Text editors

[Dale A. Raby]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:10:29AM +0000, Andy Green wrote:

I used to (and still do} like Pico, which is installed with the Pine 
mail client.  In Fedora C1, a seemingly identical editor is invoked by 
typing in "nano".  It is especially kind to newbies as it has a menu at 
the bottom of the screen that is simple to use.  I suppose it will never 
be as popular as Emacs or Vi, but it does everything I need it to do.  
Gedit works well withing a GUI, and is also kind to newbies.  Which 
editor to use is a subject for a book!

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> On Sunday 07 March 2004 07:30, Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell wrote:
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> > All editors are personal preference.
> 
> This is true... the price for teaching your fingers is high so people tend to 
> stick with what they know.
> 
> You really need two editors, one for 'textmode tight spots' in a console or 
> over ssh, and one for 'real editing' in a GUI.  For what its worth I also use 
> vi when I am editing in a textmode console, it has more features than I know 
> how to use, but all I really need from it is the core editing actions.   I 
> favour kwrite / kate in X, which I find very clean and obvious.  KDE has this 
> sort of kwrite editing component scheme, so the same editor turns up in 
> multiple KDE apps.
> 
> ssh, scp and a lightweight editor like vi is not to be sniffed at in terms of 
> being able to get work done remotely and securely on low bandwidth.
> 
> - -Andy
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