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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => Unix / Linux Discussion => Topic started by: Krazed on June 14, 2005, 09:27:13 am

Title: Text Editors
Post by: Krazed on June 14, 2005, 09:27:13 am: What's your preference when it comes to text editors in linux?

I use pico, and sometimes, barley ever, emacs.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: RoMi on June 14, 2005, 09:34:37 am: I use vi, becasue iago gave me the 5 sec. tutorial. Its also the only one OpenBSD comes with by default.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: Joe on June 14, 2005, 09:37:01 am: pico!
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: iago on June 14, 2005, 10:42:33 am: vi, vim, elvis. Original vi is the most fun, but I prefer vim with syntax highlighting and auto indenting and stuff.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: Ergot on June 14, 2005, 12:48:41 pm: vi or vim I don't really care. Use to be pico but then I changed my mind. Har.

/me blames iago for pointing me in right directons :[!
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: Quik on June 14, 2005, 09:52:11 pm: vi, vim, winvi, or (rarely ever), pico.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: mynameistmp on June 15, 2005, 02:36:42 am: emacs during an X session. i'll use vim if i'm going CL mode
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: iago on June 15, 2005, 08:10:54 am: Quote from: mynameistmp on June 15, 2005, 02:36:42 am
emacs during an X session. i'll use vim if i'm going CL mode

My list of "Things To Do Before I Die" includes learning emacs.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: deadly7 on June 15, 2005, 11:03:02 pm: emacs is another text editor? How hard could it be to learn if it is?
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: iago on June 16, 2005, 07:41:42 am: If you think learning how to use a text editor is always easy, you've obviously never learned vi.

emacs probably isn't horribly difficult, it's just learning how to use it and how it works that's tricky.

Also, to use emacs to its fullest, I'd like to learn how to make extensions for it which are written in Lisp.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: deadly7 on June 16, 2005, 02:20:15 pm: I don't have Linux.. I've used VI before though (once). didn't seem TOO hard for me, but then I only used it for about two minutes.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: mynameistmp on June 16, 2005, 04:15:20 pm: Quote
Also, to use emacs to its fullest, I'd like to learn how to make extensions for it which are written in Lisp.

Technically they are written in Emacs Lisp, which is different than Common Lisp ;P Emacs Lisp is much simpler than Common Lisp, although standard emacs distributions offer an optional extension file that adds much of Common Lisps functionality to Emacs Lisp.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: Joe on June 16, 2005, 04:35:18 pm: I forgot to mention that I also use gedit. =)
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: iago on June 16, 2005, 06:59:20 pm: Quote from: mynameistmp on June 16, 2005, 04:15:20 pm
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Also, to use emacs to its fullest, I'd like to learn how to make extensions for it which are written in Lisp.

Technically they are written in Emacs Lisp, which is different than Common Lisp ;P Emacs Lisp is much simpler than Common Lisp, although standard emacs distributions offer an optional extension file that adds much of Common Lisps functionality to Emacs Lisp.

I know it's not standard Lisp. But that wasn't important enough to the subject to mention, I figured :P
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: Blaze on June 16, 2005, 07:28:04 pm: Would KWrite count or is my definition of a text editor wrong? :P
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: zorm on June 17, 2005, 06:28:25 pm: I most often use nano(pico) because im just changing something in a config file or such and have no real need for super fancy features. If im forced to code something ill use the VIs, but I prefer to do all my coding in IDEs.
Title: Re: Text Editors
Post by: Joe on June 17, 2005, 06:44:18 pm: I code Java in Eclipse (yes, I do it over VNC if I need to do it on Pie. Being a 56ker makes you very lag tollerant), and in pico sometimes. For writing ASM code, which I've never done on Pie, I use UltraEdit-32, a simple text editor, so I'd probably use pico on a *nix box.