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* 1986 BlackBeard -- on MsDos

* 1986 BlackBeard and later CaptainBlackBeard -- on MsDos

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* 1988 Jove -- on MsDos

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* 2012 onwards -- NotePadPlusPlus, VIM, and VSCodium.

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My primary TextEditor is VIM. It is powerful, fast, and runs on anything. I have it installed on all of my Windows and Linux machines. At work, it is the very first tool I port to any platform. Although I've used VIM for years, I'm quite poor at plain vi. No visual marking with the 'V' key? How crude!

Ron Perrella is the webmaster for this site.

I thoroughly enjoy learning new TextEditors and I'm anything but a bigot -- I've used both VI and Emacs as well as a slew of other text editors. I believe in using the right editor for the job and that no one size fits all.

My email is lastname (lowercase) at that yahoo place.

Historically, I started on the following text editors in chronological order...

1982 EDLIN -- on Zenith Z-DOS
1983 NevadaEdit -- on CP/M (on my Zenith Z100 )
1984 UtahEdit -- on MsDos
1984 QEDIT -- aka TSE
1984 see -- came with DeSmet C88 on MsDos
1984 WordStar -- on MsDos
1984 TurboPascal -- on MS/DOS
1985 AmigaEd -- on AmigaDos? (on my Amiga 500 at my AlmaMater? [ http://www.rosehulman.edu RoseHulmanInstituteOfTechnology ] )
1986 MG -- on AmigaDos? (specifically MG2a) which I installed when it was MicroGnuEmacs and not MG.
1986 WordPerfect -- on AmigaDos?
1986 EDT -- on VAX/VMS
1986 TPU TpuEditor -- on VAX/VMS
1986 TheSemwareEditor -- on MSDOS
1986 BlackBeard and later CaptainBlackBeard -- on MsDos
1987 XyWrite -- on MsDos
1988 VI -- Sun 3/60 UNIX
1988 Jove -- on MsDos
1990 GnuEmacs -- on AIX, Ultrix, and SunOS? (ah, my first job!)
1990 TPU -- on VAX/VMS (tpu was always sweet)
1992 IBM E3 -- on OS/2 and AIX (internal use only but then again, I was working at IBM in Boca Raton, FL)
1993 IBM XEDIT -- on VM/CMS (on a IBM mainframe.)
1993 SlickEdit -- on OS/2 and MsDos (with the original RexxLanguage)
1994 VisualSlickEdit for Windows V1.0 -- on Windows (with the then-new CLikeMacroLanguage?)
1994 MultiEdit V8.0j
1995 VIM -- on HP/UX, then AIX, then Solaris, then Linux
1996 XEmacs -- on AIX, Linux, Windows (occasional use.)
2000 VEDIT -- on MsDos (nostalgia)
2005 TextPad -- thanks to my colleagues at work for turning me on to this.
2005 PSPad -- on Windows/XP
2006 Boxer -- thanks to the folks at Boxer for allowing me a licensed copy.
2012 onwards -- NotePadPlusPlus, VIM, and VSCodium.

I know that at some point, I was using freemacs as well but I can't place it in history!

So, what am I using today?

I also use the NotePadPlusPlus TextEditor as a replacement for Windows' NotePad which just stinks ( I used to use CrimsonEditor but it is dead. then PSPad as well )

I dabble with other text editors when I'm working but those two do most of the heavy lifting.

I have written GnuEmacs Lisp macros as well as SlickEdit macros. Unfortunately, at $300+ a pop, SlickEdit is out of my price range. That's when GnuEmacs or XEmacs starts to look really good. I haven't (in 2006) started using a MacroLanguage with VIM.