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A recent survey from CodeProject reveals when asked “What is your favorite text editor?” the winner is…NOTEPAD! Are you kidding me people? Either the CodeProject community is pretty lame (I doubt that because I know there are some great resources there) or else someone on the notepad development team in Redmond (is there a Notepad development team?) was just trying to rig the results.

While looking at the list to see how my favorite editor fared (Edit+) I didn’t even see it on the list! So maybe I’m lame too. I did check out the runner-up, Notepad++ and it looks pretty cool. I know UltraEdit has been a well-respected editor for a while. I’d never consider vi or emacs as a “favorite” but I’m forced to use it when I’m ssh-ed into a Linux box and I need to modify my httpd.conf or something like that. Actually, I use nano in that instance if it’s available (thanks Ubuntu!)