Text editor recommendations

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On 10/21/2009 12:26 AM, Aryan Ameri 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 ;-)
> 
> 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.

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considering that I'm a TOTAL newbie to linux
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For the folks that are recommending vim; I'd recommend gvim for this
user instead.

@KMB: My first choice (as recommended by Aryan) is gedit
(Applications|Accessories|Text Editor) or Kate (KDE) for general use.
For vim I'd recommend that you try GVim (or Evim) first. This provides a
GUI front-end to vim so that you can easily become familiar with vim &
the Help section includes the full manual + tutorial. After you're
comfortable with that, then I'd give vim in a terminal a try.

See:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VimHowto

In that you are just getting started, you should bookmark this as well:
https://help.ubuntu.com/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community