I was a great fan of VI text editor for a long long time. I started using VI from 1995 in Linux and Solaris systems. Later in Windows, I started using GVIM, which was also not bad. Those who use VI, I do not have to explain the love we have around the pattern searches. I used to love working with fast pattern search and replaces in VI. Emacs was ok, but I never could love it so much within the few attempts I have tried it.
Life moved on, in the enterprise world, I mostly worked in Windows systems, because most my clients are comfortable about it. Besides VI/VIM/GVIM, I still missed the unix commands, and discovered and used cygwin in Windows for my day to day works.
It was great, but faced several pattern search and replace issues, and later around 2010, I started using Textpad because it is a shareware. But still working with XML, directory and column search and replace was always an issue.
Finally recently through one my colleague Ben, I discovered Sublime text, and its a free tool. It is simply awesome with directory search, XML and column searches. I simply love it....
Life moved on, in the enterprise world, I mostly worked in Windows systems, because most my clients are comfortable about it. Besides VI/VIM/GVIM, I still missed the unix commands, and discovered and used cygwin in Windows for my day to day works.
It was great, but faced several pattern search and replace issues, and later around 2010, I started using Textpad because it is a shareware. But still working with XML, directory and column search and replace was always an issue.
Finally recently through one my colleague Ben, I discovered Sublime text, and its a free tool. It is simply awesome with directory search, XML and column searches. I simply love it....
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