Linux text editors

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-09-14 09:54, Neil Cherry whipped out a trusty #2 pencil 
and scribbled:

> 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. :-)
>
One of the nice things about Nice Editor (ne) is that at about 320 KB it 
can easily fit on a floppy, so even if you have to boot in rescue mode, 
you can have an alternative to vi.  vim is over 2000 KB and won't fit on 
a floppy.  Of course, I like emacs myself, but at a sveldt 65 MB it's 
more than 5 times bigger than my first (5 MB) hard drive!

-- 
Fritz Whittington
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