In 2014 Lifehacker readers voted Notepad as the Most Popular Text Editor with 40 of the 16294 respondents specifying it as their most-loved editor.
Which is the most popular text editor available. Its especially well suited to anyone wedded to the keyboard providing powerful shortcuts and tools to leap about a document make multiple selections filter the file and quickly make edits. There are certain online-based text editors available which are built for collaborative use. Atom is a popular open-source codetext editor that works across several platforms such as Windows Mac or Linux.
Emacs is often known as the Swiss Army Knife for writers analysts and programmers. Learning Vim will make you many times more productive whether its for computer programming or creative writing. Whether that be for interview purposes team coding session or easy code sharing these collaborative text editors are great for easily getting more than one set of eyes on your code.
For our analysis we took a look at Ubuntu users to find out which editor was most popular. Vim is the text editor from coders for coders and it is the hardest one to master it. GNU Emacs is a highly extensible and customizable text editor.
Sublime Text for Windows Macs and Linux Publicly released in 2008 Sublime Text is now one of the most popular and highly-regarded text editors available. Its been around for decades since Richard Stallman and Guy Steele wrote it in 1976 and its the other major text editor to stand behind in the Holy Text Editor Grail Wars. The current version of the GNU Emacs was written in 1984 and is still actively developed.
It was originally developed in 1976 at MIT by the free software activist Richard Stallman. Most popular text editors. Its not the easiest.
Sublime Text is a great general-purpose text editor that offers plenty of power to anyone working on websites. Either ed or a compatible editor is available on all systems labeled as Unix not by default on every one. CodeShare is the first service that allows you to share your code in real time.