Linux text editors

Andrea Giuliano a.giuliano at iccu.sbn.it
Tue Sep 14 08:34:33 UTC 2004


It heavily depends on your needs.

* vi, vim and gvim are quite good for everyday administration, and if 
you are a sysadmin you definitely have to know how to use them, because 
they most likely would be the only kind of editor available on a rescue 
CD or in single user mode;

* gedit or whatever is its counterpart on KDE is easier but less 
powerful; also, the won't work on a text console;

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

* jedit, nice, but heavy, forget it on older hardware. It needs X to 
work, so it's not intended for the sysadmin.

This list could continue with at least 100 more items, some of which are 
already in this thread...

Best regards.

Adam Boettiger wrote:
> I searched the archives of this list under "text editor" and found no 
> results, so am asking...
> 
> In Mac OSX there is a text editor called BBEdit 
> http://www.barebones.com/ that is absolutely phenominal for text editing 
> and coding.
> 
> In Windows there is TextPad http://www.textpad.com/.
> 
> The built-in text editor that comes with Fedora does not come close to 
> either of these. What else can I YUM for that will?
> 
> TIA
> 
> AB
> 
> 

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