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. > > ------------------------------------ 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.