[juneau-lug] Re: Editors

  • From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:12:12 -0900

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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