Linux text editors

Neil Cherry ncherry at comcast.net
Tue Sep 14 14:54:03 UTC 2004


Andrea Giuliano wrote:

First let me say that I've been using emacs since 1978 so I'm use to
using it (I don't need to think about the key bindings I just type the keys).

<humor>
> * emacs has an ugly key-binding scheme, but tons of documentation, tons 
> of "plugins" for almost every programming language you may think of, and 
> is reasonably fast;

Ugly key bindings? What's wrong with <Ctrl><x><Ctrl><c> ? It much easier
than typing <Esc><x>save-buffers-kill-emacs<CR> . :-)

>                   ; as vi, you definitely must use it everyday if you 
> want to use it at all: if you stop for a couple of months, you will 
> never remember even which keys must be pressed to open a file...

In emacs it's <Ctrl><x><Ctrl><f>. In vi it's :e whatever_the_filename_is

>                                                                  emacs 
> can be installed to work in a text console, so it is available even i 
> single user mode;

Vi is good to know when memory is limited or over a bad dial up line.

</humor>

Some other editors are, gedit (requires X), joe, and elvis. The are
a lot more but I don't know them all. I just stick to vi and emacs.
I can use either one to offend the others users. :-)

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