[OT] Good GUI Text Editor

[Bill Stoye]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 15:00 +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 05:46:29 -0700, Bill Stoye <skiffworks at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > 
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> > 
> 
> I quite like bluefish programming editor.  
> 
> Ben
Installed bluefish; looks quite nice. How do I get it to show up in the
menu?
Bill