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

[Brett Parker]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:47:43AM +0000, 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 vim fairly much for everything (including composing this mail, ahh
for being able to use a sensible editor in your mail client), light or
heavy wieght, I find that using the same editor everywhere means that I
don't have to switch brain to another mode for using a different editor,
and what I want to do is fairly much always at my finger tips. (Oh, and
I mostly entirely hate IDEs because they get the hell in the way of the
code, waste memory, and give me no real advantages over being able to
throw commands at a command line in a different window to my editor).

Anyways, you might want to look at joe if you want a small lightweight
editor that has a fair number of features.

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker