[OT] Good GUI Text Editor

[Bill Stoye]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 10:45 +0100, Jan Kokoska wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 13:11 -0400, Brett Kirksey wrote:
> > I know there is a religious war over the best command line text editor, so I'm almost afraid to ask this question. But . . .

One of my many installations, trying to find the perfect Linux
distribution, introduced me to 'Nano'(maybe Gentoo) as the default
editor and was needed to complete the installation, I've used it for a
while and came to like it over 'kate' and another that escapes me.

Two weeks(+) ago, wanting to simplify life, I installed Ubuntu; their
menu has as default 'gedit', it's in keeping with the Ubuntu's keep
things simple and it works, gets what I have to do, done!

They also provide, for those with more experience 'emacs'(GUI) and
'vim'; each of those has, for me, a steep learning curve. For instance I
can't even exit vim:  "type  :q<Enter>   to exit"
But it doesn't, so I have stuff to learn, 'emacs and 'vim' are on the
list but there is so much to learn, I'm afraid they are on the back
burner. From my reading about them, they are the power users tools.

Anyway, a few of my thoughts on text editors as someone with a low level
of know how.

Bill

> 
> Try jedit, the programmer's editor in Java (useful for many languages
> though, unlike eclipse which is very Java-centric).
> 
> This is what I would use regularly if I didn't prefer CLI text editors,
> namely jed with Emacs mode.
> 
> Jan
> 
>