Your Favorite Text Editor

[DavidMD]

Hello, everyone.

I am taking a survey of peoples' favorite text editor -- especially for programming.

I have been using JEdit, KEdit, and NEdit, but I have not yet decided on my "main editor," so I would appreciate your advice. (I have used Kate a bit, too. As you can tell, I am running KDE.) ;)

Thank you very much, in advance! :)

Cordially,

David
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http://ddickerson.igc.org/

P.S. -- I hope this topic is not "flame bait"; rather, I hope it is informative for everyone. :D

[DragonHead]

Most of the programming I do does not reside on the "box" I'm sitting at. They are on servers over in the "machine room". Hence, I don't use stuff like kedit.

I have alway been a fan of good ol'e vi.

[garskoci]

vi

[Fryguy8]

I use vim right now.

[hfawzy]

My favorite is Anjuta (http://www.anjuta.org).

[DavidMD]

Hello, everyone.

Thank you for your responses. :)

Actually, I am in the process of learning vi (vim). One of the reasons that I am doing so is because vi is a default installation on most Linux/UNIX distributions. If I need a text editor and cannot go through the GUI, then knowing vi will clearly be an asset.

Anjuta is an IDE for C/C++ for GTK/GNOME, isn't it? Can it be used to develop "vanilla" Linux applications or KDE applications? I have read many good things about Anjuta.

Thanks, everyone!

Cordially,

David
--
http://ddickerson.igc.org/

[myshkin]

i use vi. it isnt my favourite editor, i think the commands are stupid. but its the only one i know so...:)

[tanna]

I think it's be emacs and also xemacs, the only two I've tried. I'm just learning C++ programming so I need good stuff and ultilites and tools to use, anything better, I would like to be informed of. :)

[thirtythree]

emacs, although I've never used anything else except for pico. I must say, etags is the cat's meow when it comes to coding in C with tons of functions scattered all over the place. I don't know if other editors have that feature, but I can say that I won't be ditching emacs unless I find another editor that has something similar to etags.

[zdude255]

I program locally so I use Kate

It has very handy syntax highlighting, note the file selector/browser and the full xterm.

The syntax highlighting has almost 100 modes. Java, C, C++, C#, Pascal, Basic, HTML, XML, Makefile anything you could dream of.

I'll attach a screenshot so you can see.

[sclebo05]

for editing system files and whatnot i use kate. for hardcore programming, i use jedit. it fetches its own plugins (which are the best i have ever seen) and has excellent syntax highlighting. i use mine primarily for java developement and i have a theme/plugin combination that lets me crank out the code. and since it is written in java itself, it blows my mind.:cool:

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

I would put in my vote for vim.

It's got syntax highlighting for any programming language I've fooled around in (C, Python and bash scripts, primarily), and it is similar to the vi editor found in most unices.

If I can't use vim, I'll settle for vi. After all, if you know vim, you can at least trip your way around in vi, without macros and syntax editing.

[Fryguy8]

Kate is KDE/QT oriented, isn't it? It looks pretty sweet, but since I'm on the GTK side of things..

What else is out there for GUI editors like Kate?

[sclebo05]

when i have to use something less graphic intensive, i use the ever ugly emacs . the newer x based version has syntax highlighting, but again, its a bear to use.

[serz]

At the moment I'm ok with mcedit lol. I installed Bluefish some days ago and I didn't try it much.. but it's cool.

I gotta try vim and others, someday.

[Stween]

emacs.

emacs all the way. One day, I will try out that Anjuta editor-thing, but emacs does everything for me that I need, and feels nicer than just about any other editor I've used for editing code.

[Bills_a_bub]

Originally posted by DavidMD
Actually, I am in the process of learning vi (vim). One of the reasons that I am doing so is because vi is a default installation on most Linux/UNIX distributions. If I need a text editor and cannot go through the GUI, then knowing vi will clearly be an asset.

Amen brother!

Whatcha gonna do when you have to rescue your box because a file got hosed and you have to edit it?

For example, you forget your root password (it happens :o ) and you have to modify and save the password file so you can set a new password.

Besides, I'm crusty. I've been using vi for a dozen years or so now. [mr. burns] All that newfangled graphical text editing stuff makes my jowls ache! [/mr. burns]

[Acidkewl]

I just use vi mostly. Its real basic and comes with everything. Isn't dependent on having X running. And you can most around quite fast once you get used to it. Although I'm using vim now to (can't tell the difference) because I'm using aterm.

