[juneau-lug] Re: Editors
- From: Tom McBrien <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 08:19:46 -0900
I love to just fire up OpenOffice 2.0 to do my text editing. Saves very
nicely as plain text. And now that harddrives have 100's of GB, why not
install emacs with all the beeps and whistles
Those are jokes... haha... I know I'm not funny, but it's something I'm
working on.
I'm actually with the nedit/vi crew.
Now the real question of the day, who's gotten IE 7.0 beta to run on
Linux?
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:07 -0900, Matt Heavner wrote:
> I think you have to know some vi. But if you have to edit alot, you
> should learn emacs. I use emacs for "real editing." My uses include
> LaTeX (manuscripts, presentations, and posters; physics homework--I'm
> sure there is a vi way for adding macros (maybe you use m4 in combo
> with vi?), but I like having the entire greek alphabet at two key
> strokes away) perl and python code (the modes within emacs are great);
> matlab and idl modes; wiki mode, etc.. etc.. And in my experience,
> the emacs calc-mode is amazingly, insanely great--it is hands down the
> best calculator I've ever used. RPN, symbolic manipulation, yanking
> and pasting from LaTeX buffers, column and matrix math, and that is
> really just the beginning.
>
> I use vi almost daily as well, for a quick config file edit or
> something similar.
>
> So I'd say some time on vi, and more time on emacs...
>
> Matt
>
> On 1/31/06, deadcats <deadcats@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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 hade=
> s.
> > ;)
> > -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 i=
> s
> > > >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 midnigh=
> t
> > > >>>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 pant=
> s
> > > >>>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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> | Matt Heavner, Assistant Professor of Physics
> | University of Alaska Southeast
> | 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99801
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