Yes, there are a lot more editors to choose from, but let's just say you have a favorite :biggrin:
Which one is yours? And if you really want to, you can say why.

"ed is the standard text editor."

I use vim, and find that it works better for me, but I wouldn't assert that it is "better" in the absolute sense. One thing I like about it is that it's very fast to start and quit, objectively more so than Emacs IIRC. Whether or not this is useful to you depends on your usage pattern.

Meh too old school for those, I want my pico options :(

teehee

I admit to some fondness for line editing, since that's what oldstyle LP muds had,
but I don't think these days I'd choose it, like, on purpose.

My vote is for vim mostly out of ignorance of emacs. I think I used emacs for a total of
about 25 seconds, just to see what it looked like, then withdrew like a monkey bitten
on the paw by a viper…shrieking, panicked, offended, and resentful.

Kind of like people who dip into the MB controversial topics forum.

Having said that, I'm not sure I'd recommend g/vi/m to a casual newbie. There
are user-friendlier editors out there that use "entry mode" as the primary interface,
with control-<char> for commands. For a "power user" or someone who intends to
become one, vi is obviously a good thing to know since it is ubiquitous, but other,
simpler jobbies suffice for the computer-stuff-isn't-really-my-life people.

-Crat
http://lpmuds.net

Oh, if the question is which would I recommend to a newbie, that's another question entirely, indeed…

I use GNU Emac for a wide range of activities from programming to doing my homework.
I use to use Vi before I learned to use Emacs, but I forgot how fairly quickly.

Pico > (Vim + Emacs). That is all. Kthxbai.

How can you think that Pico is better then both Emacs and Vim? That is horrible and ignorant!
Shame on you, Lyanic!

War of the WorldsEditors, Round I

History should show that Emacs was always the victor of the ancient holy-wars/editor-wars.
Just find any flame war on usenet; Emacs always wins, because it rocks.

HE'S…errr…I'M A HERETIC!! GET HIM…errr…ME!!!

I use JOE pretty much exclusively. On systems without JOE (shame on them) I use Pico, otherwise whatever is available.

I don't use CLI text editors. If I did, I'd just use pico/nano, because I don't like how emacs/vim's shortcuts are setup by default and the one time I'm using it isn't worth configuring it.

*grabs his pitchfork and torch and rushes off to the battlefront*

VIM is the one true editor, descended from the one true editor vi, in turn descended from the one true editor ed. There can be on other editor!

EMACS (Eight Megs And Climbing Still) is an abomination, used only by Hentacle-Monsters who enjoy pressing shift-ctrl-alt-meta-alt-shift-X to bring up the 12th level sub-menu that lets them save their document.

Oh, and the only reason Emacs won any battles is because all the Vi folk were busy doing work with their editor, rather than coding stupid tower-of-babel things in lisp. *pthbbbth*

Quixadhal, your points are as useless and ignorant as Herbert Gilliland III!
How dare you make fun of Emacs, and its customizable goodness! Aside
from the people who act dumber then you, I've never seen anyone do
something so dumb!

Who needs pitchforks, and torches when you can just do "M-x pictchfork" and "M-x torch"?

I got a copy of the EMACS Manual. I had Stallman sign the shrinkwrap.

Now I don't want to open it, so I use nano. :redface:

I'm just waiting for someone to say notepad.exe.

…Wait for it…

My personal favorite is SPFPC.
If I find myself working on a retarded system for some reason I tend to use nano if available.

VI VI VI - the editor of the beast.