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Ron Perrella is the webmaster for this site. I thoroughly enjoy learning new TextEditor''''''s 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? 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! I use NeoVIM as well, but frankly rarely use any mods. 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]].
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