On Monday 15 October 2001 1:41 pm, oms101@freeuk.com wrote:
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By the way, if you like pico, try jpico from the joe package. nano is also another good replacement for it.
Like I said choice is good. I just loaded nano and will give it a go. I had joe on my system but I didn't realise it had the choice of a pico clone interface. So now I have a choice of 3 command line editors to choose from. Do hope I don't get too confused, now what was I saying about choice being good? :-0 Like I said you can't please everybody. :-)
If you want an easy to use GUI X based text editor you may want to try nedit and its client server friend nc. This editor is as intuative as pico/notepad but with a power that few text editors have including tags support syntax highlighting, macro language regular expresions and if you fiddle with the Xdefaults is very customisable (I added wheel mouse support)
Nedit is a very fine X based text editor, although it will never match emacs or vi for fanatical support it is still widly respected and competes with joe for the 3rd most popular text editor on unix.
This I really like thanks for the tip.
Regards
Owen
PS I would like to suggest we get adam or another vi fan and an emacs fan such as Mark here to run a debate at an alug meeting over which is better Vi or emacs.
Who will mop up the blood then? :-) Didn't someone once say that you should never discuss politics, religion or the merits of unix editors?
Cheers, BJ