Linux text editors

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> --On Monday, September 13, 2004 8:58 PM -0700 Adam Boettiger
> <adam.boettiger at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> I see you want to start a religious war! ;)

my holy knights stand ready to defend vim's honor.  great for c coding,
doesn't require X, and comes installed by default on almost every 'nix
system (well, vi at least).