[ALUG] Discuss: Favourite Text / Programmer's Editor

[Ian Thompson-Bell]

samwise wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We touched on this briefly last night after the question was asked
> about the best Linux replacement for UltraEdit, but we didn't really
> get into it as we were all getting ready to stuff ourselves with Hoi
> Sin sauce.
>
> 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 based
> editor that is more user friendly than vi/emacs (tho, naturally, less
> feature rich).  I generally rely on vi for console-based editing on
> other machines.
>
> As for the GUI-based ones, I tried gVim but just found it too much
> hard work. I have run Crimson Editor under WINE for a while because it
> has lots more features than Kate or KWrite.  I'll accept that Crimson
> Editor is somewhat stagnant (the replacement Emerald Editor appears to
> be stuck in development hell) and Notepad++ under WINE might be a
> better choice, but I haven't taken the time to play with it properly.
>
> So, anyone got any other favourites worth trying?  Does anyone know of
> a native Linux GUI app that can compete with UltraEdit et al?
>
> Peter.

Geany

Ian