what editor do you use (nano, emacs, vi, nedit etc)

MonkeyMartin · Apprentice Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 272 Location: Canada

what editor do you use

what woud be a good editor for perl
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Corw|n of Amber · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:51 am Post subject:

I use gvim.

No idea what to use for perl, but gvim is fine for each and every language (I'm self-learning c++ now).
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deadaim · Guru Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 467 Location: Florida

I use vim. Of course I'm not an expert at it yet, but practice makes perfect!

Telamon · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Dec 2003 Posts: 129

I like joe for the command line and Scite for X-Windows. Scite is pretty crumby in it's file handling, and you have to reconfigure it by editing the global ini files as root, but it's code editing engine (scintilla) is awesome.

And joe is like mini-Emacs, so you know it's cooler than all that vi garbage. ;-)

Corky · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:43 am Post subject:

It's vim or scite for me, there both excellent for any text related task (scite especially for programming), it just depends on my mood which I choose at a particular time :wink:

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CheshireCat · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 572

Vi, or occasionally Kate (convenient for lots of files open at once, and has easy access to source-code-manipulation functions like indent selected, comment selected, etc).

c4Ff3In3 4ddiC+ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Aug 2003 Posts: 110

Vim for configuration files.

Quanta Plus for PHP and HTML.

Kate for Python, Perl, etc.

airhead · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:13 am Post subject:

I use nano

If I had to choose something else I'd probably go for emacs but since nano is included with most distritbutions, I haven't bothered learning emacs yet.

loseruser · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:20 am Post subject:

Emacs all the way. But I use emacs for as much as I can.

Don't want to start a holy war, but this is a pretty good site http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/

S_aIN_t · Guru Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 488 Location: Ottawa

i use gVim when i am in X and vim over ssh. seems to work ok. :)
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inode77 · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 7:56 am Post subject:

vim with all the nice add features and config syntax color highlighting profiles ;-)

only way to go (emacs is nice too but normally to big to be installed everwhere)

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Raoul_Duke · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:29 am Post subject:

Chalk another one up for nano

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