Whats the best text editor?

SeanOchoa · Posted: Mon May 27, 2002 9:00 pm Post subject: Whats the best text editor?

I have tried open office, and gedit, and emacs, but wanted to know, what is the best text editor in Linux?

EDIT: Title was "Whats the best gui text editor?" -- pjp
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dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

Openoffice is a wordprocessor (and more). Too bloated to be useful for coding or other textediting.
Kate is my favourite editor. Fast and easy to use, has a very neat gui and you can enhance it with nice plugins.

It is part of kdebase.

Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 944 Location: USA

AbiWord, StarOffice, OpenOffice or Nedit.
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ElCondor · Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 8:04 am Post subject:

Staroffice, Openoffen, Abiword are more like word-processing programs than text-editors. As a really text-editor I use
*vi* for console (vim even with syntax highlighting)
nedit (simple gui, fast, syntax highlighting, common keyboard shortcuts)
xemacs (the mighty one that can do anything)

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count · Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 2:34 pm Post subject:

I really like Kate for programming. I like the way it handles opening multiple files and the syntax highlighting.

I like emacs for working with config files. Its fast, easy to use, and does qutie a bit.

I like AbiWord for word processing. Its full featured and works quite well.

It really depends on what your editing.

If I had to choose an all around great text editor I'd have to choose emacs.
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lasa · Posted: Tue May 28, 2002 3:01 pm Post subject:

I've always been an (x)emacs fan and it is still my premier choice for programming, which in my case is mostly Java. I also used it for LaTeX until I found KDE and kate. Nothing beats kate and kdvi when it comes to LaTeX editing!

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alec · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 270 Location: Here

For editing code or config files, I love (g)vim. Highlighting and searching are great. If I'm just doing a text file, kedit is nice and clean.

Quanta is a great HTML editor.

I keep KOffice, AbiWord, and OpenOffice on my system just for sake of compatibiliity and trying out the newest versions. I adopt whichever prints better and has better export filters so I can take it to a Windows environment if need be. Right now it's KOffice, but I'm probably going back to AbiWord because KOffice can't do outlines.

I cannot stand emacs, personally. :)

lx · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 11:29 pm Post subject:

emacs all the way, but well its difficult to learn all short-cuts, but in the end this will aid in better performance, using the mouse everytime it just aiding in RSI :lol:

, I love emacs, but for most users I would recommend AbiWord (not openoffice (too slow, but great with microsoft files)), recommend, um that's a big word I don't even have it compiled myself.

Should 've minded my own business, lX
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craftyc · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 443 Location: Behind You.

I keep it nice and simple. Nano for console (may switch to vim) and kedit for gui based.
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mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

IMHO vim and gvim are the best. Simplicty and elegance.
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leej · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 280

Seconded. vim & gvim for sure.

If the original poster hasn't used it before, they should click through to the articles section and read Daniel Robbins "VIM Cheat Sheet" article. The beauty of vim is the sheer speed at which you can get things done - once you've learnt the keys of course.

Daunting at first I suppose (I can't remember that far back ;o)) but well worth it in the end.

Belthezar · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 28 Location: Ohio, USA

Another vote for VIM and GVIM. I was so happy when I discovered I could use GVIM on windows as well!

The concept of a two mode editor is of course very confusing to someone used to a notepad style editor, but if you spend the time to get used to it, you'll find you can't hardly live without VIM. It's syntax hi-lighting is also just plain awesome, and my favorite feature for sure. I use it for doing all of my web stuff (php/mysql) and it's just amazing to me that it always knows what the difference is between valid php functions, and ones I make up myself. That's just one teensy example of how smart it's syntax hi-lighting is. And all I had to do is type in "syntax on" and it does the rest of knowing what kind of code I'm currently typing!

The first thing I did after hitting stage3 with my new gentoo box was "emerge vim"

jtanner · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 3:11 am Post subject:

xemacs for programming and general editing chores.

vi for when xemacs is broken/not installed.

Don't know about word processing--I'm forced to use MSWord. Fortunately, Word2K doesn't crash as much as older versions, and seems to get the job done...

Jim

masseya · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 4:36 pm Post subject: gvim rules..

Here's yet another vote for g/vim. It's a really simple elegant editor. I use Abiword for my M$ compatible docs though. If you are interested in using vim for coding, I would like to recommend SuperTab because it rocks. (It's a script that allows tab completion of things like variable names.)
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timseal · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Philadelphia

I like Scite for coding, it seems to be good at just about everything. Jedit is another good one, lots of plugins and way more responsive than you'd expect for a Java app

tim

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

Cant believe someone hasn't mentioned gnotepad+.
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c_kuzmanic · Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 1:31 am Post subject:

Quanta. Very configurable, very easy. No port for Kde 3.x yet though.

niyogi · Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2002 2:55 am Post subject:

any of you guys try anjuta? emerge anjuta... very cool editor imho

jaktcat · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2002 Posts: 5

Everybody should try jEdit (www.jedit.org).
Tim said that it is good already.
It's really great.
I take it with me everywhere I go, even in picnics :-)

jigma · n00b Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 51 Location: NZ

I used (g)vim for a while with the "cream" config...was very tidy.

I am now trying scite and I gotta say.... I do like it.

kang · Retired Dev Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 60

just tried scite and nedit
so
vim still rocks da bells haha

metalhedd · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 6:27 pm Post subject: `

I just emerge quanta theres is kde3 support now. and for web development its perfect. i love the built in language reference for html css php etc. very cool.

fyerk · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 6:33 pm Post subject:

vim or gvim with a proper [g]vimrc file has proven to be the best text editor for me

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helmers · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 6:56 pm Post subject:

I used jed on slackware, but it's not set up that way in gentoo... Does anyone know of something that behaves like nano, but with color highlights and maybe a little stash?

Other than that, Kate is great, love that integrated terminal.

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ebrostig · Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2002 7:32 pm Post subject:

As a lot of people have mentioned before, it really depends on what you need to do.

Most of the times I use vi, but I also use Kedit, which I prefer big time over Kate. I use Kedit mostly as a cut, edit and paste tool.

When I'm programming in SQL or PL/SQL I prefer Nedit.

Erik