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.