[root.veg]

Nano.

It's a free (as in speech) re-write of Pico, the editor from the PINE mail program. Very, very simple.

I don't program beyond the odd short shell script, and the rest of my editing is all config files or composing e-mails. So I don't need Emacs or vi normally. Although I would probably use Emacs if I started programming properly.

But I've learned the basics in vi just in case!

[DavidMD]

Hello, everyone. :)

Thank you very much for your answers. I am running KDE, so I have started using Kate some.

Yesterday evening, I downloaded the V Integrated Development Environment (http://www.objectcentral.com/vide.htm), which is free and works with 'gcc' and Java.

I have not yet, however, installed it.

Cordially,

David
--
http://ddickerson.igc.org/

[Gertrude]

Joe

[Stween]

Originally posted by Gertrude
Joe

I used to use joe. I discoevered it one day when I screwed up X on my system a little, and needed a pretty simple text editor that I didn't have to learn piles of key bindings to get to work just to edit a couple of lines in /etc/XF86Config, and joe was what I found.

It's quite nice, as simple editors go, and I still use it sometimes when I don't want to load up the bulk that is emacs (or learn how to use vi ;) )

[The Mas]

Originally posted by sclebo05
for editing system files and whatnot i use kate. for hardcore programming, i use jedit. it fetches its own plugins (which are the best i have ever seen) and has excellent syntax highlighting. i use mine primarily for java developement and i have a theme/plugin combination that lets me crank out the code. and since it is written in java itself, it blows my mind.:cool:

I've long been a vi and emacs user, and for as long as I can remember there have been religious wars about both of them.

Vi is still as fast and capable as it's ever been, and the now familiar Vim interface makes Vi within reach of anyone willing to invest a little time and effort. I recommend anyone serious about system tools to know at least the basics of Vi.

Emacs, to me, is one of the best overall development tools. It is useful for general text editing, writing thesis, Email, programs, and just about anything else. If you only use one tool, I'd choose Emacs.

I probably still use Emacs overall for more editing than any other tool.

However, I've developed a fondness for NEdit. When you're composing text, it's really easy and trivial to format text using NEdit. I often use it as an alternative to Emacs when I'm writing plain text that I intend to copy and paste into Email messages.

I've not really experimented a lot with JEdit, but from all I can tell, with its plugin architecture, it makes a really good overall text editor, too.

In fact, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend any of these four editors. I probably still use Emacs more than the others, simply because I've used it successfully for a long time and it meets my needs very well.

[bosox79]

Originally posted by zdude255
I program locally so I use Kate

It has very handy syntax highlighting, note the file selector/browser and the full xterm.

The syntax highlighting has almost 100 modes. Java, C, C++, C#, Pascal, Basic, HTML, XML, Makefile anything you could dream of.

I'll attach a screenshot so you can see.

I prefer kate also:cool:

[threadhead]

Originally posted by bosox79
I prefer kate also:cool:

my favorite is mcedit. ;)
but ive been searching the web for kate and didnt find any valuable download links, can anyone of you please post a link to a kate source package?

thank you

[bosox79]

Originally posted by threadhead
my favorite is mcedit. ;)
but ive been searching the web for kate and didnt find any valuable download links, can anyone of you please post a link to a kate source package?

thank you

I just did a quick google.com/linux search & all I have come across is the source rpm. have you looked at the kde source for your distro?
here are the results on my google search http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=kate+source+package&btnG=Google+Search

[threadhead]

Originally posted by bosox79
I just did a quick google.com/linux search & all I have come across is the source rpm. have you looked at the kde source for your distro?
here are the results on my google search http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=kate+source+package&btnG=Google+Search

i am not quite sure if the rpm's will work for me because i am using fluxbox not kde.
yesterday i found out how good gvim is ;)
but thanks for the links.

[MB[DK]]

I use mcedit for everything, it's cool.

[thread_killer]

I used nano and pico for a long time for most things.....vi sometimes, if I needed some of the 'sepcial' features. Recently I discovered Jed and I love it. I've probably only been using it for a about a week and a half, but I don't think I've used anything else since.

[clim]

in my opinion

1. Vim

2. Emacs

The Lebron James of Editors (Most Promising)

3. THE

http://humane.sourceforge.net/the/download.html

[threadhead]

Originally posted by MB[DK]
I use mcedit for everything, it's cool.

so do you know how i can paste text in mcedit, that has been copied from the browser for example?