[juneau-lug] Re: Editors

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
>
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