Linux text editors

John Thompson JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Tue Sep 14 12:11:18 UTC 2004


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?

Which built-in editor is that?  "vim" (console) or "gvim" (GUI) are very 
full-featured.


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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)





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