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Article in InfoWorld about the rise of the Texteditor against the IDE: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/19/37FEcodeedit_1.html?development
Word Processors: One Writer's Retreat (Slashdot): http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/20/1812204&tid=185&tid=189&tid=9
USENET newsgroup (discussion forum) for text editors, lots of focus on VIM: [comp.editors]
There is a perfect editor http://www.stratigery.com/perfect.editor.html
Eric S. Raymond's "Tale of 5 editors" - http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch13s02.html
BramMoolenaar's "Seven habits of effective text editing" ([html] and [plain text])
"How Do People Really Use Text Editors?"
article by John Whiteside, Norman Archer, Dennis Wixon, and Michael Good published 1982 http://www.recordare.com/good/oa82.html