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

[MJ Ray]

samwise <samwise at bagshot-row.org> wrote:
> Without getting into a flame war between vi and emacs ... what editor
> do you prefer for light-weight editing? [...]

Depends how light-weight.  I use jed (Emacs keybindings, console,
utf-8 clean and generally good at handling silly things) for
general-purpose editing - this email is written in it.

On remote machines, particularly with screwed terminal settings, I use
good ol' ed.

> So, anyone got any other favourites worth trying?  Does anyone know of
> a native Linux GUI app that can compete with UltraEdit et al?

GUI editing is generally done in either Emacs or wily here.  wily is
very very good for refactoring or hypertext editing, with its chording
mouse, right-click links and remote control.  Emacs has the menus and
its merge applications are lovely.  Both are running most of the day.

Hope that helps,
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