What's your favorite Linux text editor?

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Mine is mcedit. I've never felt comfortable with vi or Emacs.

vim foreva.

Vim hands down. I liked the original vi before it but when I'm writing code or editing code there is nothing better than vim for me same familiar vi feel but with lots more power, syntax highlighting, auto-indent and a full blown hex editor for the rare time i actually want to diddle around with a binary.

vim is just one of those tools that I use every single day multiple times a day not having vim on a system is like not having oxygen.

another neat tool, although I dont like recent incarnations of it as much is the w3c amaya. which makes a great HTML editor. don't get me wrong I like using vi for HTML as much as the next guy. but when you have really ugly machine generated HTML amaya can rock. because you can not only edit the HTML in a WYSIWYG mode. but you can open up the source view and click on the rendered part and go directly to the source line inthe source view..

and then when you finish editing the source view it updates the rendered view. and places a mark on the rendered view showing what part of the rendering the current source line is part of.

The only other tool I use more often is the shell and custom one off Perl scripts for data processing and text manipulation.

Give me nano any day - in-text (regular expressions if compiled in) search and replace, syntax highlighting (think it's still beta though)... plus its close to Pico which I was brought up on.

joe! It has syntax-hilighting, regexen and utf-8 support and is IMHO user-friendlier than vi(m).

Emacs, nedit, and pico.

Emacs for lisp, nedit for python, and pico for quick editing of config files if X isn't running.

IMO, Vim is by far the best.

vim... but I use "sed" quite often.

Can any Vim experts here tell me how to set the width of word wrap?

:set textwidth=60

Is that what would suit?

:set wrap?

tells me that I have "wrap" set "on", by default. If you try the above, and it says "nowrap", I guess you'll also want:

:set wrap

I think I have tried that before but it didnt work.

Let me give it another go. You can do it with Cream which is a Vim frontend, so Im guessing its doing some funky stuff in the background.

But Cream is windows only.

I can't get it to work. I forgot to mention im a complete beginner on Vim.

Can you explain the exact steps?

from start up:

I followed the above with...

LOL, I just realised my error, I was testing with lines without spaces. I had it in my head that it would just cut the line off at the specified width, no it needs a whitespace!

Thanks for your help.

I just downloaded Macvim for OS X

How do I get syntax highlighting for HTML?

Scrap that. I found out.

Now heres one. I want to disable autoindent, but when I press Return I do not want cursor to go all the way back to the start of the line. I want it to maintain the indent from the previous line.

I used :

autocmd BufEnter *.html setlocal indentexpr=
autocmd BufEnter *.htm setlocal indentexpr=

To get rid of autoindent completely. But as I said I dont want it to go to beginning of line.