Being relatively new to the shell, I prefer the enchanced vim that SuSE offers--and Gawd forgive the person mentioning Edlin...may it rot in hades. ;) -dc On 1/31/06, Stephen E. Bodnar <sbodnar@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > If I'm out in the shell somewhere, I always use vi. Except that > linux distributions will often substitute an enhanced version of vi. > > But I agree with Jacob. Nedit is my favorite in a GUI. > > Stephen > > >I like nano. It was a free as in speech rewrite of pico. But Larry is > >probably right. Vi is almost a standard on *nix machines. That being > >said my favorite GUI text editor is nedit. > > > >Talley family wrote: > > > >>But if you are bouncing around on different Linux/Unix hosts, > >>seems to me that vi or ed are the only things you can count > >>on finding.... > >> > >>For that reason I think a student should learn vi. > >> > >>Eat it, its good for you. > >> > >>Larry > >> > >> > >> > >>>-----Original Message----- > >>>From: juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>>[mailto:juneau-lug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Miller > >>>Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:10 PM > >>>To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > >>>Subject: [juneau-lug] Re: Editors > >>> > >>> > >>>Eric M. Niewoehner wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>I am about to teach a section on editors and I was curious > >>>> > >>>> > >>>as to which > >>> > >>> > >>>>text editor you all preferred. While I am on my local > >>>> > >>>> > >>>workstation, I > >>> > >>> > >>>>always use the GUI, but shell sessions require a plain-text > >>>> > >>>> > >>>editor. The > >>> > >>> > >>>>author of the text I am using is keen on vi. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>If I'm in KDE I usually use Kate. If at the CLI, I like the midnight > >>>commander editor (if mc is installed). Otherwise I flip/flop > >>>between vi > >>>and pico. Not overly fluent in vi, and not overly impressed > >>>with pico. > >>> > >>>Way back in the DOS days I used to use an editor called TED (Tiny > >>>EDitor) which was a PC Mag. utility. Small, fast, and beat the pants > >>>off edlin. The mc editor is similar. Best thing since sliced beer. > >>>Um, bottled bread. Er, whatever. > >>> > >>>If I'm doing more than just a quick edit of a .conf file the > >>>color and > >>>nesting in Kate is quite handy. Don't do much scripting or > >>>programming > >>>so my needs are pretty humble... > >>> > >>>...Kevin > >>>-- > >>>Kevin Miller > >>>http://www.alaska.net/~atftb > >>>Juneau, Alaska > > >>Registered Linux User No: 307357 > > ------------------------------------ > This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > the word unsubscribe in the subject header. > ------------------------------------ This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject header.