18:

So that makes it a text editor right?

Dreamweaver has a built-in text editor - so it is a text-editor
Microsoft Frontpage has a built-in text editor
Android studio has a built-in text editor
NAIRALAND has a built in text editor

So all the above are TEXT EDITORS then.

lol...okay if u say

I use both Visual Studio Code and Sublime Text

Agreed!

dhtml18:

True, those are special kinds of text editors. Like some people regard notepad++ as an IDE, well, there is a way to configure your notepad++ that actually makes it behave like an IDE rather than just-an-advanced-notepad.

So yes, you are right. But something like Microsoft Visual Studio (any version), or Android Studio are purely IDEs, and not text editors at all, sam sam.

I use gedit along with geany.

Bracket.

I havnt used much but I like the notepad++

Sublime Text.
But thanks to Shadrach, i use Sublime and Brackets interchangeably.

So long I am a windows user, I prefer:

1) Sublime text...

2) Notepad++....

sublime text, notepad++

Vim, blue fish and gedit...

dhtml18:
Aptana studio (Abi no be text editor)?

hahaha, that aptana wey heavy pass 7 editors join together

KazukiIto:
What's Aptana Mr Troll?

ill just agree ure not a php developer

sleepingdemon:

hahaha, that aptana wey heavy pass 7 editors join together

Ah well, aptana is more of an IDE than a text editor - I only use it sparingly (in situations that notepad++ cannot handle)

To be fair, here is a list of my text editors (in descending orders of usage):
- Notepad++ (i use this most because it loads ultra-fast)
- Sublime (i like it, but i am too gaddamn addicted to notepad++)
- Apatana studio (it would have been my best but it chops system resources more than google chrome)
- Dreamweaver (i only use it to write some small html stuffs)
- phpdesigner (http://www.mpsoftware.dk/phpdesigner.php) - good for quickly previewing small bits of php code - the way dreamweaver previews html (it is somewhat slow to load)
- komoedit - if you have a project with so many folders and files, well, this is easier to handle the work compared to notepad++ (but it is slow in loading)

Just my opinion mind you

sleepingdemon:
ill just agree ure not a php developer

What's php?

KazukiIto:


What's php?

Php is a type of fruit, sweet like sugar, yellow like Fanta

On Linux nano does the job. vim is great too.
on Windows Sublime text 2

Codenister:
Php is a type of fruit, sweet like sugar, yellow like Fanta

No wonder everyone is crazy about it!

Sublime Text for its super lightness on my ram and Github's Atom.

Atom and visual studio code

vim

1. Sublime text
2. Atom

Text editors that can do almost everything you need, from github to whatever there's a plugin for it. These text editors are so powerful that you might even mistake them for those suites like aptana studio, adobe, intellij idea, netbeans, visual studio & co.

1. Sublime 2. Webstorm 3. Notepad++

In this order of priority.


Aptana, Atom -> too slow.

KazukiIto:
My best editor is definitely Emacs. One of the most powerful editor out there...

A well configured Emacs is actually the best IDE (I mean IDE not editor). The best thing is you can use it for any programming language without having to change your IDE or workflow.

If you love to have the best IDE and you love Emacs then give your Emacs super powers by installing spacemacs (http://spacemacs.org). Remember to enable your preferred layers in ~/.spaceman's and thank me later.

foldl:


A well configured Emacs is actually the best IDE (I mean IDE not editor). The best thing is you can use it for any programming language without having to change your IDE or workflow.

If you love to have the best IDE and you love Emacs then give your Emacs super powers by installing spacemacs (http://spacemacs.org). Remember to enable your preferred layers in ~/.spaceman's and thank me later.

Thank you. But I belong to the Cult of Vi now. Actually I use Vim. Not as sophisticated as Emacs, but I'm faster with it.