Re: [UUG/MLUG] simple text editor

[Steve Bohm <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Try using PICO.  It's a full-screen text editor.  I like it a lot.. lots of
keyboard shortcuts so it's real handy to use.  I dunno if there's a man
page on it or not, but you can try ("man pico").

Steve


Jeff Thomas wrote:

> I recently made the switch to Linux from Windoze.  (hooray)  One of the
> programs I use more than anything is a simple text editor, mainly for
> HTML.  I can't find one I like on Linux.  Emacs is way more complicated
> than I need.  Vi might be OK, if I learned how to use it effectively.
> But I prefer something at least vaguely graphic (I guess it's the
> windoze in me).  gEdit would be OK except it seems to crash a lot even
> by windoze standards... I don't know what the problem is there.
> gnotepad+ might be OK too, but it has HTML-specific stuff, which I
> really don't want or need.  Plus, both suffer from the problem of
> wrapping text to the window width, instead of allowing infinite lines
> needed for HTML.  I was unimpressed by the KDE editors too.  On windoze,
> I was quite fond of the PFE (Programmer's File Editor) program.  It was
> like Notepad, but allowed infinite file size, infinite number of files
> open at once, and many nice things beyond Notepad.  Much to my dismay, I
> just discovered today that the author has ditched development :(  Of
> course, it's a windoze program, so the source code isn't available
> (well, *nothing* is available now).  If I ever learn how to program (er,
> I mean *when*), my first venture will be to port PFE to Linux ;)
>
> Anyway, there's tons of text editors out there; I was just hoping
> someone knew of a particular editor that might fit my needs.  It would
> be much appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> -jeff