Specific programming text editor needed

iusebash · n00b Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 70

I need a programming text editor. But I have some specific requirements.

- Has to be small. So that probably breaks it down to run-in-terminal ones.

- Provides real-time programming colors. Not the ones that will only show color codes when I open the file again.

- Gives me some kind of sign that a piece of code is broken in the script. I am sure I will be getting a lot of broken codes, so I would like to know which part specifically I need to fix.

So is there something that meets my specification?

M1Sports20 · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:19 am Post subject:

maybe you want to give vi a try. It supports many file formats and programming languages. However it does have a bit of learning curve.

iusebash · n00b Joined: 21 May 2006 Posts: 70

I wanted to give it a try, but there is no application named 'vi' in portage.

davidgurvich · Veteran Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 1063

The actual application is vim. That stands for vi improved. I understand version 7 has a lot of programming language support. However, I suggest you look at the other venerable editor, emacs. The learning curve is similar to vi and there are all sorts of programming modules.

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 3:30 am Post subject:

Uh oh... let the vi <-> emacs flame war begin.

Wasn't one of the old flames: EMACS - Eight Megabytes Almost Continuously Swapping
(doesn't really apply with todays hardware though)

Try both and see which you find easier.
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