Text editor recommendations

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Aryan Ameri <info at ameri.me> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 07:05 +0000, madanabhat27 at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I was wondering which is the text editor you'd recommend for me,
> considering that I'm a TOTAL newbie to linux and having JUST migrated from
> MS Windows Vista Business where I was using notepad.. Some of my friends
> recommended vim and others recommended emacs but I'm a bit confused as to
> which one to pick,
> > Yours,
> > KMB
>
>
> Asking people for text editor recommendations on a mailing list? This is
> the stuff of flamewars. Legendary ones at that. In linux-land, your text
> editor is kind of like your religion, people are very protective of
> their choice ;-)
>
>
Lol !! Agree completely to this. I'm surprised none of the Emac fanboys have
replied yet ;-) (bait 1 !!)


> As a newbie, I'd say a simple GUI text editor like Gedit (if you use
> Gnome) or Kate (if you use KDE) would suffice for most things. On the
> other hand, time spent on learning vim is time well spent.
>
> emacs, I still can't get my head around it. I'm sure it's good, cause
> many people swear by it. Not me. I like my text editor, simple.
>
>
Emacs is very powerful too. It's just a bit handful for me with all the
Ctrl- ket presses (bait 2 ;-))

Thanks,
Raseel.
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