Text editors

[wossname]

I'm a VIM user myself, I think its the best editor available on Linux and will be for a long time.

What do you lot use and why?

Discuss.

[mightor]

I'm a VIM user myself, I think its the best editor available on Linux and will be for a long time.

What do you lot use and why?

Discuss.

There are other editors besides Vi[m]?
I use vi[m] on UNIX/Linux and gvim on Windows, except inside Visual Studio.
A really good book to get the most out of vi[m] is Learning the vi Editor. It was one of the best books I ever bought.

Gr,
Mightor

[CyberSurfer]

I'm vi all the way as well, mainly because I work with a lot of different systems and it's the only editor guaranteed to be on all of them!!

[mendhak]

I like text editors which are intuitive to use. So I can press, say, Ctrl+S to save a file. Rather than Shift+ZZ, no matter how cool it looks.

[kregg]

nano, because it's the free version of pico.

At least I can press [CTRL]+[ALT]+[DEL] without restarting the damn pc!

[CyberSurfer]

nano, because it's the free version of pico.

At least I can press [CTRL]+[ALT]+[DEL] without restarting the damn pc!

Why else would you want to press Ctrl+Alt+Del?

[mightor]

nano, because it's the free version of pico.

At least I can press [CTRL]+[ALT]+[DEL] without restarting the damn pc!

The reason CTRL-ALT-DEL was chosen was because it's a key combo you're not likely to use for anything else. As for rebooting your comp with it, that hasn't been the case since Windows NT. Hitting it in your console on a Linux box does reboot it, albeit cleanly with a nice init 6, even as a normal user. I realise this can be disabled quite easily, but isn't the case on most standard setups.
So if you could explain what you meant with your statement, I am sure you will have a captive audience here, we're all curious.

Gr,
Mightor

[sunburnt]

Generally I use emacs when I'm going to have the editor open for a while (for example when coding) and vi when I need to edit something quickly from the command line.

The reason I prefer emacs for coding is pretty much because it's what I've always used and I'm used to it.

I build my own version from CVS with Gtk, freetype and XFT to get anti-aliased truetype font support which looks pretty.

[wossname]

xterm is antialiased by default in gnome

[sunburnt]

xterm is antialiased by default in gnome

And that's great if I want to run 'emacs -nw' or vim instead of emacs or gvim, but I don't always want my editor to be in a terminal.

[CyberSurfer]

Why not? Everyone knows real men use terminals..

[sunburnt]

Why not? Everyone knows real men use terminals..

I know you're probably being facetious, but I will respond anyway.

Show me how you can select and delete a section of text from vim/emacs-nox using the mouse. Show me how you can change the cursor position by clicking with the mouse.

you can't do either, because neither emacs nor vim has console mouse support.

A terminal is a great thing, and I use it all the time, but my text editor shouldn't always have to live there.

[CyberSurfer]

You're right, I was indeed being facetious!

That notwithstanding, most text editors like vi provide sufficient functionality that you can do pretty much anything you can do with a mouse, providing you know the correct commands. Given that vi is my primary editor, I often find myself using it in a terminal instead of using one of the GUI editors because even with the lack of a mouse I find I can work quicker in vi.

I'm not evangelising terminal mode text editors (again, was being facetious ), it really comes down to which tool fits best with the environment you work in. The bulk of my day is spent working with *nix systems via terminals so I use vi. If I worked in a GUI more I'm sure I would use gvim or similar...anything that isn't KEdit, possibly the most annoying editor in the world.

[TomGibbons]

Generally I use emacs when I'm going to have the editor open for a while (for example when coding) and vi when I need to edit something quickly from the command line.

The reason I prefer emacs for coding is pretty much because it's what I've always used and I'm used to it.

I build my own version from CVS with Gtk, freetype and XFT to get anti-aliased truetype font support which looks pretty.

Ooo I like the theme. Beryl? Which theme is that?

[sunburnt]

Ooo I like theme. Beryl? Which theme is that?

If you're talking about the window borders, yup, it's a beryl theme. I took the theme "dark_blue" and set the opacity level on all the window border settings to be 78% or so.

[kregg]

The reason CTRL-ALT-DEL was chosen was because it's a key combo you're not likely to use for anything else. As for rebooting your comp with it, that hasn't been the case since Windows NT. Hitting it in your console on a Linux box does reboot it, albeit cleanly with a nice init 6, even as a normal user. I realise this can be disabled quite easily, but isn't the case on most standard setups.
So if you could explain what you meant with your statement, I am sure you will have a captive audience here, we're all curious.

Gr,
Mightor

Woah... that's heavy...


I wasn't expecting that...


Seems like mate you're the only one interested, so I won't bother

[tr333]

I use vi/vim because you can find it on almost any linux/unix system you are likely to encounter, including iPodLinux and tomsrtbt - The most GNU/Linux on one floppy!

if you can't use vim, then there's always ed/red (reduced ed) or cat+echo