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

[James Freer]

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