Favourite Linux Text Editor?

[radhak]

Sorry. I read your post and got the impression gvim was for Windows. I will check it out too.

Actually, now you have an even better version called 'cream'. It's just a wrapper around vim; check here :
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20...114/Cream.html

It turns off the 'modal' property by default, which generally is the most irritating for windows users. Cream completely masks the 'geek' aspects of vim and yet has all it's power; real fun to use;

The quote function doesn't quote code, but I am still enough of a geek to laugh at the 'single command'.

no, that's all the command is, nothing missing, just a single line of instruction that works on the whole file; as close to coding as you'd get within an editor !

[jspelbring]

Editor wars!

Well, I've used a lot of editors over the years. My favorite is XEmacs. Lotse of flavors, lots of funtcionality. It does pay to learn VI though - every **ix system will have a version of it. Besides, it's great for editing the Makefiles to build Emacs from source. MicreEmacs is nice too - the speed/short loading of VI with the expandability/keys of Emacs.

"Daddy, why are we hiding from the police?"

"Because we use Emacs son, and they use VI."

[HarmsWay]

I used nedit when I was running Scientific Linux and really liked it. It's not commonly available though so when it's not I use emacs and complain.

Bob

[crokett]

I know this is an old thread but until today gedit would do what I wanted. Then I got a file in that confused gedit. It turns out it didntt like the carriage returns. I installed gvim and will try that for a while.

[smorris]

I vote for vi.

Daddy, why are the police chasing us...well son, we use vi and they use emacs.

Of course if you want the manly mans editor, compile up a copy of TECO. I used to write RSX-11M macro and BLISS code using that editor, I understood how you could end up in a bell tower with a rifle from that.

[gerti]

%s/\(\w\+\)\s\+.*/,\1 = D.\1/

I'm not sure which other editor will do it with as much ease.

Sure looks easy to me! Just as easy as Japanese!

[radhak]

Sure looks easy to me! Just as easy as Japanese!

I agree - it's not easy to understand that line, its a slightly advanced command. But if you start with the simpler commands of gvim, you'd find yourself moving easily towards such commands.

Sorta like learning to rip cut on the TS, and then smoothly getting to bevel rip .

If you are interested, that command says find the first complete word, and replace the whole line with a comma, then that word followed by ' = D.' followed by that same word again. The '1' refers to the first word thus found (allowing for more than one).

[gerti]

Well, I do understand the regular expression, and with the editor I use (TextMate) I would probably do a search and replace using the same regular expression.

[Len]

Guess I'm the odd fellow out. I've been using "Komodo Edit" on Linux and Windows for some time, and been happy with it. And it's free.

If you need full blown word processing, spreadsheet, etc., there's always "Open Office" from Sun.

Len

[pierhogunn]

VI is what I used in College, VI is what I used in my days as a unix admin. VI is what I long for MS to figure out a way to make work in word.

and another thing... learn the cli, love the cli, live the cli

the cli will once again rule the world