samwise wrote:
I thought it'd make an interesting thread. So, suggestions for favourite editors.
Without getting into a flame war between vi and emacs ... what editor do you prefer for light-weight editing? i.e. not a full IDE like eclipse or KDevelop, but just for the little jobs of editing small text files.
I use nano on my very old gentoo box, which is a nice console base
Peter - Thanks for suggesting this thread... [there is a site that lists the 750 available! for anyone wanting to explore.
I'd say gedit/kedit, Scite and Kate i quite liked - mainly because they offer tabbed windows which is ideal. vi and emacs get a NO for my tastes - although Cream offers a modern vi.
I was pleased to discover Joe and e3 with Linux as they have the Wordstar commands. Now - i'm showing my age! What was the great attraction of wordstar - the commands and typing keys were designed around the three central rows of the keyboard (the control key then was where the caps lock now is on the standard keyboard). For typists wordstar offered the best layout for touch typing and many writers still use it... on old machines i gather. So as an old doddera i've enjoyed using Joe on the terminal and Scite for several windows.
When editing being able to have several windows open is a great advantage.
james