What is your text editor of choice?

vi is a good text editor. Comes bundled with any Unix or *nix clone and has tons of features. In case you are not used to basics of vi, get used to it, it's really beneficial.

My answer is that it depends on what I'm doing. If I need a small file built quick, I might just go with simply redirecting input with cat, or use Nano (or Pico). I like mcedit and vim for command line use, but Kate is my preferred editor for coding in a GUI.

I keep returning to the built-in editor of mc (Midnight commander) when working on the console. Vi or emacs have never impressed me. Vi because it's jusk plain awkward and Emacs because it's way too complex. When in a GUI-environment, i use Krusader as replacement for mc, and krusader's internal text-editor for textfiles. Or Kwrite. Or Kate. Or... I'm not religious. If the editor provides reasonable facilities, i'll use it. I like having syntax highlighting, text 'folding' and tabbed windows.

Well, seems like everyone has the traditional Linux editors covered. So, I'll toss in TextMate as my favorite editor period and yes, it's still Linux (somewhere, way down there, I promise...)

I've found kate to be pretty kewl ;) and bluefish is pretty good too when you need a little hybridization between just a text editor and an IDE.

But I still end up using pico or vim more often than not to quickly get into a file and do something quickly and get out.

You just can't beat the text based editors when you know exactly what you want, and need to get it done fast.

cli and full feature : vim
cli and lightweight : nano
gui and almost full feature : Gedit
gui and lightweight : Leafpad

I prefer nano, because can use it everywhere,because it's distributed with most linux distros and it's simple ;)

My favorite is nano.

I've settled on emacs. The more you use it, the more you can customize it. I also use it as my email client.

gedit, simple and easy to use. Great job.