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Only seven votes needed to topple Notepad2 from no. 8!
TextMate is no. 1 by quite a margin which doesn't surprise me as Mac geeks seem to love it. I never quite got it. I'm off to vote for BBEdit.
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Vi is great for what is was meant for: It provides a full-screen, full-featured editor when all you have is an ASCII terminal and/or a slow connection. Yes, these things still exists. I write embedded systems. Sometimes the only communication I have is a serial connection at 9600 baud and a TTY.kengrubb wrote:Perusing the list, it's apparent to me that a bunch of lunatics escaped the asylum to vote VI, the Virtually Impossible editor, into the #6 position ahead of TextPad. The Unix/Linux Nazis here at work have tried to push VI with weak Jedi mind tricks. Hasn't worked thus far. Samba drive mapped to the Unix files, and it's just another Network Drive to me. TextPad does a superb job recognizing and editing Unix format files. Just open, edit and save. Learn VI? Yeah, right, I've got 6 months of my life to waste learning the world's most philistine editor.