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This way of PickingATextEditor involves simply using the tool that was supplied with your operating system.

This is a simple strategy, best suited for those who must change jobs/systems often and want to be assured of learning a tool that will always be there. Windows programmers will learn to use Notepad (not like that's very hard) or their preferred IDE text editor, such as Microsoft VisualStudio or Eclipse.

Vax programmers use EDT or TPU or (egak) TECO.[Fav]

z/OS programmers use ISPF.

This less of an issue than it used to be, because the ubiquity of open-source software means that you can usually find (or install) a number of freeware editors on any system you run across, assuming you are suitably authorized.

At one time, VI was the only editor that was guaranteed to be available on every Unix system, so every unix user (including hard core Emacs fanatics) had to know at least a few commands in VI. These days, many Linux and BSDs systems will also have either JOE, Pico, or Nano, and most will have GnuEmacs or XEmacs. That said, VI is still generally the only ubiquitous editor if you include commercial Unix systems. Advantages:

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