Looking for a good Linux text editor

[T Roosevelt]

I have Textpad for Windows and love it, but I haven't configured Wine yet, so that's out. Any recommendations?

[lcordero]

1. I've never had a problem with Vi, nano, gedit or pico

[gold_bug]

2. I was using nedit the other day,

it's a nice little editor. But I don't use Unix very often so I just try to find the most basic editor available -- I'm not really sure what else there is. I use pico at the CLI because I'm too lazy to learn vi or emacs.

[benburch]

3. Nedit

http://www.nedit.org/

You'll love it.

[jmowreader]

4. Is emacs available?

Emacs is the best.

[Xithras]

5. I use Pico

Dunno why, I know that there are many better CLI text editors out there, but I somehow got started using Pico and just never stopped.

[theorist]

6. I use "emacs" almost exclusively, but occasionally "ed"

for editing single lines at a time. "ed" is ancient, and not very user friendly, but the stream editor "sed" that spawned off of it is incredibly powerful for dealing with large files.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. I use vi almost all the time, but I'm a mutant geek from Hell.

Humans might be more comfy with mcedit (part of the Midnight Commander package).

[Ellen Forradalom]

vi works for me

but then a vi enthusiast taught me early in my computing career--and I've been a vi user ever since.

[theorist]

8. Does that mean you have written your own shells and can

program in assembly? I like the avatar, by the way.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. No and yes.

Why would I write my own shell when there's the totally kickass bash? And yes, I do have huge assembly language experience. (up to the 386/486 level, no MMX or 3DNow! or other recent fancies)

On edit: my avatar is GPL. Feel free to leech it.

[Mike Niendorff]

10. straight text?

For straight text, there's no beating Xemacs (imho).
But if you're looking for general word-processing, you might also want to check out Abiword.



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[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. I don't think any of the mentioned editors has any bigotry coded in.

They'd be probably equally good at editing gay text. (Sorry, couldn't resist. The devil made me do it. :evilgrin:)

[theorist]

12. hehehehe....

So did T Roosevelt find this thread useful?

[PaveThePlanet]

13. Joe is pretty simple

a lot of my über-geek (I haven't achieved that level yet) friends like 'vi' but it's too involved for me